ILLUSTRATION ART
Thursday, May 28, 2020

BULL

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In 1967 Bernie Fuchs drew this bull for an ad for the Henry Schroeder Banking Corporation.  Eight years later, artist Susan Rothenberg ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

THE GREAT NOEL SICKLES, part 5

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Unlike many artists who hedge their bets with numerous fine lines, Sickles often used bold lines and dry brush.   In the following c...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

THE GREAT NOEL SICKLES, part 4

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Here are some hopefully edifying close-ups of a Sickles drawing: Sickles was assigned to illustrate technicians at work on a nuclear react...
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Saturday, May 16, 2020

THE GREAT NOEL SICKLES, part 3

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Noel Sickles was a capable painter... ...but he was first and foremost a draftsman.  He used the most basic black and white to...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

THE GREAT NOEL SICKLES, part 2

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This is Noel Sickles' preliminary sketch... for this finished illustration of runaway horses on main street: Unlike many art...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

THE GREAT NOEL SICKLES, part 1

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In an era plagued with viruses, squabbling politicians and fake news, the honest drawings of Noel Sickles make a great disinfectant. Here ...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

A GRATUITOUS JULIAN SCHNABEL PAINTING

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I had no interest in posting a picture by celebrity artist Julian Schnabel.  Then I read the following in the New Art Examiner : Wishing t...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020

PLAGUE ART, part 4

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John Cuneo has a mind and sense of humor that are, in my opinion, unique in illustration today.  As far as I know, they're unique in the...
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Thursday, April 09, 2020

MORT DRUCKER 1929-2020

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Last night the great Mort Drucker -- one of the few true geniuses of 20th century comic art--  passed away peacefully.  He left behind a ...
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Saturday, April 04, 2020

PLAGUE ART, part 3

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Man Throwing Up   by David Lynch Before David Lynch became a master at making unsettling, creepy films he was a master at making unsett...
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