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The faithful Beasts wept round the dead body of the Prince, from The Three Princes and their Beasts for Andrew Lang's The Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1906)
#henry justice ford#art#illustration#golden age of illustration#1900s#1900s art#vintage art#vintage illustration#vintage#british art#british artist#books#book illustration#andrew lang#fairy tale#fairy tales#fairytale art#animals#classic art
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#collage art#mixed media#traditional art#nostalgiacore#analog collage#vintage art#vintage aesthetic#junk journal#glitchy art
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Art by Mariano Peccinetti
#Mariano Peccinetti#art#graphic art#graphic design#album cover#cover art#retro#retrofuture#vintage#vintage art#surrealism#surrealist art#surreal#collage#21th century art#21th century#aesthetic#eye#magic#black and white
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'They Spruce Themselves Up (Los Caprichos)'. Francisco de Goya. 1797-1799.
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Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.
This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)
If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!
Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...
Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!
You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!
Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!
#talkin pasm#art advice#vintage art#the bottom 3 are#my art#but the rest is pulled from old comics :)#also you don't always need halftone or dot brushes to make vintage looking art! most vintage art is painted anyway
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#caelestishound#art#artists on tumblr#artwork#vintage art#pokemon#reshiram#ukiyo e#fanart#ink#pokemon art
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‘Galatée’ by Charles Jalabert (French, 1819-1901)
#vintage art#classic art#art#art history#old art#art details#vintage#painting#moody art#oil painting#Charles Jalabert
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pov: you fell down the vintage strawberry shortcake rabbit hole and now can’t get out
I just love the 80s designs
#strawberry shortcake#strawberry shortcake vintage#vintage art#character art#character illustration#cute illustration#vintage illustration#80s strawberry shortcake#orange blossom#lemon meringue#angel cake#almond tea#blueberry muffin#character artwork
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Alfredo Baruffi (1873-1948), 'Primo Specchio' (First Mirror) ''Novissima'', #5, 1905
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Illustration from The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)
#virgil finlay#art#illustration#1940s#1940s art#vintage art#vintage illustration#vintage#pulp art#american art#american artist#american illustrators#fantasy#fantasy art#the ship of ishtar#books#book illustration#classic art
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Tigerlily 🐯💐
#tiger#tigers#big cats#tiger lily#tigerlily#tiger lilies#cottagecore#cottagecore art#countrycore#cats#vintage art#art
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Fell and falling
#gomens#good omens#aziracrow#crowly x aziraphale#crowley being silly#op#crowley#crowley x aziraphale#neil gaiman#aziraphale#digital art#gomens fanart#good omens fanart#digital illustration#Kaison:OneDaySketches#vintage art#(?) maybe#falling for 6 thousands years or what#aziraphale and crowley#anthony j crowley#fanart#angel#queer#innefable husbands#a/c#someone asked so I add:#innefable wives#and why not#innefable spouses
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Still watching this youtube channel about what I can only describe as "Dark Classical art" and this one absolutely floored me because I was unaware of it and I want to share it because it changes my perspective on this artist completely.
You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He's the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.
This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain's deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as "a tragic display of a painter's failing battle with schizophrenia."
The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.
Ok got all that?
So here's the thing.
Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although "Schizophrenia" is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting "normal" pictures of cats.
The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.
Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.
4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly
I knew all about "the Schizophrenic cat Guy" but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.
Which is why I wanted to share this information which was new to me. And because I think it's important.
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'Mary at the Loom'. William Henry Margetson. 1895.
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