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Red Blue and Yellow Dominant In Artwork
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The Cosy Little World In Illustration
Artists have various ways of deliberately distorting naturalistic perspective to achieve a certain mood, for example, a cosy little world.
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Cartoonish and Highly Stylised Cats
Cats all look pretty much the same, right? No? Well, compared to the diversity of artist impressions they do. Check out this wide variety of creatures, all successfully coded as cats.
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Luggage and Suitcases In Art and Storytelling
Luggage, suitcases, boxes and other forms of containment are useful motifs for storytellers. Find a standout example in the lyrical short story “Prelude”, one of Katherine Mansfield’s finest.
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Snow Play In Art and Illustration
A whole town comes together in carnivalesque fashion for a snow fight in the wonderful scene below.
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Baseball Art and Storytelling
Examples from sports illustrators and book covers
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Posties, Letterboxes and Postal Services in Illustration
There will come a time when people don’t remember the postal service as it exists now (or used to exist). Here are some images which now seem a little quaint.
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Sunsets and Sunrises in Art and Illustration
I can’t be sure which of these illustrations depict sunrise and which sunset, but it’s funny how sometimes you still get a sense of the hour of day. How do artists do that?
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Wrapping Gifts and Presents in Art and Storytelling
They were at breakfast table, and the boy looked up from his plate curiously. He was an alert-eyed youngster with flat bond hair and a quick, nervous manner. He didn’t understand what the sudden tension was about, but he did know that today was his birthday, and he wanted harmony above all. Somewhere in the […]
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Symbolism of Bridges and Rainbows
Why bridges and rainbows? What have they got to do with each other? Well, the archetypal bridge is an arc shape, like the rainbow. Symbolically, bridges and rainbows can be similar.
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Cats In Disguise
Cats are good at hiding. This is probably why, in our human stories, we like to anthropomorphise cats and imagine they are in disguise.
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Ship Decks in Art and Illustration
In art and storytelling, the ship deck is a stage.
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What is a serigraph?
A Serigraph is a rendition of an original artwork created by the silk-screen printing process. The Archer Art Gallery “Serigraph” refers to a type of screen printing, which in turn influences the sort of art that can be produced. This particular form of screen printing is labour intensive and involves a colour professional who separates […]
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Two Worlds In The Same Illustration
These illustrations show two or more separate environments in a single shot.
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Buses In Art and Storytelling
Miss Harper was going home, although the night was wet and nasty. Miss Harper disliked traveling at any time, and she particularly disliked traveling on this dirty small bus, which was her only way of getting home; she had frequently complained to the bus company about their service, because it seemed that no matter where […]