#vintage art

[caelestishound]

[possessedpasm]

Rejected Hallmark greeting card :(

[thefugitivesaint]

Vera Bock (1905-1973), ''Oscar Wilde Fairy Tales'' , 1935 Source

[leatherandmossprints]

‘A Young Daughter of the Picts’ by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, c. 1585.

[1five1two]

'The Fountain and the Ruin, Alpedrinha'. Tristram Paul Hillier. 1905–1983.

[spookysalem13]

Source

I'm saving up to move out right now. I've always wanted a maximalist eclectic art wall.

This, however, is my favorite word 😁, new inspiration has been found ✨️.

[jeniferprince]

this barbie likes other barbies

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[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustration from The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)

[kelskart]

the midwest princess ♥️ love her

prints available here!

[laurenillustrated]

pov: you fell down the vintage strawberry shortcake rabbit hole and now can’t get out

I just love the 80s designs

[caelestishound]

[possessedpasm]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[thefugitivesaint]

Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875-1935), 'Lamia & Hermes', ''The International Studio'', #266, March 1919 Source "Lamia" is a narrative poem written by the English poet John Keats…The poem tells how the god Hermes hears of a nymph who is more beautiful than all. Hermes, searching for the nymph, instead comes across Lamia, trapped in the form of a serpent. She reveals the previously invisible nymph to him and in return he restores her human form. She goes to seek a youth of Corinth, Lycius, while Hermes and his nymph depart together into the woods. The relationship between Lycius and Lamia, however, is destroyed when the sage Apollonius reveals Lamia's true identity at their wedding feast, whereupon she seemingly disappears and Lycius dies of grief."

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting’ by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, c. 1855.

[1five1two]

'L’Idéal'. Carlos Schwabe. c. 1912.

[celesse]

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