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6 posts tagged Illustration
Jacqui Oakley - I Put a Spell on You
Jacqui’s awesome compilation for designers.mx, an unlikely mix of Krautrock, Ethiopian Jazz, Cambodian Pop, Surf Rock, Exotica & Louisiana-swamp-voodoo-chants, combine to conjure rhythms of a primal journey – sometimes fragile, sometimes violent.
One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula - Dengue Fever
Dancing Drums - Ananda Shankar
Love Dance - Les Baxter
Yègellé Tezeta - Mulatu Astatqé
Oh Yeah - Can
Misiriou - Martin Denny
Sleepwalk - The Ventures
Danse Kalinda Ba Doom - Dr. John
The Three - Secret Chiefs 3
I Put A Spell On You - Screaming Jay Hawkins
Jamie Lawson - Arcade
Jamie’s second mix for designers.mx. Some quieter & prettier tunes here, but still alien, psychedelic & cinematic* enough to keep your brain kindled. Lots of strings, twangs, la-la-las & ooo-ooo-ooos. Was looking to get some of that weird dreaminess across in the art too – apologies if anyone was expecting something a little more proggy…
*Les Fusées by Alain Goraguer is from the awesome animated movie Fantastic Planet (La Planete Sauvage), Come Maddalena by Sun City Girls is a cover of Ennio Morricone’s Come Un Madrigale from the soundtrack to Dario Argento’s Four Flies on Grey Velvet (Quattro Mosche Di Velluto Grigio) and J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus) is the dude who scores the cartoon masterpiece The Venture Bros.
Black Shabbis: The Trail of Libels - Jamie Saft
The River - Ananda Shankar
Les Fusées - Alain Goraguer
The Yelm Sessions - Eyvind Kang
Daily Living - Kaada
The End Times - Secret Chiefs 3
Marcha De La Santa Sangre - Orthodox
Habibaty (My Beloved) - Omar Khorshid
Come Maddalena - Sun City Girls
O Putrid Sun (For Yuko) - Foetus
Dushan Milic - Park Legends
“Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived”
Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley
Art by Dushan Milic
Charles Ribart - Elephant Triomphal
Big thanks to Bibliodyssey.
New Cornucopia
A FUTURE WORLD - JACQUI OAKLEY
This was an illustration for Theme Magazine. Artists were asked for their vision of the future and my topic was concerning the food supply. So, why not focus on genetically modified food, and paint a retro-futuristic vision of giant vegetables? Below the final ink & oil painting is the process…painting, inking, and pencil drawing.
Heinrich Lefler & Joseph Urban
Vintage Children’s Illustrations / Marienkind (1914)
Illustrations from a collection of fairytales, which were originally published around 1904 by German publisher “Scholz Verlag”, and have been reprinted by “Verlag Neues Berlin” in 1981.
Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919) and his brother-in-law, Joseph Urban (1872-1933) are Austrian artists associated with the Golden Age of Illustration - they are particularly linked with the Jungendstil movement (the German variant of Art Nouveau).
Although Urban was born in Vienna, Austria, he died in New York City. Not only was he known as a children’s book illustrator, he was also trained as an architect and was known also for his theatrical design. He immigrated to the United States in 1912 to become the art director of the Boston Opera Company. Two years later he moved to New York where he designed productions for the Ziegfeld Follies and the Metropolitan Opera.
William Randolph Hearst was an important client and supporter. Most of Urban’s architectural work in the United States has been demolished, with the exceptions of Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and The New School and the base of The Hearst Tower in New York City.
The color gel Urban Blue (Roscolux #81) is named for him.
images found via allerleirau flickr page Other information found via Spirit of the Ages and Wikipedia
