Wow. I’m really just learning so much from this! Every time I check back in here, I gaze spellbound at the new pictures for a while and then excitedly review the previous ones again and again :bounce:. This is becoming more than just another random thread- it’s a public service!
Thanks…
Sabrina[color=White], thank you. I really look forward to see what you develop from these examples. Who has interested you most at the moment?
Lolo, awww, thanks. You got me started on this…I’m so glad you’re enjoying it.
Mychael, very sweet of you to say. Fortunately, there is so much wonderful work out there, I should be able to keep it up for a while.
Vivien, glad to have you here…thanks for subscribing.
So this is one of my very favorite illustrators, Gustave Klimt.
Look at these cool mermaids.
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and then of covers I do own, I am a collector of Lawson Wood. His animals are a pure joy and real inspiration to me.
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Thanks for stopping in.
Cris
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Hi…Cris…Just wanted to tell you that this thread is really brightening up my mornings…great way to start the day…
That last painting really put a smile on my face, and brought back a great memory…used to have a double yellow head amazon parrot, and a small parakeet who used to fight over the food in the same manner as that painting shows…really funny action to watch…
Saw one of the king fishers yesterday…makes a real chattering kind of sound…desplayed it’s head crest feathers , then flew of…timid kind of bird. Quss I enterrupted it’s fishing…
THANKS for showing all this great art…really enjoying it…
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Thanks, Glenn, I’m really happy to hear that. Yeah, I really love kingfishers…would love to see/hear one first-hand.
I hope to have some time to paint this weekend, but have some samples I’m working up for a children’s magazine publisher (see my Sketchbook), so just have to balance everything.
But in the meantime…
Frank Brangwyn
The Dean of Illustrators, Dean Cornwell…several Disney artists, while I was there, always talked about Cornwell with much reverance. I found a copy of one of his books, but it was very expensive…now I’m sorry I didn’t buy it because it’s reallllly expensive now.
Enjoy!
Cris
If i may…a few more from The Dean.
I love the blimp and the wrinkle on the doc’s trousers and the way he studies the illumination in the shadow areas…and the specular highlight on the armour…what a legend.
Thanks Chris for pointing us in the direction!
Ah yes…love those old early to mid 20th century illustrations. Norman Rockwell is one of my favorites. Post some of those wont you?
Also how did you manage to get those images to show up in the thread. Whenever I attach my images they show up as a thumbnail you have to click. Thanks.
Keep up the cool illustration. It’s coming along nicely. My only crit at this point would be the hand. Take a snapshot of your hand in the desired pose and reference that.
Cheers,
-R
Hi! I just saw this thread at last after I started going through the WIP threads today. Love the variety of illustration inspiration you’ve posted here…many of which I had not yet run across.
Reminds me of a blog I ran across a month or so ago that posts work from artists and illustrators from the 40’s and 50’s - “Today’s Inspiration”. Here’s the link:
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/
I’m enjoying watching your progress on the bird lady, too.
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Nazirull[color=White], thanks for adding such great examples of Cornwell’s work.
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Rares[color=White], I’d be happy to post some Norman Rockwell. I have a huge book containing all his magazine covers. They are such great inspiration.
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One of the artists at Disney used this same setup and put Mickey and Minnie into the charming sunset silhouette.
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With setups like:
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And going to a different Rockwell...Rockwell Kent.
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I am redrawing the hand on my lady in Songbird. I did use my own hand as reference, but not as a photo, so I think I ended up doing one of the Picasso Cubist things where I changed the angle a few times...heh.
I host the images on my site so that I don’t hotlink to other sites and grab their bandwidth. If you do not have server space, Rebecca Kimmel posted this how-to on using Photobucket.com for posting images. Be aware, though, that they no longer allow nudes of any kind.
[i][b]Tatiana[/b][/i][color=White], thanks for stopping by. Cool blog...I've added it to my list of blogs.
I'm really happy to see so many people who are discovering artists, here, for the first time.
Cris
[/color]Yes Chris…this is the first time after a long time ive seen this kinna illustration. I was a little kid when i was attracted to these. I thought, Ooo…these must be old, the colors all fading out…!
Is it deliberate? or is it really aging? Color processing? Paper?
Tonight it is N.C. Wyeth. I love Wyeth’s strong sense of design and composition and remarkable portrayal of story.
Enjoy!
Cris
This is a wonderful thread, thank you Cris. I’ve been an admirer of the art nouveau movement for a while, but I’d not thought to looking a little later for what are some of the most wonderful paintings and illustrations I’ve seen in a long while. The second Layendecker piece for Arrow is by far and away my favourite of the lot. I’d just love to try my hand at something like that digitally, once I have my head around Painter again. Do you happen to know if there are any further online collections of his work? I love his use of colour and his stylisation of the 20s and 30s figure, and would like to research it a little more before trying something similar.
Hey Cris!
Great to see more inspirational illustrations, it’s amazing to discover some “new” artists, new at least for me:D …
Hard to say what I prefer with this wide range of styles, there are more single pieces from different artists catching my attention…but just to name 2 artists: from this aera I really love the art of Alphonse Mucha and - thinking of pen and pencil rendering - the work of Charles Dana Gibson:) .
Hope you find some time soon to show the progress with your Songbird…
-sabrina
I’d love to see what you do, Sam. You have some wonderful work in your portfolio. I especially like “Beautiful”.
Curtis Publishing has several pages of Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post covers. This has some great work by Joseph Christian (JC). Most people do not know that they were brothers, however. Frank (FX) was the younger brother whose work I also love.
I just saw you posted while I was responding, Sabrina. Pour vous:
Alfons Mucha
Charles Dana Gibson
I missed out on buying the Cornwell book, but I had the opportunity to buy a huge, two-volume first American printing of all of Charles Dana Gibsons work. It was a lot more than, at the time, I felt I should spend, but now when I take them out and look and the joy I receive from being able to see these beautiful reproductions…it was well worth it.
Cris
Thanks for the links, Cris, I love each brother’s work; they each have their own special touch. I really can’t wait to try this kind of style out. And as a contribution to the thread, here’s my second try at Mucha’s style (first being a hideous traversty), a pencil sketch that was to be a watercolour, but the thought of having to transfer all that again is making me seriously consider digital for the time being. Woman was referenced from one of the stock shots in Lockstock’s Gallery:
Hello, Matt.
Actually, Mucha has always been on my list to present examples on, but I am not doing this in order of what I like or anything. I don’t want to overwhelm the thread by doing too many illustrations at one time. Not only are there many, many artists during this glorious period of history which spans several generations, a couple of world-changing wars, and many changes in what people percieved as art, but there is a wealth of works with each artist.
If someone mentions an artist that they like that I have not shown anything on, I make an effort to go through my libraries or the internet to see what I can find.
I went through a period of time when I wanted any and all things I could find on Mucha. Researching Mucha opened the portal to Wyeth and Pyle and Leyendecker and Howard Christie and Arthur Rackham and Rose O’Neill and so many others. That is what I hope this thread does for others. Let them see familiar names and works and introduce them to unknowns.
I welcome and invite others to add any illustrators they like or find that they would like to share here.
I am especially pleased when someone like Sam posts his beautiful Mucha-inspired piece. Thanks, Sam.
Ok, well, today is humor. During the 20s, there was an illustrator, G.E. Studdy who had a very popular little dog, Bonzo. I adore humor. This little dog is so cute and so mischevious.
and this one is called, His Master’s Vice (a play on His Master’s Voice, the famous RCA illustration of their mascot)
Cris
“His Master’s Vice”…
That just made my day.
Zephyri: Lovely work! A really nice interpretation of the Mucha’s style- I do hope you post more as it develops.
[color=Lime]Cris: Am still soooooooo diggin’ this thread.
Peace.
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