Margot Glass

Margot Glass, Envelope with Yellow Shadow, Watercolor and pencil still life

2016

Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...

In the miniature Pigeon 1, Dina Brodsky lovingly renders the notoriously undesirable bird in vibrant blue, purple, and pearly gray ink, gouache, and watercolor. The bird is made demu...

This Harry Beckhoff illustration is masterfully rendered and intricately designed in line and wash. It's as abstract as it's representational with its graphic style, clean lines, and flat patterning. Every element in the composition works in harmony without a line out of place. The flat and abstract nature of the work rivals that of the great modernist painters of the 1930s. Perhaps this was done for a major newsstand magazine like Collier's. Although he studied with Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn, he didn't pursue the style of painterly brushstrokes and impastos. Instead, he defined his forms with flat shapes, whose internal forms are defined by thin lines. The emphasis is more on silhouette and line than it is on texture and lighting. Beckhoff also described his work as having been influenced by illustrators like Pierre Brissaud...

A modern illustration by American artist Ray Quigley depicting two men inside of a church.