Tag: Illustration

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 — 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 — 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 — Erich J. Moffitt

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

Coin Knight

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

Time Rook

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

Wilder Bishop

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

Bow Pawn

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

Word Rook

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 — 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.