Mid century illustration

Aurelius Battaglia was an American illustrator, muralist, writer, and director. It looks like he's sporting a very early pair of Mickey M ears in this photograph, well after all, he's not alone in liking that Disney mouse lol ! Born in Washington, D.C., in 1910 the son of Giuseppe and Concetta Battaglia, who had emigrated from Cefalù, Italy. Aurelius went on to attend the Corcoran…

Illustration by Robert Carola Improvising Jazz 1965

Illustration from "A Spy Among Us", fiction feature from Kayak magazine, March April 2008. This is a slightly earlier version of this illo ( the final is blue, with no paper texture ) , but I like how it turned out so I thought I'd share it. I did the colour separations by hand on paper to try and achieve the 2 colour look of mid to late 1950s kid's magazines that were printed on newsprint ( Humpty Dumpty, Children's Digest, etc. ) . One of four illustrations for this story.

Tom Eckersley was born in Lowton, Lancashire in 1914. He spent much of his childhood drawing, and at 16 he enrolled at Salford School of Art. Here he was awarded the Heywood medal for his dedicated…

Art Seiden was a truly astounding artist who (again) very little information is available on the internet. He was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1918. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for ei…

small spot illustration for the daily mail

Satoshi Hashimoto