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Table Scenes in Illustration and Composition
Table scenes are notoriously difficult to film in TV and movies. Live action presents its own challenges, but static images of characters around tables aren’t exactly easy, either.
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Catching Fish In Art And Illustration
Illustrations of people out fishing. But sometimes you get what you don’t expect.
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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.
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Painting The Haze Of Hot Summer Days
How to convey a hot and hazy day in art and illustration?
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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.
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Illustrations of Art Studios
Sometimes artists don’t need to travel far to find inspiration for their work.
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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.
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Weddings In Art and Illustration
Dreaming about weddings, preparing for weddings, getting married, eating the wedding dinner…
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Cakes In Art And Literature
A selection of illustrated cakes, and also books featuring cakes.
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Checkered Floors and Backgrounds In Art And Illustration
Header painting: Interior of Monaco Anita Catarina Malfatti (1889 -1964) São Paulo, Brazil
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Signage In Art And Storytelling
Signage featuring prominently in art
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Bees and Wasps in Art and Illustration
A collection of bees and wasps in art and illustration
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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 […]
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Illustrations With Castles In The Distance
Castles in the background of illustrations
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Card Games In Illustration
Before TV and the internet people had card games.