Monday, November 7, 2016

GARRET MCFANN




NEWS FLASH !!!

Sculptor creates small acrylic painting....... enters it in national small works competition... " Wins Best of Show "....


Mesquite Fine Arts Gallery "Lucky 13"                         
15 W. Mesquite Blvd
Mesquite, Nevada 89027

  
 
                   HEAT OF BATTLE,         
            Acrylic 8.5" x 10" x 2"

GARRET MCFANN
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preliminary drawing for painting





Sunday, November 6, 2016

Preston Blair

 

CARTOON ANIMATION Original Drawings of PIG WOLF-HUNTER for 1994 Walter Foster Art Book

Pencil, india ink and white opaque touch-up paint on two , unevenly trimmed paper sheets mounted to 17" x 11" paper, image size: 10.75" x 8"

Preston Blair

These sequential construction drawings of a "Little Wolf-Hunter Pig" were created by Preston Blair as illustrations for his animation instruction book published by Warren T. Foster in 1994. They were published on pages 42 and 43 in the Character Development chapter of the book and titled "Little Wolf-Hunter Pig" with instructions for drawing the figure. The hand-lettered text with the art does not appear with the published drawings. Cartoon Animation was the final version of Mr. Blair's series of books published in his lifetime. It is the most comprehensive edition and incorporates material from previous editions along with new work.


        IMAGES FOUND ON Luca Chiarotti's flickr site

Friday, November 4, 2016

Karl Alexander Wilke

                                    Woman reading (c.1912)                             Books and Art


(1879 Leipzig - 1954 Wien).  

Wilke was a German-Austrian painter, illustrator and stage designer. From 1905 to 1918 he was a staff member of the Austrian humour/men’s magazine, Die Musketethe.




Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Saturday, October 8, 2016

John R. Neill

 

found on: ozclub Online Gallery



 Original drawing by John R. Neill for The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913). In addition to serving as the end papers for Baum’s seventh Oz book, this illustration was adapted for and used in Baum’s Little Wizard Stories—a series of short Oz tales designed to introduce younger readers to Oz. The adaptation is obvious in this original artwork; shadows of the two characters have been carefully blocked out. 






Sunday, October 2, 2016

George Brehm

"Very Funny!" - 1934 Saturday Evening Post Original Illustration Art


George Brehm



 
Reposted from: rubylane.com, both pis and texts

This very large superb and lively story illustration was published in The Saturday Evening Post circa 1935.
George Brehm published about 100 such illustrations in the Post between 1905 and 1943 - including 9 covers. According to Walt Reed, "his most memorable pictures were done for The Saturday Evening Post for story series by Booth Tarkington, Octavius Roy Cohen, and M.G. Chute. It was a source of pride to Brehm that the Post never required him to submit preliminary sketches, although he made many of them for himself before embarking on a finished picture" (The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000. New York, NY: The Society of Illustrators, Inc., 2001, p. 137).
George Brehm (1878-1966) was a native of Anderson, Indiana: he seems to have always kept a fresh Hoosier outlook on life and folks. He made his home in Pelham, NY, at "Witherbee Court, where he also maintained his studio and from where he could cross the street to pursue his other great passion, golf, at the Pelham Country Club" (The Pelham Manor Story 1891 – 1991. Pelham Manor, NY: James B. Saunders, ed. 1991, p 19). He was the elder brother of Worth Brehm whose wonderful "Dorm Conference" was sold here a while ago. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under Frank Vincent DuMond, George Bridgman and John Henry Twachtman.
George Brehm designed covers for The Saturday Evening Post (9 between 1907 and 1935), Woman's World (Apr. 1914), Short Stories (Feb 1916), Woman's Home Companion (Sept. 1916)... His illustrations appeared in the Post and other magazines such as The American Magazine, Broadway Magazine Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Country Gentleman, The Delineator, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Monthly, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Metropolitan Magazine, Munsey's, Pictorial Review, The Red Book Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Woman's World...
Brehm also designed numerous illustrations for novels, advertisements (Coca-Cola, Texaco, the American Red Cross...) According to his great-grandson, he served with Norman Rockwell as one of several judges for the very first Miss America Pageant in 1923 (AskArt profile).
George Brehm was a member of the prestigious Society of Illustrators.