Coles Phillips (1880-1927), ''Good Housekeeping'', Feb. 1913
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Have some Pushing Daisies fanart! (full blame goes to @wurzelbertzwerg for introducing me to this awesome show ;)
I really like the style of the show and thought it would be awesome to combine it with another unique art style I love, namely that of Coles Phillips!
Specifically, I modelled this after Coles Phillips's illustration "Forward and Back", which, funnily enough, is one of his covers for 'Life' magazine 😉(you can check out Phillips's illustration under the cut):
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Fadeaway: The Remarkable Imagery of Coles Phillips
Coles Phillips - Tea - 1912
Coles Phillips - Fadeaway Girl reading book in window nook
Coles Phillips - Woman with Her Dog - 1912
Coles Phillips - Letters from Shenanigan Valley Idaho
Coles Phillips - Illusion - 1912
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Coles Phillips - Juggling Hearts - 1913
Coles Phillips - Tea - 1912
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Reading by the bookshelf - Clarence Coles Phillips, 1915
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October 1982. Bill Sienkiewicz tries his hand at a Coles Phillips Fadeaway Girl effect, with mixed results: The effect is undeniably striking, but the filigree on Scarlet's dress seems overly complicated, obsfuscating both her silhouette and the dress's actual borders more than is really desirable with this layout. Sienkiewicz's interior art in this issue is also striking (though less dramatic than the cover), evidencing his shift away from the Neal Adams pastiche of his early comics work, and mostly compensating for Doug Moench's unnecessarily florid script.
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Cover of ‘Good Housekeeping’ magazine (March, 1914) with an illustration by Coles Phillips.
Restoration by: magscanner.
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Coles Phillips (1880-1927) - Collier’s Weekly magazine cover 23 April 1921
Gouache and watercolour on board. 21.25 x 14.75 inches, 54 x 37.5 cm.
Estimate: US$15,000-25,000.
Sold Heritage Auctions, Dallas, 4 Nov 2022 for US$12,500 incl B.P.
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Coles Phillips, Watkins Mulsified Cocoanut Oil, 1917
From Taschen's "All-American Ads 1900-1919".
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Coles Phillips - Bag and Baggage, LIFE Magazine cover, December 15. 1921
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The Fadeaway Girl
There's a particular technique that remains popular for some kinds of commercial and decorative arts where the color of a character's clothing and/or hair is matched to the background so they appear to partially disappear into field of negative space — I just saw a piece of comics fan art in that mode.
This style was popularized more than a century ago by a commercial artist named Coles Phillips (1880–1927), whose "Fadeaway Girls" (or "Fadeaway Ladies") were featured on a variety of magazine covers and advertisements of the time. Here's a small sampling from GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazine:
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