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Table accessories are admirable adulatory accessories to enhance the all-embracing address of your table. Ranging from simple table covers and table runners to intricately styled napkin rings and tea cozies, table top accessories can absolutely add a beginning charter of activity to your approved table. Types of Table Accessories Table accessories can be categorized into two altered active namely

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Today's Christmas traditions accommodate the midnight accumulation and the big Christmas feast. Accouchement and parents adorn the Christmas timberline and apprehend Santa Claus (sometimes said in advertence to Saint Nicholas) to allowance them. They leave accolade and milk for Papa Noël, which is French for Santa and actually agency Father Christmas. In some countries, accouchement alike leave a

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At age 17, Seattle Washington native Jack Dumas was invited to work at Walt Disney Studios in California. He stayed for only a short time. After returning home and taking art courses at two Seattle colleges, Dumas moved to L.A. and found time to continue his education at Chouinard and Art Center between commercial art assignments. Then came the war. Dumas was drafted in 1941, serving in an

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Jean Baptiste Vendamme: Designer / Sculpter CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Adobe Photoshop

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One of my favourite illustrators, Albert Dorne, is the subject of a tribute on one of my favourite blogs, Toby Neighbors' Illostribute.Toby describes the Illostribute concept as "a new, collaborative illustration blog. The idea is to pay tribute to “master” illustrators (and occasionally fine artists) by seriously investigating their work, through interpretation."Toby has posted many great

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The entry on John McDermott in Piet Schreuders' "The Book of Paperbacks" is brief. After a paragraph of biographical info, it reads simply:"In the early '50s he did some paperback covers for Pocket Books, specializing in action scenes."Not mentioned is that McDermott can lay claim to having illustrated the cover of one of the 20th century's most memorable pop culture tomes...... or McDermott's

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After the young John McDermott graduated from Hollywood High School (and without any formal art training) he landed a job as an animator at Walt Disney Studios. As last week's guest author Ken Steacy noted, McDermott was there during the legendary 1930s Disney animators strike, which explains the title and tone of one of his other books, The Rat Factory.When WWII came, McDermott joined the

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Last week's series by guest author Ken Steacy on Brooks Wilson Ltd. and the 1970 feature film Loving certainly garnered a lot of interest from readers... and really piqued my curiosity. Just who was responsible for all that prop artwork Ken showed us in his screen caps from the film?I managed to ID this one piece, below, as being by John McDermott...... and reader David Apatoff surmised that

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By guest author Ken Steacy(This is the conclusion of Ken's look at the 1970 George Segal feature film, 'Loving', which was based on the book, 'Brooks Wilson Ltd.')What makes the film really fascinating is the remarkably accurate depiction of Brooks’ working method. There are no credits at the end of the film for the artist who created this amazing prop, so if any of the members recognize the work

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By guest author, Ken SteacyAmazingly, a feature film based upon Brooks Wilson Ltd. was made in 1970. Titled ‘Loving’ (for no apparent reason!), it starred George Segal in the title role with support from Eva Marie Saint as his long-suffering wife, Keenan Wynn as his bullying agent, Sterling Hayden as the impossible client Mr. Lepridon, and Roy Scheider as the harried agency flack. The director

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The brand new trailer for Pixar's Brave came out today... I am interested in what everyone thinks. Are you excited for it, or does it fall flat?  Do you like the designs.  Do you like the art direction?  Do all of the characters feel like they are in the same design world?Please leave a comment below and tell us what you think.

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By guest author, Ken SteacyYears ago, I discovered a remarkable novel titled Brooks Wilson Ltd. written in 1966 by J.M. Ryan. What initially attracted me to the book was the cover, adorned with one of Robert McGinnis’ best efforts; a wraparound that featured the titular hero (or anti-hero, as it turned out!) surrounded by a bevy of beauties.But what made this book truly fascinating was that

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Denis Zilber: Illustrator CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Photoshop

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I had never heard of Walter H. Everett until his work was brought to my attention recently by Greg Newbold. Greg has published two posts on his blog showcasing Everett's work -- and what stunning work it is!Everett has the dubious distinction of having one day burned all of the originals in his possession and abandoning illustration. Thank goodness some (but not much) of his work was out in the

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* An addendum to Friday's post on UK paperback cover art rates, by guest author Bryn Havord At the beginning of the 1970s, although Walter Wyles was one of Britain's leading illustrators, he was faced with similar problems facing all illustrators; in simple terms; a declining market. With less and less fiction being published in women's magazines which had been his main source of income, he

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Yesterday Bryn Havord, who has guest-authored several series of posts on TI, wrote to me about my recent series on the economics of the mid-century illustration industry. Bryn had so much interesting, invaluable information to share regarding related trends in the UK, I thought it would make a terrific follow-up post. Many thanks to Bryn, who also very graciously provided a wealth of related

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In case I've left you with the impression that the end of the Golden Age of magazine illustration meant that there was no call for illustration after 1960 -- and that all the great magazine artists of the mid-20th century either moved out west or became photographers -- well, nothing could be further from the truth.Although their traditional market was never again the same, a new market for

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Dan Seddon: Designer CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Prismacolor Pencils, Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom Cintiq.

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I wish I had a button I could hand out to every artist who feels helpless about the relentless erosion of our profession. It would say "Adapt or Die"Half a century ago, a lot of illustrators found themselves in the same situation. It must have felt a bit like watching a slow-motion train wreck. The problem being, you're on the train. The train is your career.This is the story of three artists

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Here's a pretty typical weekly issue of the Saturday Evening Post from 1954. It's 170 pages long (not including covers) and 102 of those pages utilize illustration in some capacity. I have not included single panel gag cartoons (of which there are many) in this total; only story art pages, full page or double page ads, ads that use photography as their main art but include illustration for

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Some time ago I presented the following minutes of a 1936 Society of Illustrators meeting. My friend Murray Tinkelman, Director of the MFA Illustration program at Hartford University, graciously sent this along - thanks again, Murray! Minutes of a 1936 Society of Illustrators Meeting"From $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 a year is being paid to illustrators by these ten mags:SEP, Collier's, Liberty,

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Last week we looked at a few examples of some pretty incredible financial scenarios for illustrators in the first half of the 20th century. In broad terms, it seems fairly evident that the profession of illustration was - at least potentially - an extremely lucrative field for many artists who worked at the upper levels of the business during those years. Circumstances seem to have changed

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Paul Briggs: Head of Story at Walt Disney Animation Studios CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Pencil and Adobe Photoshop

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In his autobiography, "My Adventures as an Illustrator," Norman Rockwell writes about his friend, Coles Phillips:"Coles never painted anything but pretty girls. He used to get marvelous prices for his work, as much as, if not more than, any other illustrator." "First he'd think of the best price he could hope for; then he'd think of his four children and add four hundred dollars. In the

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Here is my first ever published illustration that appeared in a national magazine. It was done during the summer of 1986, between my second and third year at art college. I will always be grateful to the art director at Canadian Business magazine who took a chance and gave a kid with what was clearly a student portfolio a shot at doing his first professional work. I was paid $275 dollars for

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I've own just one children's book illustrated by Harry Devlin; his 1971 collaboration with wife, Wende, "Cranberry Thanksgiving." Since this weekend is Thanksgiving here in Canada, I thought it would be an ideal time to share this with you.The atmospheric quality Devlin achieves in his illustrations is really quite stunning.I'm under the impression this book is still in print, so I won't post

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During Harry Devlin's ten year association with Collier's magazine, he was often called upon to create editorial cartoons that graced the back page of each weekly issue.Here once again, Devlin demonstrated his admirable range - from more realistic, serious and illustrative...... to lighthearted...... to outright zany.Devlin generally reserved his most hilarious stylings for those occasions when

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Here's the earliest piece I've ever found by Harry Devlin. Its from the 1947 New York Art Directors Annual and clearly demonstrates what an accomplished advertising line art illustrator Devlin was. That ability would have served him extremely well in those days, as line art was very much in use for all sorts of ad art.Harry Devlin was just as skilled at 'big-foot' cartooning, something that not

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Nikolas Ilic: Recent Graduate from Sheridan College Animation CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Adobe Photoshop

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If you happen to be near Stockbridge, MA, why not take in a talk about Russell Patterson by this past week's guest author, Jaleen Grove?Details at the Norman Rockwell Museum website.

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By Jaleen GroveCahén avoided rough work in order to preserve the spontaneity of the first attempt:"I do many sketches before starting a painting, but in my illustrations I rarely make such preliminary drawings. In fact, much to the dismay of art directors, my "roughs" are usually so sketchy that I can't make them out myself. What I do is to start my finished drawing with a hard pencil right on

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By Jaleen GroveWith his European training and creativity, Oscar Cahén was soon able to pick his work. For 70 years Canadians had been running to New York in search of better jobs. But when he was offered a high salary of $25,000 to join an ad agency (some sources say Esquire) in New York before 1951, Cahén opted to remain in Canada with an income of $15,000, perhaps in part because he was allowed

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By Jaleen GroveIn his 16 years of Canadian illustrating, there are at least 12 stylistic approaches so different that the casual observer would likely not detect only one artist behind them all, although a few of these Oscar Cahén did frequently enough to ensure some “name” recognition. New Liberty, 1948.Occasionally, Oscar Cahén’s illustrations reveal innovative surprises: collaged newspaper on

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By Jaleen GroveWhen Cahén began illustrating in Canada in 1941, conditions favoured innovation because not only was the Second World War upsetting norms and creating new opportunities in poster design, animation and other communication arts, it was giving Canada a new sense of itself as a nation, rather than as a British colony.We don’t know where either of these images appeared. If you do,

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By Jaleen GroveIt’s not every day that a Canadian illustrator gets a solo show in New York. Especially a deceased one that few know about.  Fiction illustration for “A Cage for the Bird Man,” Maclean’s, 1954.“There isn’t any doubt that Oscar Cahén was the greatest single force in Canadian illustration since [Charles W] Jefferys.”  In 1959, these were the words of Stan Furnival, art director at 

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Thomas Vroman was an illustrator and graphic designer whose work began appearing in major publications in the mid-1950s. In 1956, Collier's magazine published a spectacular series of historical illustrations by Vroman...  ... done in his highly attractive, highly decorative, signature style.  Vroman's inventive, forward-looking style was not necessarily appreciated by all of Collier's readers.  

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Meg Park: Artist, Animator and Illustrator. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HER GALLERYMedia: Adobe Photoshop and a Wacom tablet

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Children's books... some did many, some did a few and some did just one. That seems to be the case with Al Parker. As far as I know, the 1963 Crowell-Collier Press book "Jane's Blanket" was Parker's one foray into illustrating children's books. Many thanks to Harold Henriksen and Bill Reinhold, both of whom sent me a ton of scans from this now quite rare, quite expensive book. The cover was

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* This week, a parting gift from Tak Murakami, a Chicago illustrator and fan of Today's Inspiration who passed away recently. Thanks to Tak's friend Jason Millet for doing the scanning of these Harold Von Schmidt tear sheets from Tak's reference files. If you'd like to see some of Tak Murakami's own work, Jason put together a very nice tribute to Tak on my other blog, Storyboard Central.  * Many

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* This week, a parting gift from Tak Murakami, a Chicago illustrator and fan of Today's Inspiration who passed away recently. Thanks to Tak's friend Jason Millet for doing the scanning of these Noel Sickles tear sheets from Tak's reference files. If you'd like to see some of Tak Murakami's own work, Jason put together a very nice tribute to Tak on my other blog, Storyboard Central.* More by

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* This week, a parting gift from Tak Murakami, a Chicago illustrator and fan of Today's Inspiration who passed away recently.  Thanks to Tak's friend Jason Millet for doing the scanning of these Noel Sickles tear sheets from Tak's reference files.   If you'd like to see some of Tak Murakami's own work, Jason put together a very nice tribute to Tak on my other blog, Storyboard Central.

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* Last week I received a note from Jason Millet: "A friend and co-worker of mine, Tak Murakami, recently passed away. Tak was an excellent storyboard artist and illustrator before that. He enjoyed your Today's Inspiration blog and loved going through all the Flickr sets. Tak had many files that I've been trying to scan... but it unfortunately didn't happen until now." * This week, a parting

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"As I grew up," writes Lowell Hess the introduction to his new book, "it was my only interest to make pictures." And pictures was what Lowell made. From the first box of crayons he received as a small child to the high school days when he drew Indian cartoons like the one below, Lowell earned "a reputation as an artist with talent. When he attended the University of Oklahoma he "picked up a few

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Maxime Mary: Designer CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Wacom tablet and Photoshop

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Last week we looked at the art of one of the most celebrated cartoonists of the 20th century, Jack Davis -- this week I'd like to focus on the art of one of the finest cartoonists who ought to be much more celebrated: my friend, Lowell Hess.  Lowell has been featured on several occasions on TI. In fact, he was one of my earliest subjects and my first ever phone interview subject, way back in

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Between all the countless comics, bubblegum cards, board games, Sesame Street art and Mad magazine articles...Its hard to imagine a kid born in the last half century who hasn't encountered Jack Davis' art and had a smile put on his face by his always delightful drawings. Yesterday's series on Davis' Funny Valentines card art inspired my buddy Ken Steacy to send me scans of another Topps card

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"Woody Gelman at Topps was a great collector.  He had his own museum out on Long Island.  Woody collected all the old syndicated cartoonists going way back.  I would deliver all the way out to the Topps Bubblegum Factory.  Deliver work, pick up work and smell that bubble gum the whole time."~ Jack Davis, from the book "The Art of Jack Davis!"Here are a bunch of Topps bubble gum cards hilariously

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Can you tell me how to get... how to get to Sesame Street? We 1970s kids all knew the way;  just turn the dial (yes dial) on the television to PBS (or CBC here in Canada) and there you'd find Ernie and Bert, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and all your other Children's Television Workshop friends!Little did this '70s kid realize that as I was watching Sesame Street (in black & white, by the way

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Yesterday we learned how the amazing Jack Davis earned the title, "fastest draw in the East or the West." Today, again thanks to the generosity of Bill Peckmann, we'll see a dozen examples of Davis' legendary speed and prowess.Keep in mind that, just as with yesterday's Time magazine cover, Davis might have done as many as 15 pencil concept sketches before executing the final illustration for

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Patxi Peláez: DesignerCLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Adobe Photoshop.

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The April 1977 issue of American Artist magazine includes an article by Nick Meglin in which he describes exactly why legendary cartoonist Jack Davis will never yield the title of "fastest draw in the East or West" to any challenger.  To demonstrate this claim, Meglin provides a series of roughs Davis prepared for the October 1974 cover of Time magazine.Meglin tells us that not only would Jack

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 * Thanks to Harold Henriksen for sharing these wonderful scans with us! * Listen to Thomas James' interview with Barron Storey on the Escape from Illustration Island podcast, Episode 56 * Barron Storey's website: barronstorey.com

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Excerpt from Thomas James' podcast interview with Barron Storey:"The motorcycle thing was something I never even thought of as a potential illustration market. It seemed sort of 'beneath me' to play up my teenage motorcycle fetish. All the illustrators I admired were doing much more ambitious things.""I lived across the hall from a wonderful young friend who was assistant art director at Car

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* Many thanks to Harold Henriksen for sharing these wonderful images with us!* Thomas James interviewed Barron Storey in Episode 56 of the Escape from Illustration Island Podcast

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From the March 1978 issue of Creativity magazine(Above and below: James Hill shares page space in various 1950s volumes of the New York Art Directors Annuals)

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Click Here or on the picture to go to the Post

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Have a look at this beautifully drawn 4-panel comic strip;  see how long it takes you to identify what company is being advertised. Talk about subtle.  And not even a logo or tagline in sight! For several years during the 1950s, the Young and Rubicam advertising agency ran ads like these, featuring cartoon art, in Fortune magazine and in the back of each year's New York Art Directors Annual. Ever

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Brett Bean: DesignerCLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Adobe Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, Kuretake brush pens, and Prismacolors.

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Here's another piece by 1960s landscape/seascape painter, Christopher Davis.   I love this piece for its beautiful stylization of the subject - a stylization that approaches near-abstraction, in my opinion.  My recent foray into landscape painting has given me a greater appreciation for 'seeing' ... looking that chunk of the world I'm about to paint in a way other than the detailed surface

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Excerpted from The Art of Seascape Painting, © 1965, '66 M. Grumbacher Inc.(refers to the sketch below)

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Two weeks ago I was way up north, nearly an hour's drive above Manitoulin Island, on my summer vacation with a group of friends who are also artists. We spent a week up there at a camp in a tiny community called Whitefish Falls, painting landscapes 'en plein air.' I brought along the two Grumbacher Library 'How to Paint..." books I mentioned a little while ago, when we looked at the work of

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* Although Charlie intended this to be one long post, I've split it into three parts and presented one part each day this week. This is the concluding installment ~ Leif Finally, a couple of Gallo color ads, again I believe, slated for Sunday newspaper distribution.  They may have been for magazines. These both display Gallo's penchant for product up front and center... and the art set up and

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* Although Charlie intended this to be one long post, I'm splitting it into three parts and will present one part each day for the rest of this week. ~ Leif Following... a couple of Chevrolet ads definitely not seen on previous CAWS.  The first, a B&W full page news ad... ice boat sailing on a frozen Minnesota lake.  My idea of it anyway, not having witnessed the sport.  My 'Canadian' daughter

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* Although Charlie intended this to be one long post, I'm splitting it into three parts and will present one part each day for the rest of this week. ~ Leif "SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES, HAVING YOU TO TALK WITH...."There we go again....back to songs and nostalgia. A great tune nevertheless....going back to Guy Lombardo and others. By the way, I've no doubt inflicted a word-study on 'nostalgia' before

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I'm returning from my summer vacation 'off the grid' with some sad news: Charlie Allen passed away on July 11.If you've followed Today's Inspiration for some time you'll remember Charlie. He and his career as a West Coast illustrator were first the subject of a week-long profile in September 2007. In that first post, Tom Watson wrote, "Charlie Allen was one of the top illustrators in S.F.,

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Some of you may already know that I teach in the Graphic Design program at Mohawk College here in Hamilton, ON. Recently our faculty hosted an Advisory Council meeting with members of the various industries for which we train our students. Industry partners who attended were from print and web media, design and advertising, and the packaging and printing industries. It was an enlightening

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Take a look at the image below... what do you see? Illustration? Graphic design? Fine art? All three?To its creator, George Giusti, it was simply art. Giusti disdained the labeling of work as either commercial or fine art. "Art is art," said George Giusti, whatever its expressed intention. George Giusti was born in 1908 in Milan, Italy of a Swiss father and an Italian mother. He studied

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I'll try to explain next week. But feel free to comment if you do (or don't) see where I'm going with this.

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I want to explore the subject of Ben Shahn's work further, but on Monday I deliberately interjected the story of Norman Rockwell's 'Four Freedoms' because I wanted to draw attention to a couple of interesting points that were related in that anecdote:One; that the officer in charge of commissioning posters for the Office of War Information rejected Rockwell's proposal because he was "an

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During WWII Norman Rockwell, being too old to enlist, decided that the best way he could contribute was to do posters for the government. To that end he devised the concepts for "The Four Freedoms," based on the Atlantic Charter proclamation issued by Roosevelt and Churchill.But despite his best efforts, no government official in any department was interested. After many rejections Rockwell

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Recently a friend who shares my passion for illustration sent a note. He'd been perusing one of those massive volumes that collect and showcase "some of today's hottests young illustrators." In his opinion (and I have tremendous respect for this particular friend's opinion) he thought it was crap. Full of "faux naïve stuff, or just plain bad drawing."This is a complaint I hear often - both in

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Damon Bard has posted some huge images of his Kung Fu Panda II and How to Train Your Dragon maquettes on his web site here... http://bardsculpturestudio.com/admin/

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What were the employment opportunities like for mid-century fashion illustrators? Based on Merle Bassett's first-hand account, there were plenty of jobs for young illustrators in the fashion industry during the 1950s.Merele told me, "Much of my success was as a result of talent and luck. Fortunately the competition for work back then was not as ferocious as it is today. I do recall being

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Merle Bassett was featured in the September 1952 issue of Art Director & Studio News as that issue's "Upcoming Artist"...I never imagined that one day, nearly 60 years after that article was published, I would receive a note from Merle Bassett himself! Last October, with the help of TI list member Daniel Zalkus, I connected and began corresponding with Merle Bassett. Merle shared many details

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"I’ve watched the popularity of fashion illustration wax and wane. But I’m happy to say – and this book bears me out – that it never goes away; it just keeps coming back, like a familiar melody." ~ Carmen Dell’Orefice, from the introduction to David Downton's 2010 book, "Masters of Fashion Illustration"For quite some time now, I've been wanting to devote a week on Today's Inspiration to fashion

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The Dodge Truck ads from the last post certainly were a hit with TI readers. Thanks to several commenters, we now know that Charles Wysocki was the artist responsible for the beautiful illustrations in that series.Harry Borgman very kindly sent the ad below from the 1956 Detroit Art Directors Annual, illustrated by Wysocki, for McNamara Brothers, the art studio where Harry and Chuck Wysocki once

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In 1960 Dodge Trucks ran an ad campaign that was very forward-looking. Smart, colourful, stylized illustrations were featured in a series of magazine ads (and for related brochures and catalogues) positioning Dodge trucks in a distinctive, contemporary light.Kudos to the art director who sold the client on this approach - and to Dodge for going out on a limb by agreeing to such a unique

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Some artists are so focused - so driven to create - that they seem to live for nothing else. James R. Bingham was such an artist. During one 9-year stretch of his career in the '40s, he took only 11 days of vacation. When asked what he would do if he had time for a hobby, he said "paint."Because he was so single-minded of purpose, so prolific, because he had such a facility for such a diverse

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Geneviève Godbout: IllustratorCLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HER GALLERYMedia:Faber-castell polychromos color pencils

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Despite the obvious range of subject matter that James R. Bingham was clearly capable of handling with great proficiency, his work during the 1950s is, for me, epitomized by a long-running series he illustrated for the Saturday Evening Post...Erle Stanley Gardner's "Perry Mason."Here Bingham's work truly captured the sumptuous atmospheric stylings of the best of film noir.Bingham's flair for

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Some people are born to illustrate and it would appear James R. Bingham was such a person. An entry on Bingham in the book, Illustrating for the Saturday Evening Post certainly suggests as much. "In a way," writes author Ashley Halsey Jr., "James R. Bingham was spared a lot of worrying over what he would be when he grew up. At the extremely early age of three, he decided to be an artist."

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If I could use only one word to describe the work of James R. Bingham, it would be this:"Impactful."Bingham had the innate ability to take any scene, from the most benign...... to the most ferocious...... and give to it a sense of drama that transcended the work of most other illustrators.That's because James R. Bingham could do so much more than just draw and paint well. Bingham had a masterful

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Elsa Chang: Freelance for Disney PublishingCLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HER GALLERYMedia: Adobe Photoshop,Watercolor, Gouache, Col-erase pencil and pen and ink.

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Last week I was away at a conference in Windsor, Ontario. Whenever I visit another town I try to find some time to visit its used book stores. I'm always hopeful that some overlooked treasure will present itself to me - and that's what happened when I dropped in at Juniper Used Books in Windsor. I found these two slim mid-1960s volumes from the long-running Grumbacher Library series of art

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Last week's look at Rowland B. Wilson's Playboy cartoons certainly prompted a lot of enthusiastic commentary, including this nice note from Bill Peckmann:"Dear Leif; All of us die hard Rowland Wilson fans can't thank you enough for posting 3 days of Rowland's (the cartoonist's cartoonist) art! Any chance of posting more?"Knowing that RBW had done work for Esquire magazine, I dug out a bunch

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Emmanuel Briand: Character Designer, Backgrounds Colorist, and Visual Development Artist.CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Adobe Flash, Photoshop, and Watercolor

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Thanks again to Mike Vosburg for all these terrific Rowland B. Wilson scans we've been enjoying this week!

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Thanks again to Mike Vozburg for contributing these scans!

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drawings in a 8.5 by 11 moleskin sketchbook

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If, as a kid, you ever snuck a peek at your dad's Playboy magazines, you probably remember seeing the magnificent art of Rowland B. Wilson. Now, tear your eyes away from the nekkid ladies for a minute...... and take a closer look at all the wonderful stuff going on in the other parts of the picture!This guy could paint!Here are a few more Rowland B. Wilson Playboy cartoons, all courtesy of Mike

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This 1951 Mother's Day ad for Whitman's was illustrated by David Attie.I knew I'd heard that name before... but there doesn't seem to be much by Attie on the Internet - and even less about him.I managed to locate this 1953 piece in my collection of Art Director & Studio News magazines. So at least we now know that Attie was an east coast illustrator in the early '50s, represented by the

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Goro Fujita: Animator/Visual Development Artist.CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERVIEW AND SEE HIS GALLERYMedia: Adobe Photoshop and Sketchbook Pro

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Not long ago Bruce Fernie contacted me to let me know he had created a website to celebrate the career of his father, the illustrator John Fernie. I've come across Fernie's work on several occasions and really liked it. Below are three examples I found in various mid-1950s issues of Cosmopolitan magazine.Now there's a place where you can read about John Fernie's life and see some great examples

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By guest author Ken NuttI thought your readers might like to see some samples from an exhibition currently at the Gallery Stratford in Stratford, Ontario. The title of the show is 'ART AT WORK: Commercial Art from the Collection of Ken Nutt.' It features original artwork for illustrations, mainly from the nineteen-fifties, that I have collected over the years.The above piece is by an illustrator

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That's pretty amazing actually: with the way tastes change, how many other illustrators could claim to have done work for a single magazine client for three decades (and to get to do the covers at that)? Another example of how tremendously versatile and adaptable Al Parker was.The '50sThe '60sThe '70s* Many thanks to TI list member Tom Johnsonn who, out of the blue, sent all of today's scans

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Today, guest author Bryn Havord concludes his article on English illustrator Brian Sanders.The early colour supplements produced in Britain gave illustrators excellent shop windows for their work. This series, in the prestigious Sunday Times Magazine featured the best shots made by ten great tennis players. The art director was Michael Rand.Michael Rand also commissioned Brian to paint a series

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Guest author Bryn Havord continues his article on English illustrator Brian Sanders.During the ’60s Brian’s work was also used in all of the earliest newspaper colour supplements, and Stanley Kubrick employed him to record with paintings and drawings made on the set, the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey.(Above: Round 65. One of a series of experimental collages that helped persuade Stanley Kubrick

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