Earlier this year, I was asked to draw another cover for an imaginary New Yorker-ish magazine, this time about Rome. Naturally, I took the opportunity to focus on an entirely superfluous wallpaper...

#illustration #art #rome #magazinecover

My entries for the Edward Gorey House Envelope Art Contest for this year (theme was "Evil Garden"), 2020 (theme was "A is for") and 2019.

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Here's the cover I drew for a New-Yorker-ish mock
magazine about my city. The story behind it is that, before the discovery in 1823 of a Roman temple buried underneath the city, the only emerging capital was used as a coffee table in the garden of a private villa.
#illustration #art #regency #1820s

“On Friday, the Author finally visited the Exhibition he had come to Paris to see.”

A little something for the one hundred years of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, the exhibiition that gave Art Déco its name.

#illustration #art #artdeco #1920s

"Mrs Cardoon chose Kew Gardens to debut her new anteater, Topsy II, after last season's tragic incident involving Topsy I and Lady Backpayne's prize-winning leviathan."

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Campari poster from a couple of years ago.

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"Mrs Cardoon chose Kew Gardens to debut her new anteater, Topsy II, after last season's tragic incident involving Topsy I and Lady Backpayne's prize-winning leviathan."

#art #illustration #victorian

"Lady Backpayne strolling her domestic leviathan. Her exotic pet ate Mrs Cardoon's anteater, causing much sensation."

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"Famed actress Isadora Frumply, here depicted with her boa constrictor Gigi, was found this morning strangled in her conservatory.

The Yard thinks it might be the doing of foreign hoodlums."

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"Sometime in the late afternoon, the Author was offered a well-needed Manhattan, just as its namesake's celebrated skyline started to appear from the airship windows."

#illustration #art #1930s

"During his stay in the Riviera, the Author discovered that the Contessa was working for the OVRA secret police, and almost got poisoned in the process."

#illustration #art #noir