Category: Illustrator

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Johnny Pham

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Johnny Pham specializes in crafting unique and eye-catching moss creations.From handmade wood and cement moss bowls to custom framed moss art and large-scale moss panels, each piece is a one-of-a-kind work of art, designed with a distinct creative twist.Each moss art frame is meticulously hand-assembled, starting with a layer of preserved moss as the canvas, upon which he add 100% natural elements like mushrooms, fern leaves, and driftwood to create depth and texture.
Preserved moss is real moss that’s been treated with a natural glycerin-based solution to maintain its soft texture, color, and shape — no water or sunlight needed.His handcrafted pieces bring unique texture, depth, and organic elegance to any interior.Pham’s art is the perfect way to create an earthy and sophisticated atmosphere in the world of creative art.His love of nature combines with his artistic talent to produce realistic plant designs that will last a lifetime.More of Johnny Pham‘s amazing moss work can be found at the Moss Shop, https://themossshop.com/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Quilts of the 1800s

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Historians cannot be sure when exactly quilting was invented, but they do know that the history of quilting goes back at least to medieval times. It is possible that quilting was used in ancient times: an ancient Egyptian ivory carving shows a king wearing what appears to be a quilted cloak. 

Out of curiosity I searched for quilts made in the 1800s. The variety was amazing. Remember: these were created before electricity. Some were created before the sewing machine was invented in 1842. Some were created around the American Civil War.

Zoom in and take a closer look at the quality  of mid-1800s.

 

Contained Quilt, 1880

 

Bunch of Grapes, 1870

 

 

Field Of Diamonds Quilt, 1860

 

 

House Medallion. 1880

 

Pinwheel Quilt. 1845

 

 

George Washington Quilt. 1876

 

 

Star of Bethlehem With Pomegranate Trees, 1850

 

 

Name Unknown, 1870

 

 

Foundation Rose And Tulips, 1865

 

 

Mariner’s Compass Quilt, 1840

 

 

 

 





Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Charles Dana Gibson

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Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1955) as an American artist and illustrator who was best known for Gibson Girl – an iconic image that best represented the stunningly independent Euro-American woman at the start of the 20th century.

Gibson attended New York’s Art Students League from 1884 to 1885, then traveled to Italy, Spain, and France to study painting from 1905 to 1907. 

Gibson’s illustrations included the refined upper-middle-class idealized woman known as the Gibson Girl, as well as gentle satirical depictions of American mores and public life.

She became known as an ideal image of youthful American femininity, the modern woman: athletic, smart, stylish, and desirable, and she sold magazines.Charles’ skill allowed him to create pictures using mere black ink and basic paper.Gibson’s use of bold lines, as well as his techniques in utilizing contrast, are still being admired and studied by contemporary illustrators who are serious about perfecting their craft.Add in his unique application of tone, character, and humor, and his style started to be emulated by the artists of his time.

More of Charles Dana Gibson’s unique artwork can be found at https://americanillustration.org/project/charles-dana-gibson/ and https://www.artlex.com/artists/charles-dana-gibson/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Joris Hoefnagel

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Joris Hoefnagel or Georg Hoefnagel (1542 – 1601) was a Flemish painter, printmaker, miniaturist, draftsman and merchant.He is noted for his illustrations of natural history subjects, topographical views, illuminations and mythological works.Hoefnagel was one of the last manuscript illuminators and made a major contribution to the development of topographical drawing.His manuscript illuminations and ornamental designs played an important role in the emergence of floral still-life painting as an independent genre in northern Europe at the end of the 16th century.Working before the invention of the microscope and long before etymology was an established field of study, Hoefnagel produced images that are much more than the sum of his empirical observations.He created his manuscripts not for a wide scientific public but instead for himself and his small circle of friends.The almost scientific naturalism of his botanical and animal drawings served as a model for a later generation of Netherlandish artists.Through these nature studies Hoefnagel also contributed to the development of natural history and he was thus a founder of proto-scientific inquiry.More of Joris Hoefnagel’s work can be found at https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.2569.html.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Beatrix Potter

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Helen Beatrix Heelis (1866 –1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter, was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.Potter is one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time, writing and illustrating more than 20 children’s books starring Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Benjamin Bunny.Potter first tasted success as an illustrator, selling some of her work to be used for greeting cards.Her most distinguishable artistic traits are well known to be the whimsical anthropomorphism that her stories surround.Studying book illustration from a young age and developing her own tastes, Potter’s earliest illustrations focused on traditional rhymes and stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Puss in Boots.However, most often her illustrations were fantasies featuring her own pets: mice, rabbits, kittens, and guinea pigs.As Potter grew older, she spent her time alone learning to drawing with her eye to a microscope, and eventually developed an interest in fungi. Invited to study fungi by the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, she produced hundreds of detailed botanical drawings and investigated fungi’s cultivation and growth.

More of Beatrix Potter’s whimsical art work can be found at https://beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/ and https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/characters-of-beatrix-potter.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jon Juarez

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Jon Juarez is an artist, author, and illustrator from San Sebastián, Spain.He is known for creating beautiful sketches and drawings with bright colors and a surrealist touch.Juarez describes himself as a soul of the wilderness, dragged by his pens towards civilization. Many of the artist’s works are based on real places, but they always have a surreal twist that takes them out of the realm of possibility.Through years of practice and honing his craft, he has learned to express his creative visions, and they now take the form of elaborate compositions that boast meticulous details.Each piece is beautiful in its delicate lines and use of color, and they are made alluring thanks to additional elements such as  polygons and waves.More of Jon Juarez‘s colorful works can be found at https://harriorrihar.myportfolio.com/ and https://designyoutrust.com/2022/12/the-superb-hand-drawn-illustrations-by-jon-juarez/. 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Vanessa Lubach

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Vanessa Lubach is a linocut illustrator and artist who grew up in Oxfordshire and trained as an illustrator in Brighton, England, graduating in 1990.Drawing from observation has always been at the core of Lubach’s work, whether it is illustrating, painting or printmaking.Each piece begins with a sketch and a general idea of the palette.After drawing and carving the main image, or key block, she prints and transfers the composition to additional blocks designed for each individual color.Her linocuts are intricately carved and multi-layered,  and some pieces take almost a year to complete.Lubach likens her printmaking practice to the intricacies of oil painting, and draws on her color experiences to inform her vibrant compositions.“I linocut like a painter and paint like a linocutter, and the two disciplines work together to inform and enhance each other,,” Lubach shares.More of Vanessa Lubach‘s lovely prints can be found at http://www.vanessalubach.co.uk/ and https://www.instagram.com/vanessalubach/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Graham Franciose

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Illustrator Graham Franciose was born and raised in the forests of rural Massachusetts to a very loving and creative family.

Trained in photorealism in a variety of mediums, Franciose studied Illustration at the Hartford Art School, and graduated with a BFA in Illustration in 2005.Franciose often sits down with watercolor, gouache, and a small sheet of cotton paper to paint a whimsical scene or surreal moment.Dreamlike in style and subject matter, the works are part of an ongoing series simply titled ‘Morning Coffee Paintings.’An exercise in experimentation and releasing perfectionism, the paintings reflect a range of moods through mysterious scenarios and quiet, contemplative figures.His imaginative illustrative paintings are small in size and big on emotion, each depicting its own little narrative, often dreamily reminiscent, reaching deep into the human condition and showing us all little pieces of ourselves along the way.Franciose’s work deals with the quiet moments in a story, between the excitement and action where characters deal with internal conflicts, doubt, loneliness, wonder, and apprehension.“My work often comes across as sad and melancholy, but there is always a sense of hope that I am trying to portray,” the artist shares.“I try to keep the meaning and scenario of my work open ended so each viewer can interpret the narrative in their own way.“There is a story in there, but it’s up to you to decide what it is.”

More of Graham Franciose‘s enchanting art can be found at https://gfranciose.com/ and https://gfranciose.com/2020-morning-coffee-paintings.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jon Juarez

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Jon Juarez is an artist, author, and illustrator from San Sebastián, Spain.He spent over a decade learning and refining his technique before beginning to work on commissioned projects.He is known for creating beautiful sketches and drawings with bright colors and a surrealist touch.Juarez’s fantastical illustrations of locales, which sometimes appear familiar and other times foreign, come from thoughts that were once only in his head.Through years of practice and honing his craft, he has learned to express his creative visions, and they now take the form of elaborate compositions that boast meticulous details.Many of Juarez’s works are based on real places, but they always have a surreal twist that takes them out of the realm of possibility.More of Jon Juaraz‘s wonderful paintings can be found at https://www.artstation.com/harriorrihar and https://designyoutrust.com/2022/12/the-superb-hand-drawn-illustrations-by-jon-juarez/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Walter Crane

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Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English illustrator, painter, and designer primarily known for his imaginative illustrations of children’s books.

The son of the portrait painter and miniaturist Thomas Crane (1808–59), Crane is considered to be among the most influential and  most prolific children’s book creators of his generation.Crane’s work featured some of the more colorful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children’s stories for decades to come. The artist was one of the strongest contributors to the child’s nursery motif that English children’s illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century.His work featured some of the more colorful and detailed images that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children’s stories for decades to come.Crane was a strong believer in the ‘unity of design’ in book illustration, and often printed the words of the texts or poems himself.

Crane’s view was that the union of the calligrapher’s and the decorator’s art was one secret of the beauty of the old illuminated books. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children’s books, ceramic tiles, wallpapers and other decorative arts.He devoted much time and energy to the work of the Art Workers Guild, of which he was master in 1888 and 1889 and to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, which he helped to found in 1888.

More of Walter Crane‘s illustrations can be found at https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/walter-crane and https://www.wikiart.org/en/walter-crane.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Erich J. Moffitt

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Erich J. Moffitt is an internationally exhibited painter and freelance illustrator who resides in Seattle, Washington.

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Moffitt grew up in Europe and studied Illustration and Art History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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His whimsical, brightly colored paintings are like modern translations of Romantic-era storybooks, clearly inspired by late-nineteenth century art and culture. 

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Many of his paintings are fables, featuring totemic animal archetypes and talismanic objects.

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Stylistically rendered atop real, artisanal chess sets, this particular art series finds Moffitt recreating chess pieces from the dark side of a chess board.

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Pawns, bishops, rooks, and knights are all recast as classic animal characters, saturated with the same magic, fantasy, and romantic symbolism for which the artist is known.

Night Queen

“I make art to connect with others and express and explore ideas feelings, and outlooks,” the artist explained.

Flame Knight

“I can’t quite put into words as well as I can paint them. Pictures condense and crystalize thoughts for me in a way that gives them a life outside of my mind.”

Bone Pawn

You can find more of Erich Moffitt‘s amazing art at https://ejmoffitt.com/. and https://www.archenemyarts.com/erichjmoffitt-foolsgambit. 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jason Edmiston

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A fine artist and commercial illustrator since 1996, Jason Edmiston has shown his paintings in galleries, as well as worked for advertising, editorial, packaging and book publishing clients internationally.Megatron

Edmiston is primarily a traditional artist, painting in acrylic on wood panel and watercolor paper, but also works digitally when the assignment calls for it.Billy

His style can be referred to as “ideal realism”, and usually emphasizes the figure with high contrast and saturated colors.Dracula

Edmiston is often inspired by the world of pop culture, adding his personal spin to characters and subjects from movies, comic books, toys and retro style advertising.Mars Attacks

Many of his portraits feature well-known entities, while others defy familiarity.Angus

His style is vibrant and high contrast, producing a dramatic lighting style that he favors. Monster Mash

But in Edmiston’s world — the monster, the creep, the villain — are front and center, heroes of their own story.Accessories

More of Jason Edmiston’s illustrations can be found at http://jasonedmiston.com/

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Eric Ross Bernstein

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Eric Ross Bernstein is a freelance artist and designer based in Los Angeles.After graduating with a degree in architecture from Cornell University, he co-founded the design collective Hither Yon, then worked as an architect at Studio Jeppe Hein.Bernstein’s graphic novel Parallels explores fundamental human experiences like love, anxiety, language, and memory.

The art in Parallels chronicles the travels of an introspective wanderer in search of personal truths in the alternate realities of his parallel selves.“There is a place where mountains blow in the wind, where memories are floating orbs bobbing above the head, where words expire when left unspoken,” Bernstein reflects.In ten fantastical fables, the narrator sets out to illuminate the interconnectedness of the multiverse while seeking answers to his deepest questions.“My illustrations and their accompanying stories reimagine fundamental human experiences like thoughts, language, bliss and fear.”Bernstein’s illustrations are three dimensional, other-worldly, and yet personal, touching each viewer differently.

More of Eric Ross Bernstein’s work can be found at https://ericrossbernstein.com/ and Boom.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Maxim Shkret

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Moscow-based illustrator Maxim Shkret conjures the flowing hair of people and the tangled fur of beasts in this lovely ongoing series of digital illustrations.Mixing a unique method of 3d modeling with carefully applied shadows, each piece evokes the form of a paper-like sculpture.One of his key flairs is lavish swoops and sweeps that detail his 3D designed images, giving that captivating look of something expertly sculpted with such conviction.Shkret believes that advancing technology is a powerful tool that can be utilized to bring the most dreamy and clever ideas to full realization.And this ideology certainly shows in his endeavors through the stunningly eccentric concepts that unravel before viewers’ eyes.“Being a strong advocate of experiments on the intersection of digital and physical, I firmly believe that imagination is free from any constraints and boundaries,” Shkret says. “It is a powerful engine that fuels the creative process allowing to propel the aesthetics of the visual art to new heights.”

More of Maxim Shkret’s amazing graphics can be found at www.shkret.com.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Adam Goldberg

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When Adam Goldberg, Creative Director and Co-Founder of Santa Monica-based studio Trüf,  isn’t crafting work for a client, the designer likes to engage his creativity with an ongoing series of minimal illustrations titled FAÜNA.The pieces combine black and red shapes and linework to form stylized versions of animals and insects.FAÜNA is an ongoing illustration project where he takes a very basic interpretation of the animal kingdom. His many years in branding has influenced the style and execution of illustrations and not necessarily the other way around —although it is a merger of both aesthetics.Goldberg describes the project as “a minimalistic and strange interpretation of the animal kingdom that only exists in our heads.”Although Goldberg is directly inspired by artists such as Joan Miro and Alexander Calder, he is also influenced by the client work he has completed over the years.“The simplicity, geometry, and composure that we try to achieve with our branding work rubs off on the artwork,” he explained.“I think more in terms of composition and balance more now than I ever have — and that’s because of the branding work.”More of Adam Goldberg‘s wonderful art can be found at www.trufcreative.com and https://www.messymod.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (midweek) — Brian Froud

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Brian Froud (born 1947) is an English fantasy illustrator. 

Froud graduated with Honors from Maidstone College of Art in 1971 with a degree in Graphic Design.

Soon afterwards, he began working in London on various projects ranging from book jackets, magazine covers to advertising as well as illustrating several children books.

Froud soon realized that fairy tales and legends were something which would never get old.In collaboration with his friend and fellow artist Alan Lee, Froud created the 1978 book Faeries, an illustrated compendium of faerie folklore.Upon discovering Froud’s lavish and mysterious drawings in his books, and recognizing his complex and singular artistic vision of the faerie world,  Jim Henson chose him to help him create a unique otherworld feature-film which became known as The Dark Crystal. Soon Froud developed his own magical distinctive style and experimented with three dimensional designs complete with gnomes, goblins, warlocks and dragons.Through Froud’s unique style utilizing acrylics, colored pencil, pastels and ink, he has created some of the most well known fantasy images of the Twenty-first Century.More of Brian Froud‘s amazing workmanship can be found at https://www.ferniebrae.com/brian-froud.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Cindy Kang

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Born and raised in Seoul, along with a couple of other stints living in New Zealand, Australia and the US growing up, Cindy Kang eventually moved to the big apple with hopes and dreams of becoming an illustrator.

She studied illustration at New York’s School of Visual Arts, pursuing an interest in storytelling through heartwarming atmospheric drawings.With a number of commissions under her belt, Cindy’s American dream is gradually being realized; one painterly illustration at a time.“I was always interested in storytelling,” explains Cindy, “whether it’s in the form of written language or visual language.”

“However, being from the other side of the world and living as a ‘foreigner’ for more than half of my life meant that it was inevitable for me to face some language and cultural barriers.”

Taking up drawing as a way to loosen anxiety during those “new girl experiences”, illustration became a release for Cindy, as well as a way to let go from the pressures of communicating perfectly in English.

Her art seems to be a more personal reflection of inner female thoughts and dreams of the feminine world. 

By paying close attention to the emotion of her illustrated figures, Cindy continues to depict a breathing space for her drawn characters while revealing her wild imagination at the same time.

More of Cindy Kang‘s work can be found at http://www.cindysykang.com

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Maria Sibylla Merian

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator living in the Netherlands, was an extremely enterprising and independent woman who managed a successful career as an artist, botanist, naturalist and entomologist.

At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and insects that were not previously known, such as insects did not spontaneously emerge from mud.

Merian was the first to bring together insects and their habitats, including food they ate, into a single ecological composition.

Merian published her first book of natural illustrations, titled Neues Blumenbuch, in 1675.

In 1699, following eight years of painting and studying, and on the encouragement of the governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam, the city of Amsterdam awarded Merian a grant to travel to South America with her daughter Dorothea. Her trip, designed as a scientific expedition makes Merian perhaps the first person to plan a journey rooted solely in science.

She then proceeded to publish her major work, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (de), in 1705, for which she became famous. 

Merian is considered to be among the most significant contributors to the field of entomology — an amazing journey for an 18th Century woman.

More of Maria Sibylla Merian‘s amazing story and images can be found at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Sibylla-Merian and https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-made-science-beautiful/424620/. 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Pierre Brissaud

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Pierre Brissaud  (1885- 1964) was a French illustrator, painter, and a prominent figure of French Art Deco.

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He created illustrations for publications Les Feuillets d’Art, La Gazette du Bon Ton, Fortune, House & Garden, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.

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Many of his illustrations are realistic leisure scenes of the well-to-do.

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From the mid-1920 to the early 1930’s, Pierre Brissaud was known for his stencil prints meant for magazine covers and advertising.

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Not only did Brissaud created prints and posters for fashion houses, but he also did book illustrations including Manon Lescaut, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Madame Bovary.

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It is through his creative artistry that the reflections of elegance of days gone by are preserved.

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More about Pierre Brissaud can be found at http://bestarts.org/artist/pierre-brissaud/