At The WSJ, making Classic Art, part 27

( To view the initial Post in this series, please click on https://www.sprouls.com/ink-rhythm-blog/classic-wall-street-journal-art )

Beginning with a couple of WSJ hedcut portraits…

WSJ hedcut

Pictured above, Astronaut and US Senator, John Glenn. Below, another famous American statesman, James Madison:

WSJ hedcut

Staying with portraiture, and US politicians, here is a grouping of five - always a bit of a challenge to compose, working with separate, individual photos:

I recall Wright , O’Neill, Rostenkowski, not sure of the other two… Perhaps these gents are loosely related to this citizen of the deep:

The shark, above, printed at one-column wide in The Wall Street Journal. I packed a lot of detail into my drawings, then as now!

I’ll close with this illustration of a Naturalist admiring his reptilian friend. Note the groovy background textures, inspired by Elliot Banfield, who regularly illustrated for the. NY Times. I am a big fan of his Penmanship.

More next time…

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