TODAY'S FEATURED POST
a Thanksgiving story
Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Sandy Kossin, American Illustrator
October 2, 2024 - Sanford “Sandy” Kossin is one of the best. You may not remember him as he stopped working professionally some years back, preferring instead to draw from the live model to keep his formidable drawing skills sharp. Selfishly, I never agreed with that. I wanted more and more from him. I wanted to keep running into his work on paperback covers or Boy’s Life, like I had as a kid. Sandy hit his stride through the 60's and 70's, working for major corporations, major magazines, major movies, and about every major project that appeared over those years. He was hot and in high demand. Many paperback publishers then enjoyed using covers of a white background with a splash of colorful illustration enticing the potential reader to pick it up. Sandy’s work was especially suited for this…
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