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Signage In Art And Storytelling
Signage featuring prominently in art
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Bees and Wasps in Art and Illustration
A collection of bees and wasps in art and illustration
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Messing About In Boats
Ursula Le Guin once had a conversation with Halderman, which is ostensibly about boats but is actually about writing. ALISON HALDERMAN: You do invent wonderful landscapes. The Earthsea trilogy creates such a vivid picture of the sea — have you done a lot of sailing? URSULA LE GUIN: All that sailing is complete fakery. It’s […]
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Dark, Shadowy Interiors
Some of these paintings serve as dark frames to draw attention to a scene outside a window. But every afternoon in winter there’s a period between full light and dark, where you haven’t quite turned the lights on yet. These paintings capture this mood.
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Illustrations With Castles In The Distance
Castles in the background of illustrations
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The Colour Orange in Illustration
Beautiful examples of the colour orange
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Card Games In Illustration
Before TV and the internet people had card games.
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Fences, Gates and Walls in Art and Storytelling
Fences in art and illustration have various uses, some composition related, some symbolic.
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Yellow Backgrounds In Illustration
A collection of illustrations with yellow as background.
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Baking In Art And Illustration
Bakers and baking in art and illustration
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Fantasy Laboratories In Art And Illustration
Baddies conjuring potions up in labs and goodies coming up with solutions
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Women And Girls Reading In Art And Illustration
Reading is a girl-coded activity. I haven’t done any deliberate gender curation here — paintings and illustrations of women and girls with books, letters and magazines are simply far more common. However, you will find far more men (fathers) reading newspapers.
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Carriages, Carts, Chariots and Coaches in Art and Illustration
From various angles, all through the ages
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Uplighting In Art And Illustration
Uplighting is when the main light source in a work of art is coming from below the subject. This lighting almost always lends a creepy or outright scary vibe. If you’ve ever shone a torch under your chin while on camp you’ll be well-aware of how different you look. Few (if any?) people are rendered more beautiful with this lighting…
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Numerous “Birds” Roosting In Trees In Art And Illustration
Some of these are not birds and are creepy.