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Sweet illustrations.
I’d forgotten how great those old book illustrations were.

But let’s be honest, they just don’t hold a candle to the ‘art work’ of Dragon Ball Z.

I’ve always liked the works of Anton Otto Fischer, who surfed that same timeline. He was prolific, not just for illustrations for Harper’s Weekly and a long career at The Saturday Evening Post (1910-1960), but for his paintings of ships and life at sea. His style was more realistic than Pogamy.

I first found him through reading my father’s 1931 copy of Moby Dick, which had been his father’s before him. Those pictures are indelible in my memory, and were of his style so strongly that I can instantly spot anything he turned a brush too all these many decades later.

Never heard of Fischer, Drew. Thanks for that.

I have an enormous ‘inspiration’ file of illustrators. I think I’ll tap into it when I’m stuck for a post. I picked Pogany at random.

Actually, I started with Walter Jardine, but the internet kept showing me Pogany when I searched for Jardine, so I went with the flow. I like Jardine even more, but he’s more obscure. Apparently.

Jardine was new to me but I found lots of info online. Looks like he did a lot of advert work for Toothey’s beer and Stamina trousers in the 30s, but his earlier pen and ink stuff is pretty good. Also found James Montgomery Flagg, and the whole of Arthur Guptill’s Drawing With Pen And Ink online. None of it is the garish splat of Dragonball Z, but it is art.

The internets get better all the time!

It was the images search that was muddling up Jardine and Pogany. I had some good stuff on my hard drive, but I was being lazy.

Guptill’s book is considered the classic how-to. I’ve a well-thumbed copy, natch.

You want a treat, check out Franklin Booth. I was told he went blind toward the end of his life due to the high detail he worked in…but Wikipedia doesn’t confirm. *shrug*

Stoaty, a little off topic but what a cheesy story…and right near you. http://tinyurl.com/ycokcone

What a very silly story, thefritz.

We were exposed to Veganuary a few days ago…

Now we have a competitor, thanks to diligent work by the BBC, called “Januhairy.”

You’re Welcome.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46747452

I too have to check into taxes. This year I have to use the long form of the 1040 for the first time, and I need to download it and see what it asks for. My financial situation is somewhat better than the first half of 2018, so no doubt I’ll owe more than the ca. $80 I’ve been paying. I’m just worried that it’s going to require me to attach all sorts of schedules A, G, and BB as well as my W-2.

Thanks for the tip on F. Booth. Incredible. His work “war on the tiger” is amazing. His oil painting “Autumn” has the same level of detail; it almost looks like a photograph.

While stumbling around on Google I also found impressionist painter John Folinsbee and am rapt. It turns out he lived a few miles away from me in New Hope Pennsylvania and made hundreds of paintings of this area 100 years ago.