-
Cooking Over Campfire In Art And Illustration
A collection of art and illustration featuring outdoor cooking.
-
Catching Fish In Art And Illustration
Illustrations of people out fishing. But sometimes you get what you don’t expect.
-
Illustrating Underwater Scenes
Although blue is the first colour that comes to mind when we think ‘underwater’, the range of hue available to illustrators is wider than that. Here are some examples.
-
Painting The Haze Of Hot Summer Days
How to convey a hot and hazy day in art and illustration?
-
A Sock Is A Pocket For Your Toes by Liz Garton Scanlon and Robin Preiss Glasser Analysis
A Sock Is A Pocket For Your Toes (2004) is a picture book by Liz Garton Scanlon and Robin Preiss Glasser, published by HarperCollins. A cave is a pocket for a bear,a breath is a pocket full of air.A hat is a pocket for your hair,and a seat is a pocket called a chair… A Sock […]
-
Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Picking in Art and Illustration
Here’s a collection of people picking fruit. Most of the people picking fruit are women, a metaphorically gendered activity (if not an actual one?) Images of women picking fruit appeals to our fantasies of abundance and self-sufficiency. Many of these works are brightly coloured and cosy.
-
Illustrations of Art Studios
Sometimes artists don’t need to travel far to find inspiration for their work.
-
Warm, Bright, Sunny Colours in Art and Illustration
A collection of illustrations which convey that warm, sunny feeling… mostly. The same palette can work to the opposite effect.
-
Weddings In Art and Illustration
Dreaming about weddings, preparing for weddings, getting married, eating the wedding dinner…
-
Cakes In Art And Literature
A selection of illustrated cakes, and also books featuring cakes.
-
Checkered Floors and Backgrounds In Art And Illustration
Header painting: Interior of Monaco Anita Catarina Malfatti (1889 -1964) São Paulo, Brazil
-
Signage In Art And Storytelling
Signage featuring prominently in art
-
Bees and Wasps in Art and Illustration
A collection of bees and wasps in art and illustration
-
Messing About In Boats
Ursula Le Guin once had a conversation with Halderman, which is ostensibly about boats but is actually about writing. ALISON HALDERMAN: You do invent wonderful landscapes. The Earthsea trilogy creates such a vivid picture of the sea — have you done a lot of sailing? URSULA LE GUIN: All that sailing is complete fakery. It’s […]
-
Dark, Shadowy Interiors
Some of these paintings serve as dark frames to draw attention to a scene outside a window. But every afternoon in winter there’s a period between full light and dark, where you haven’t quite turned the lights on yet. These paintings capture this mood.