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Dakota, or What’s a Heaven For? Brenda K. Marshall’s novel, Dakota, or What’s a Heaven For?, is set in 19th-century Dakota territory. The idea for the cover illustration was suggested by this evocative passage in the text: “The wagon turned off the.

Go Home Now, Your Wife Has Already Got All She Asked For In this collection of Grimm Tales, I wanted to create illustrations that are more like theatre posters rather than very detailed book illustrations. I thought the visual language of posters would.

Love Goes to Buildings on Fire I was asked to illustrate a jacket for a book subtitled Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. I set out to represent some of the musicians written about in the book, as well as to put them in an environment.

Smiling Dish It all started as a huge mistake. As an illustrator, I used the only tools I had to convince my son Yoel to eat. Every evening I prepared a new smiling dish for dinner. I’m not better than any other mom, I only wanted him to remember as.

Entega Calendar, 12 Tales from the World of Energy A total of 12 paintings were commissioned for a calendar by Entega, a German ecological energy company. Each month illustrated a myth or a lie about green energy and was accompanied by a beautifully.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Many cover illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novella (first published in 1886) feature one or the other of the iconic title characters. My top priority was to find a way to include both the respectable doctor.

Zombie in Love Mortimer is a zombie looking for love, and in this particular spread, he is feeling forlorn at home. I wanted to pack all kinds of little monster stuff in his house with him, and I felt that he needed a few pals to feel less lonely, so.

We Shared a Bear Suit Missed Connections, Love, Lost and Found, began as a personal illustration project in the form of a blog. Every day for the past three years I have gleaned the Missed Connections section of Craigslist for the funny, strange, tender,.

“In one swoop all my Flowers were torn up by the roots and lay about me—scattered, broken, trampled … ” From Ivan Turgenev’s novel First Love, for Sheri Gee of The Folio Society. The frame story opens with a brief scene in which three Russian gentlemen.

Monte Beauchamp is an award-winning art director and graphic designer whose work has appeared in Graphis, Communication Arts, SPDA, Print, American Illustration, and many editions of the Society of Illustrators Annual of American Illustration. He has.

A lifetime fine artist, Steve Henderson pursued a successful career in illustration before turning to fine art fulltime. His paintings are sold and displayed nationwide through exhibitions, shows, and galleries.About his art, Steve says: "I look.

The Hamilton King Award, created by Mrs. Hamilton King in memory of her husband through a bequest, is presented annually for the best illustration of the year by a member of the Society. The selection is made by former recipients of this award and may.

Though best known as a painter of incidents on the streets of New York, John Sloan began his career as an illustrator, and the lessons of illustration remained central to his practice. Between 1892 and 1915, illustration was Sloan’s primary means of.

Author and artist Edward St. John Gorey was a child prodigy, drawing pictures at the age of two, and reading (self-taught) by the time he was three. Excelling at school, he skipped some early grades and arrived at Chicago’s legendary Francis Parker School.

“Writing is always a dreadful, tiresome business and the worst of all tortures for me, because I am convinced that I am not a writer but a graphic workman, a painter who hangs pictures in a row, who collects imagery, and my problem is always to find.

Digital pioneer Nancy Stahl began her love of exploration when she was in high school, where, as the second best artist in her class, she drew posters for plays and events, and spent long hours in her room creating and experimenting with everything from.

Yet contrary to what one might expect of such a minimal line, Blechman’s every last pen stroke is purposely, often excruciatingly composed. He has been known to draw dozens of tiny squiggly noses, for instance, on adhesive-backed paper until the right.

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1960, Laszlo Gulyas graduated at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. Laszlo continued his studies as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts between 1983 and 1987. He has been member of the National Society of Hungarian.

John Currin (born 1962) is an American painter based in New York City. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. His work shows a wide range of influences,.

Don Maitz is an American science fiction, fantasy, and commercial artist. His most widely-known creation is the "Captain" character of the Captain Morgan brand of rum, although he is perhaps most notable for twice winning the Hugo Award for Best Professional.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter, who is widely acknowledged to be the most important artist of the 20th century. A long-lived and highly prolific artist, he experimented with a wide range of styles and themes throughout his career. Among.

by Miss Led (UK) missled.co.uk “I’m attracted to the theatrical and playful side of Paloma, which I kept in mind while creating the portrait. With the eyelashes being the heaviest area of the piece, they were to act as the pivotal part of the image..

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving,.

Fantastic art is a broad and loosely-defined art genre. It is not restricted to a specific school of artists, gerographical location or historical period. It can be characterised by subject matter - which portrays non-realistic, mystical, mythical or folkloric subjects.

Triptych - A three-part work of art; especially a painting, meant for placement on an altar, with three panels that fold together. Trompe-L’oeil - A French term meaning "deception of the eye." A painting or other work of two-dimensional art.

Stippling - A pattern of closely spaced dots or small marks used to create a sense of three-dimensionally on a flat surface, especially in drawing and printmaking. See also hatching, cross-hatching. Study - A detailed drawing or painting.

Romanticism - A movement in Western art of the 19th century generally assumed to be in opposition to Neoclassicism. Romantic works are marked by intense colors, turbulent emotions, complex composition, soft outlines, and sometimes heroic subject.

Primitive Art - Paintings and drawings of and by peoples and races outside the influence of accepted Western styles. Also, works by artists with a "naive" style often due to little, if any, training (or works intentionally made to look this way). Realism -.

Polychromatic - Having many colors, as opposed to monochromatic which means only one hue or color. Pop Art - A style of art which seeks its inspiration from commercial art and items of mass culture (such as comic strips, popular foods and.

Painterly - Descriptive of paintings in which forms are defined principally by color areas, not by lines or edges. Where the artist's brushstrokes are noticeable. Any image that looks as though it may have been created with the style or techniques.

Naturalistic - Descriptive of an artwork that closely resembles forms in the natural world. Synonymous with representational. Negative Space - The space in a painting around the objects depicted. Neoclassicism - “New” classicism - a.

Monotype - A one-of-a-kind print made by painting on a sheet or slab of glass and transferring the still-wet painting to a sheet of paper held firmly on the glass by rubbing the back of the paper with a smooth implement, such as a large hardwood.

Impressionism - An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. This style of painting is characterized by short.

Fine Art - An art form created primarily as an aesthetic expression to be enjoyed for its own sake. The viewer must be prepared to search for the intent of the artist as the all-important first step toward communication and active participation. Futurism -.

Abstract - A 20th century style of painting in which nonrepresentational lines, colors, shapes, and forms replace accurate visual depiction of objects, landscape, and figures. The subjects often stylized, blurred, repeated or broken down into basic.

Italia Ruotolo was born in Naples , Italy. He studied the classics of ancient Greece and Latin. Later he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples . For many years he worked as a goldsmith and designer. This had a great influence on his painting.

Canadian-born Russian , Alexander Shubin painter expresses his creative mind with a style and techniques developed living and painting in a single Europe , but is always looking for a new and original way to express themselves in art. Alex used in his.