Category: Illustration
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Matty Burnham
Matty Burnham is an English artist and illustrator working in ink and watercolor. His subjects are usually architectural, often of modest little cottages and houses. He captures these with varied ink lines drawn with a fude fountain pen, which allows artists to vary the width and character of their line by turning the pen at…
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Peter de Sève (update 2026)
It’s August! Headed for the shore, you lemmings? Looks like fun! I’ve written about illustrator and concept artist Peter de Sève three times in the past, but that’s not often enough to feature his delightful, whimsical and insightful illustrations. They are, in effect, beautifully rendered cartoons, and I never tire of them. Rather than going…
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ilLumi
ilLumi is an artist about whom I now very little, though likely a digital concept artist and illustrator, presumably from Japan. Most often whimsical, but sometimes straightforwardly realistic, the work often employs deep cotrasts between light and dark, with sources of illumination playing key roles. ilLumi doesn’t appear to have a dedicated website, but there…
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Frederick Cayley Robinson
Frederick Cayley Robinson was an English painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He carried some of the style and approaches from the late 19th into the early 20th, even as they were fading in popularity. Notably, he was influenced by the literary medievalism of the Pre-Raphaelite painters and other…
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N.C. Wyeth’s Independence Day
Independence Day (At Concord Bridge), N.C. Wyeth, oil on canvas, 33 x 30 in. (85 x 77 cm), Image is from a Sotheby’s auction in 2021. (Click on the image twice to get the larger version.) Presumably the original is in a privete collection. The great American painter and illustrator N.C. Wyeth, like his teacher…
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John Mattos (update)
John Mattos is an award winning illustrator with an impressive client list, based in California, who I first featured back in 2008. He works in a beautiful Art Deco influenced style that takes advantage of the crispness and smooth areas of gradients made possible by vector art. His striking compositional sensibility has produced a number…