#really nice use of leyendecker's style

[chiropteracupola]

a little pain now, to save a great deal more pain later

[flintlock fortress is a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]

#em draws stuff #flintlock fortress #team fortress 2 #blood #today on the em cupola show: wild self-indulgence. but hey I feel Bad so I'll draw what I Like. and today that's medical procedures. #someone leaned over my shoulder while I was drawing this and asked 'is that bloodletting' and they were Almost Right so I'm endlessly proud #in fact it is smallpox inoculation! #sorry to everyone who I have bothered with my Smallpox Talk in recent memory but It Will Happen Again. #the game style itself is kind of rockwell and leyendecker-y to me so I wanted to do something with a similar look to their work #had a lot of goals for this piece and I think I really did achieve all of them quite nicely #could I keep these guys recognizable without showing their full faces? yes I think so! #could I make 'getting a mild case of smallpox with the lads' seem a bit romantic even? yes to that too. #also. scout tattoos make an appearance. (do not go looking for them in any other art of him on account of I Forgor) #and a new look for ansel (this man dresses Boring but that is no fun for me to draw) #'backstory relevant' I say as I do not discuss any of these guys' backstories again. #'that's for us to know and for you to find out' I say while giving you no way at all to find out #have been in a constant state of 'by gosh having a little less blood in me would make this situation better' for several days now #and while I am using Normal methods to improve the situation drawing such things does work a bit to heal the mind #'we're doing just fine' says local guy who is madly drawing the same guys over and over again

[aprofessionalwithoutstandards]

as of late, ive seen the tf2 fandom on here kinda latch onto norman rockwells painting. godspeed, i hope mr rockwells soul/ghost/whatever is happy to see us applying his paintings to our funny little murder men

I've heard Leyendecker was a big art style inspiration for tf2 itself and I wouldn't be surprised if Rockwell was too. The influence of early/mid-20th century Extremely American style of art is definitely apparent in tf2, especially in supplementary materials, like this cover for the Smissmas Story comic which is directly inspired by Saturday Evening Post covers

[Image ID: The cover of the tf2 update comic "A Smissmas Story", taking the form of a cover for a faux magazine called "The Badlands Holiday Reader" with the subheader "An Illustrated Guide to the Perils of the Season." An illustration, loosely imitating the style of Norman Rockwell, displays Santa Claus punching a man in striped pajamas in front of a Christmas tree as the man fires a shot from a revolver into the air. The illustration is captioned "I FOUGHT SANTA AND LIVED" with the subcaption "True Tales of Smissmas Courage, p.37". End ID]

So I think it's nice when people do studies of Rockwell or Leyendecker or other 20th century American artists with tf2 characters in them. It's a really fun way to tie fan content back to the source material and its inspirations and its time period and all that

#ask #anon #tf2 #team fortress 2 #norman rockwell

[geminid]

The other ask about college reminded me, I just brought a physical copy of superbright to my college professor, I took digital painting with him and now he's letting me sit in on his life drawing class. He did a quick flip through and he liked it! He also immediately said "yeah if you like this art get into the history, who did they learn from?" I've only been following you for 2ish years? And it's just been what's landed on my dash. But I looove your pieces, the coloring on the backgrounds versus how Leo and Takumi are drawn, and then the pieces like the mainly pink diner.

So yeah mainly wanted to say you're super cool! Things that you learned from would be neat to see but no pressure.

hi i was honestly very shocked to read that you would show this to your professor who is probably a really great artist but im glad he liked it? ???

i answered the rest of this under the cut

as far as my art history goes, i have no academic background in art so i'm just making stuff up. i think like a lot of kids I got my roots in wanting to draw like shoujo manga, particularly the big eyed round faces of the early 2000s. I would just try to copy the eyes or something. To this day I honestly don't really look at tutorials or watch speedpaints i kind of just look at finished art and try to emulate the things I like about them. It's very simplistic I think and perhaps means I don't make art that's as clean or efficient as people who actually go out and try to learn how pro artists actually draw.

i went on pixiv a lot as a teen and followed like 1000+ artists and looked at a lot of art all the time. I was really enamored by people who could draw characters and backgrounds, like fuzichoco. (this is a super weird fun fact but one of my favorite artists in like 2011-2012 who specialized in like drawing beautiful girls with beautiful backgrounds ended up getting into leokumi under a different name/account and i was their mutual! and i didnt realize this until rather recently. im too shy to share the name tho. my teen self is throttling me btw). I Really wanted to learn how to draw backgrounds so i had to go through the struggle of teaching myself perspective and later on downloading 3d software so i could see boxes on the same plane at angles lol.

When I see art I like I try to capture the essence of what it is I liked about it in a piece (maybe one time its desaturated colors, and the next its dramatically long legs, or adding blur to the foreground), and i decide if it worked out and I want to keep doing it. Some stuff i definitely continue to use is i draw upper eyelashes the way i do because of Sata (touken ranbu, feh artist) and i started drawing leo with weird non-blond hair colors because of Araki (the jjba mangaka, who often colors his characters in alternate palettes than their "canon"). Even though i think there are stuff im a bit rigid about, like i always kinda stay in the realm of anime style, I'm still trying to keep trying out stuff I see in other artists, not just even anime artists but everyone's favorite Leyendecker or Mucha, or I'll take photos of random stuff to file away as an idea. Like I have a photo of leaves my coworker collected that have a nice green to pink gradient that I took for inspiration.

As far as the diner picture goes I think to pull off that piece I needed to practice making art with less colors and also less contrast. Similar shades of pink take up most of the picture with teals being a secondary color and avoiding adding other colors in large amounts. I think the linework is doing a lot of work in that piece. I had to google a photo of a person sitting at a diner table for the perspective.

idk if this answers anything but it was fun to think about?

#nids replies #team-indigo

[ufonaut]

here’s the ranking nobody asked for, done purely from memory (which means there may be half a dozen outfits that escape me at the present moment). my favourite alan scott civilian outfits: 

10. captain of a sinking ship

you may be thinking. well, it’s just a black suit. but the fact of the matter is that -- as the entries below will prove -- it used to be that you couldn’t pay alan to wear black so this sharp look takes a particular significance when you know it comes from all-star comics 1976 #64 when gbc goes resolutely bankrupt and the last of alan’s sanity takes a dive out the window. it’s a great suit! a real classic!

9. relaxing at home :)

every other good alan outfit comes immediately before an all out mental breakdown and this one’s no different! direct from comic cavalcade 1942 #19, artist paul reinman gives us a deliciously cozy little outfit: pyjama pants & dressing gown after a hard night of crime-fighting. the ascot just makes it for me!

8. lonesome cowboy

alan’s vacation outfits are famously unbeatable (you’ll see what i mean in just a moment) but this fringe jacket & cowboy hat look from all-american comics 1939 #99 is a real early one and a personal favourite. alan goes on a fishing day trip upstate with streak the wonder dog and makes sure to dress for the occasion!

7. cool & casual

post-bankruptcy and whilst living in jay garrick’s guest room, alan started dressing a lot more casually now that he wasn’t busy playing ceo all day long. i love this look so much, the sports jacket with the turtleneck underneath is simply fantastic and the bright colours are immensely in character. a real winner from green lantern 1960 #109!

6. cool & casual (continued)

i always enjoy alan’s personal style when he’s off the clock and this specific outfit from solomon grundy 2009 #7 feels like a nice little continuation of the above, it denotes a genuine preference for these jackets even if the colour palette is reversed. ranking-wise, places could be switched in either direction with these two but i’m a big fan of the red!

5. something to hide

back in the nineties when alan had regained his youth via the starheart and ended up looking as young as his children, he’d spent most of his time as sentinel and there had been very little seen of him at gbc for various reasons. chase 1998 #8 dares to break that pattern and proposes that when attending events as the head of gotham broadcasting, alan would take certain steps to try and hide his unnatural youth -- note the unnecessary glasses, the never-before-seen slicked back hair. i love the details and boy do i love that manic grin!

4. short shorts

i mean. really. what is there to say? alan’s wearing short shorts while on a cruise with the rest of the gang in justice society of america 1992 #6. it speaks for itself!

3. mr ceo

paul smith’s leyendecker-style alan scott in the golden age 1993 #1 is perhaps the greatest representation of Mr. GBC CEO -- one of the most vital aspects of who alan is as a person. it’s a fantastic outfit, clearly tailored, and in milder tones than he’d generally wear. this one’s all business and up there with the alan designs & looks of all time!

2. cool and collected

two things alan has never been but this outfit might have you believing otherwise! this is utterly magnificent to me. the sunglasses, the shirt & blazer, the undercover bruce wayne flinching in the background -- it’s all there. detective comics 1937 #786 gives us one of the best off-duty alan looks and i’ll stand by that forever and ever!

1. variations on a theme

at the end of the day, paul reinman’s variations on alan’s every day outfits throughout his run on comic cavalcade 1942 are completely unbeatable to me! the characteristically bright colours, era-appropriate semi-formal looks, the preference for the green suit (his best suit!) sometimes worn with its matching trousers and sometimes not, details like the bracelet in the bottom middle panel or the ever-changing ties... this is the absolute height of alan’s non-lantern outfits!

thank you & goodnight

#alan scott #green lantern #doiby dickles (who is sometimes present) #paul reinman #(who features more than anybody) #u can reblog #NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS BUT I HAD FUN AND THATS WHAT MATTERS #'does alan dress gay' - the greatest thread in the history of the jsa locked by a moderator after 12568 pages of heated debate

[possumnest]

Hello there fellow bug! I was wondering what sorts of sources, historical periods, techniques etc. you draw on for inspiration for your art? I'm completely captivated with your style, especially the more Medieval-esque pieces and was curious to know more! Have a nice day! :D

i hadn't really considered what styles/artists inspire me so this was a bit more challenging to answer than i thought it would be!

ive always been really drawn to inuit art (there is a local museum with a permanent inuit artist exhibit that i really love), medieval european art (especially mosaic), and cave art. i think what im most drawn to in all of these is the unique 2 dimensional poses/shapes used to convey nature in limited space, as well as the focus on ornate patterns where they may not actually be in the subject!! woodblock prints, linocut prints, and tapestries/carpets in general have also been very inspiring to me stylistically, and my #1 favorite subjects are always invertebrates, birds, and biology

tuulirjuaq (great big loon) by mayoreak ashoona (2009) / pelican in her piety from the palatine chapel in aachen, germany (800 AD), maloca of the jaguar from chiribiquete national park in colombia (20,000 BCE

honestly i dont think theres a single artist whos work ive shared here or anywhere else that im not inspired by, but i tried my best to pull together a few major artistic inspirations: @puyogho, bill watterson, @fruitblush, @.pansybeast, denis sarazhin, @nepeteaa, @jadenvargen, jc leyendecker, @001_readmybio, @davidjrpalos , @stoffbergart , @sarlisart , mark maggiori, @lizbethrart , @littlestpersimmon , @junothewizzard, @eleheba , AND SO MANY MORE!!!!!!

if you are interested, i use @augustiforme to share art i love occasionally, my pinterest is full of art i really enjoy as well as folders of photo references, and im always sharing art i love on twitter!!! thank you for asking, this was a great chance for some artistic introspection 🪱🪱🪱

#asks #bugenjoyer #also hello fellow bug!

[dear-kumari]

Hiiiii! 4, 16, and 21 for the art ask?

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

ngl, I always have some trouble translating an existing character into "my style," whatever that happens to be at the time; I think my toughest battles were with VLD Lotor (so much random crap on his armor … why …) and Anubis from Niehime to Kemono no Ou (I'm sure I could get good at anthro/furry art if I tried, but animal faces just aren't intuitive to me). I've tried to do "realistic" character portraits a few times as well and they rarely turn out quite right. Re: fav subject, I really love unique and complex buildings and interiors, but perspective also isn't very intuitive to me and I tend to give up on them partway through.

pictured: Pain and Suffering (I couldn't bear to put the chibi Lotor there without cropping his horribly proportioned face with the drifting eyes lmao. We've come a long way, I hope)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

I've made some nice-looking traditional media projects based on photographs, but I don't usually enjoy the process. There's definitely creativity and skill involved in translating a photo into a drawing, but to me it tends to feel like tedious copying, especially if I'm working with a grid or a scale tool. Definitely prefer using photos as loose references or drawing from life.

pictured: Pain and Suffering 2: High School Bites. Left is pen on paper and right is black scratchboard, both made in high school art class and both still taped up in my teenhood bedroom. I love vultures so much

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

This is a tough one, since I don't think of myself as having a signature style! I think I'd normally point to some hyper-realistic or highly rendered/ornate illustration styles, since I've never had the patience to tackle that sort of thing, but the recent glut of AI-generated schlock in that family of styles has greatly reduced my appreciation for them. My eyes can't distinguish the real thing from a machine imitation at a glance, so it's unfortunately all been reduced to cheap kitsch in my eyes. Which leaves … well, a lot of styles that I probably do have the patience to tackle, as well as certain styles that I just don't like much. I think I'll fudge the popular definition of "style" a bit and say that some artists have a sense for design and composition very unlike my own — like, it's one thing to imitate J. C. Leyendecker's slick rendering and shape language, but his signature intuitions re: posing and layouts and symmetry don't align with my own instincts. I also love weird, off-putting compositions, even though I don't have the confidence to make truly radical compositional choices for fear that they'll just look like mistakes.

pictured: socks ad by J. C. Leyendecker and The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent (not cropped, it just looks like that)

#Thanks for the ask ^__^ sorry I put it off so long #I'm sure someone has already put the rest of my faves in the meat grinder and is churning out Leyendecker anime waifus this very second #if you see such abominations in the wild do not inform me. I don't want to know #Kumari answers #Kumari memes #my art #fan art #misc art #inspiration #Lotor #vulture

[cowboyviolence]

right back at you. 2, 4, 8, 22

Thank you for asking! :)

2.whats your favorite thing about your style?:

I think my use of color is the most noticeable thing about my art and the thing people tend to point out, so I am proud of that even though it's just something that kinda comes naturally to me (it would be much harder for me to paint in "normal" colors tbh). I also like my messy/blocky lineart which may not be the prettiest or the most delicate but I think it fits my story and characters.

4. Favorite thing to draw:

People! In general. People are such nice and interesting shapes. I love doing character design and figuring out why a person would look a certain way. I love drawing people who are little fucked up.

8. Most and least favorite parts about your process?:

I'm not sure what my favorite is! I honestly like a lot of parts about the process, from sketching to lineart to painting. I guess my favorite thing overall to do is paint.

Least favorite is that I save the hard parts till the end. So I'll have 90% of a comic page lined and colored except for a characters hands or something which makes me really unmotivated to finish it. This is a bad way to make art and I don't recommend it.

22: what inspires you?

Music! I hear a good lyric sometimes and then an idea for a piece gets slammed into my brain at full force and gets wedged in there until I draw it to get it out.

I'm also really like the artists Rene Magritte and J.C Leyendecker. Also tumblr blogs atomicart and ink-the-artist. And my online and irl friends who make their own awesome art encourages me to make my own :)

#thanks for the ask!

[my-darling-boy]

Do you have any advice for aspiring artists?

My three biggest:

Don’t lose yourself in technicalities. Sure it’s nice to know some basics, but by being too obsessed with perfection and rigorous Art Rules, it comes at the cost of losing a LOT of YOU in your artwork. I can always tell when I’m looking at a Singer Sargent, tell a Leyendecker from a Rockwell, tell my friend’s art from my own, because we all do things differently, we see the artist in their art and their emotion and their style from colours to line hardness, from motion to subject matter. A style is never developed right away, it’s something that develops with you over a long period of time and continues to evolve forever. Art is like poetry. Even a poem that isn’t “”structurally sound””can have more feeling and you in it than one that tediously follows all the rules. Sometimes by following rules too closely, things lose what makes them unique.

Don’t be intimidated by other artists. This is so hard but know that no artist ever starts out “perfect” and no artist ever stops growing. In fact, perfection is purely relative and subjective. By nature, there is no such thing as inherently perfect art, nor is there such a thing as inherently bad art, as those are opinions expressed by viewers, not the art itself. And trust me, every artist you view as perfect views themselves as imperfect; artists are just an endless circle of X saying “I’ll never be as good as Y” when Y is thinking they’ll never be as good as Z and Z is thinking they’ll never be as good as X. The only thing you have to worry about is creating art by how you like, and not what anyone else thinks is “good” or “well executed”. You will always be learning and growing

For the love of all that is good, do not be afraid to use references. In fact, use them. Get physical with them. Trace hands and bodies to know them. Take photos of yourself in the mirror. Set up tiny scenes or shine a flashlight at your face to understand lighting. Run your fingers across fabric to understand its texture, throw the fabric in a heap, let it fall, understand how it moves. Weigh coats in your hands, weigh cups with liquid in your fingers, cups without liquid. Lean into poses, feel where the weight falls. Bend your body, watch how others bend theirs, where fat folds or skin stretches taught over bone. Feel. It doesn’t even have to look “realistic” or “right”. What matters is that you took in every cell and fibre of that object and translated it through your own eyes, through your own fingers, and interpreted it how you think it was meant to be

Extra tip: Doodle from real life objects. Doodling I find is a good idle way to build character to your art. My doodle of a little toy bear can look more cartoonish or realistic, but it’s in this way I learn to take something or someone in front of me and translate it into my own style by my own hand. I have little sketchbooks filled with these random things, like I waited for my mom at the dentist once and drew a bunch of things I saw in the waiting room

Also being “sloppy” or silly in your art is fun. I throw out all these funny little sketchy comics that I spent all but 2 minutes on, exaggerating faces and movement, none of them abiding by any traditional things or really intending them to look good, but they always seem to resonate with people I think cos they tend to be very expressive.

#asks #art

[waspgrave]

Hello! It's okay if you don't answer this, I hope your day goes well either way but, do you happen to have any drawing tips? It's okay if you don't!

Hi! my advice is gonna be pretty generic bc i’m not sure i have the talent/skillset to share much but i hope it helps!!  

references! For some reason, using references was like, uncool for a bit online, but that’s stupid. Use them. And don’t be afraid to use them whether it’s objects, scenery, clothes, and people. I usually go to pinterest and find models or photos to work with.

figure/object/scene studies. They don’t have to be 100% anatomically correct and can genuinely just be stick figures and scribbly shapes. What matters is getting the shaping/movement down 

alongside that, master studies can also help. Find a known commercial artist that inspires you (for example i really like takahiro inoue, sana takeda, matt rhodes, leyendecker, and mike mignola for different reasons) and see if you can mimic a piece of theirs whether it’s composition or color or shading.

this works for movie or game scenes as well! Redraw a scene to suit your own style!

tracing. Almost any art teacher/concept artist/etc will tell you that tracing is a super helpful method of understanding the motions/anatomy of a subject. OBVIOUSLY do not take credit or post it. 

i just rb’d a pretty decent compilation of some nice guides and resources but i’ll offer my own too! I tend to use apps a lot of the time if i get stuck on something i’m doing mostly freehand (not many refs/from the mind) my favorites are:

magicposer

handy 

vizref

pastel

color collect

all in all, practice is what does it. Even if you don’t CONSIDER it practice, it’s going to be practice. Just drawing every day or whenever you have the free time, even if it’s idle doodles in a notebook or sticky notes, can make a world of difference (and yes, even if you don’t immediately notice it! I look at stuff i did a few months ago vs now and can see my improvements)

#art stuff #this reminded me that i need to make a resources page #Anonymous #and ya i don't mind if ppl wanna rb or save this #i hope it helps!!

[transcending-chaos]

hey do you have any advice for someone who mainly draws faces and needs help with drawing bodies? like, i'm developing a style i like and i'm actually improving! but it'd be nice if my faces were attached to bodies and could rotate.

Dude I’d love to see :D

REFERENCE 

Here’s some good resources if you need stock images/models for poses:

 https://daestock.deviantart.com/gallery/

https://epiphany-poses.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/

https://faestock.deviantart.com/gallery/

https://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/ (this one involves nudity, so be warned)

https://senshistock.deviantart.com/gallery/

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=pose%20reference&rs=guide

https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/  (this one also has a lot of nudity in it, but it’s basically an online figure drawing practice tool)

Spend your time either working from real life or from photos. Do some cafe studies trying to capture the gesture (the ‘line of action’) of the figures. Here are the anatomy books I have from school:

Do master studies. Look at Leonardo Da Vinci for how things work and fit together, but look at Michelangelo for how forms move together. Norman Rockwell and JC Leyendecker are great for folds, form, and color. Try to focus in on artists with semi-realistic to realistic styles in this regard as you should be looking for how the figure works together, moves, poses, etc before you stylize it.

Lastly on this note, try not to build a foundation of figure off of cartoons. Figures are fun and can be stylized, but you need to be familiar enough with anatomy before you begin to break its rules. Simple things like if you come across one of those pose memes here on Tumblr, try finding a photograph of the pose you want (or just get a mirror and pose for yourself, I take my own reference all the time :D). 

STYLIZATION

Now that you’ve got your reference and understand how bodies move, let’s do a simple layer building exercise:

The first drawing is the gesture, which I like to draw as a rudimentary skeleton. Think about how your character stands, which leg they put more weight on, which shoulder they raise, do they lock their legs when standing still, etc. You also use this stage to mess with things like the bones and proportions of a character, as well as what their stance can tell you about their personality. For instance, he has three points of contact on the ground, which means stability and can insinuate that the person is grounded or stubborn. There’s also a lean in the hips, which in character design language, typically means they’re personality has some swagger or boldness to it. Lastly, the head is fully facing the audience, and that is usually indicative of the character being unafraid of confrontation. So remember kiddos:

The second drawing is a sketch of the masses of the body, although very simplified. Blayne, the character I’m using, is skinny with a triangular frame. Be aware of your character’s body type, certain traits and masses won’t be emphasized because of their weight and masses. For instance, you don’t really notice that Blayne has broader shoulders because he’s so thin. Instead, features like his legs and neck are more exaggerated because of his lack of mass. 

The third drawing is a basic sketch of how the wardrobe on your character would fit. Understanding how and where things would fold, hang, dip, and lie flat help give the illusion of form and substance to a figure. Basic folding areas are the elbows, knees, ankles, wrists, hips, and collar. There are different types of fabric folds as well, so familiarize yourself with them and understand what types of fabrics fold in that way. 

The fourth is a color test, as well as a test of value (how light and dark colors are). This is a pet peeve of mine that I will explain in a later post but please test the values of your colors against one another. The color scheme above fails in some critical areas that need to be addressed. 

Hopefully this helps! There are also tons of reference and drawing-tip blogs here on tumblr, so know what you’re looking for and you should be able to fid it! Good luck with your art!

#chaos speaks #ask me art stuff #seriously please use references it's not cheating #it's eye training

[sugarmart-blog]

Hi! I just downloaded photoshop recently and I'm tryna get better at drawing digitally but for some reason I'm havin a real tough time with it like it feels as though I can't transfer my skills from paper to the screen so basically my question is how did you get so good at it? And do you have any advice? Thanks :)

well first off thank u for the compliments haha!!!!

the only way to get used to transferring ur skills to the screen from paper is by practice!!! so be sure to do plenty of that!

and the brushes!! brushes r a key element for me because different textured brushes really make a difference on how ur art will turn out! some nice brushes i use are:- http://digitalbrushes.tumblr.com/post/102929354775/helen-chen-brush-set-my-brush-set-tho-most-are- http://jigokuen.tumblr.com/post/78660442498/some-dc-girls-redesigns-an-extension-to-the

find references!! ik some people r like “ur not a real artist if u ur references” but tbh that’s bs ??? find refs and use them, that’s how u improve as an artist

practice figure drawing, whether digitally or not!! a nice website for free fig drawing is the site https://line-of-action.com/

and find an inspiration! what’s an artist that u really admire? what artists art style do u really like? find one and just copy — if they’re okay with it. copy at first (and if u post it online be sure to credit their art style!!) and then develop it into ur own art style. at least, that’s how I go about it – taking elements from different people’s art styles and making my own version of it.

do studies!! find some great artists/painters or whatever (like j c leyendecker, Frida Kahlo, etc.) and do studies off of their artwork ! portraits studies, clothing studies, etc.

search tutorials online! you’re bound to find something on YouTube or elsewhere! there are also a lot of tumblr accounts that reblog/make art references!

that’s all I could think of for now? anyway thank you for asking me and I hope this is of use !!! and good luck on your art!!!!!!!

#ahhh idk if this is helpful or not #long post / #text heavy / #art reference #art ref #ask #answered

[carot-dj]

Love! I really enjoyed this book about Carl and Karin Larsson. I find their artistic partnership very Go to Amazon

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Five Stars I love this book and I adore these artists! Go to Amazon

I love this book! Aside from the fact a reader will gain new appreciation for the Larssons and their art, a reason to purchase this book is that it is gorgeous. Good paper, excellent color reproductions, a nice heft. If you admire Larsson and Scandinavian culture, this book is a "must have." Go to Amazon

Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style I Love this book! Carl and Karin Larsson were such a wonderful creative couple. Their use of bold fresh colors takes your breath away, and makes you want to follow their example. I highly recommend this book, it is definately a keeper! Go to Amazon

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