illustration art

 

These illustration categories in painting, digital art, 3D animation and portraits are galleries of artwork and illustration art in a variety of mediums. All styles and techniques can be adjusted to fit your company or personal needs. All work will always go beyond your expectations, and equally important, it will always meet your appointed deadline.

 

We're pleased to be hosting the J C Leyendecker studies where you can see several examples of how Joseph's mind worked when designing the essentials of his advertising and slick cover work.

Kent Steine's pin-up art was the main display at Windy City Sights, July 2006.

This political cartoon was done for the old comic LIFE, dated 21 February 1918 (art by Harry Grant Dart). At the time, the US was at war with Germany, but the carping (and squirrel throwing) can only remind one of the current crop of gloomists and defeatists. Also of note, while some in the audience might not be buying it, the enemy itself is in the pit, orchestrating the show (can you say dino media?).

Meanwhile...

Also coming soon is an opportunity for collectors to buy and sell original art work. You'll be able to click on Artwork For Sale (at left) for more information (just not yet!). We're enthusiastic about this based on how well American Art Archives' listed illustrators are doing in the search engines, which means your artwork gets exceptional promotional value.

It's been some months since I've re-published the AAA site, but much work has been going on behind the scenes. There are now

illustration art.

How is AAA fairing on the WWW? Not too shabby. I'm excited to see many AAA bios so high on search returns. Using Google, for example (placing the names properly in quotes), the J C Leyendecker page is number 2, George Petty is number 7, Rolf Armstrong is number 4, John Lagatta is number 1, Edward Penfield is number 6, E F Ward is number 1, Bob Peak is number 4, Herbert Paus is number 1, W T Benda is number 2, Enoch Bolles is number 3, Neysa McMein is number 2, Robert Maguire is number 1 (etc.). Some of the artist bio pages are too new to be spidered up the ranks while others, just because of who they are (Rockwell, Parrish) will take much longer to get there, but it will happen.

Also happy to report that my church, Discovery, is now in its new building in Simi Valley and we'll be adding more pages to the Not By Bread Alone testimonies.

Last, but definitely not least, articles by Frederic B. Taraba (Illustration House Director) on Matt Clark and Saul Tepper have been added. Illustrator Kent Steine also provides his first-hand knowledge of Harry Anderson in an expanded article on the master. And Norm Platnick of Enchantment Ink contributes his expertise to an article on Coles Phillips while Richard Strell covers Vic Herman.

The Taraba and Steine articles were originally published in illustration art Step-by-Step magazine. Not only are those issues long gone, but now, so is the magazine. By re-publishing them on the AAA site, those articles not only live again, ready to be read and enjoyed seven days a week, but now have larger and more numerous images than was possible in the magazine. And in the Harry Anderson article, Steine is able to re-insert material that the Step-by-Step editors removed illustration art (think of it as the Steine director's cut).

I understand that more than half the USA has access to high-speed internet at this point, so I'm increasing the size and number of graphics on each page when I get the chance.