Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illustration. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Enoch Bolles
American pinup painter Enoch Bolles (3 March 1883 - 16 March 1976) was one of the earliest and most widely circulated glamour illustrators. But he also worked a lot in the advertising industry, creating hundreds of illustrations for different products, including Sun-Maid Raisins and Zippo lighters. Ha studied at the National Academy of Design and was first published in 1914, on the covers of joke books. He then went on to paint covers for different spicy pulp magazines. Today he is mostly known as a pinup artist though, so here are a few of his colorful, salacious women!
Monday, August 04, 2014
Fyodor Pavlov
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| Photo: Adrian Buckmaster |
Russian born artist Fyodor Pavlov's (pictured above) art "inhabits a palace of old-world aestheticism with a cock-shaped summerhouse". His preferred media is watercolor and ink, and his illustrations depict subjects from the Edwardian Era and the Jazz Age, to muses of our current day, creating art that brings new life to the past. From dandies and fancy ladies, to burlesque dancers and erotic scenes his illustrations has a distinct emphasis on detail.
Pavlov also produces and co-direct the flag ship branch of Dr Sketchy's in New York - where he now lives with his creative partner and spouse Lewd Alfred Douglas and their very spoiled cat... Here is an assortment of his lovely art.
To see more of Pavlov's art, please visit his web site here, or his Facebook page here!
Monday, January 21, 2013
Mrs Murphy
I have a friend I have never seen without a gorgeous dress covering her fabulous curves, and a pair of high heels on her feet. Her name is Mrs. Murphy! She is the epitome of a confident woman who won't let anyone or anything stand in the way of letting her be the lady she is, and live her life as she wants it! And now to what she works with - in her own words:
"Mrs. Murphy invites you to a never ending cocktail party. In her presence, you always have that bubbling feeling that life is wonderful, you are the hottest at the party and that the great adventure is just about to begin...Mrs. Murphy's mission is to beautify life, and give us a little smile on our faces while doing it. She designs not only individual products but whole worlds, or rather whole universes...Because why stop at the sky when you can be a star...!"
She is an illustrator and designer who has won prizes and awards for her work both in Sweden and abroad, and during the years I have seen her design everything from gorgeous dresses, to calendars and condom cases - like the one below which she gave me at a party once...
"Mrs. Murphy invites you to a never ending cocktail party. In her presence, you always have that bubbling feeling that life is wonderful, you are the hottest at the party and that the great adventure is just about to begin...Mrs. Murphy's mission is to beautify life, and give us a little smile on our faces while doing it. She designs not only individual products but whole worlds, or rather whole universes...Because why stop at the sky when you can be a star...!"
She is an illustrator and designer who has won prizes and awards for her work both in Sweden and abroad, and during the years I have seen her design everything from gorgeous dresses, to calendars and condom cases - like the one below which she gave me at a party once...
Mrs. Murphy says it like it is! And her ingenious quotes can be seen on many of her products, like for example:
A MacBook Pro case, which lining and binding can be color-customized.
"COFFEE...??? Where's my freakin' champagne...?!?" Coffee mug with a lid. Need one of those...
Throw pillows. GREAT for pillow fights!
"OOPS! Did I but champagne instead of milk again...?" Drink coasters. Love this quote! If you're lactose sensitive - like me - this might have happened to you a few times...
Kitchen towels.
iPhone 4 case.
Note books...
...and many other things. If you're having a bad, grey day, and you see one of these quotes, your day will instantly get a bit better. Trust me! I follow her on Facebook, and now and then she puts up newly invented quotes that immediately brightens my day by reminding me that I - and everybody else - are just as fabulous as they make themselves, and that the everyday-glamour is in the little things you do for yourself! Except for the quotes she also spreads inspiring pictures on the web. So if you need some encouragement during the long weeks, I strongly advice you to follow her on Facebook! Here's the link:
If you want to check out her web store it's here (the Swedish one, roll down to the bottom to find your country's store):
Thursday, June 07, 2012
John Willie
John Willie (born John Alexander Scout Coutts, 1902) was a pioneer when it comes to fetish photography and bondage illustrations. Between 1946-1949 he published - somewhat irregularly - his own magazine Bizarre. This magazine included photographs, drawings of costume designs, and letters from readers, concerning things like high heels, bondage, sadomasochism, transvestism, corsets, and body modification.
As a bondage artist Willie is most known for his character Sweet Gwendoline, a rather naïve blond damsel in distress, who unfortunately finds herself tied up in scene after scene. She always gets rescued - and tied up gain, but only for benevolent reasons - by Secret Agent U-69. A third character who reappears is the moustache-clad villain Sir Dystic D'Arcy, that Willie based on himself. Here are some of his illustrations!
As a bondage artist Willie is most known for his character Sweet Gwendoline, a rather naïve blond damsel in distress, who unfortunately finds herself tied up in scene after scene. She always gets rescued - and tied up gain, but only for benevolent reasons - by Secret Agent U-69. A third character who reappears is the moustache-clad villain Sir Dystic D'Arcy, that Willie based on himself. Here are some of his illustrations!
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