Genre Assignment

I am looking for reference for my genre assignment for Vin DeFate’s class. I want to do a slick, which is a 2-page spread for a magazine story. You know, the romance short stories in the 7 sisters magazines of the 60’s: Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, McCall’s, Redbook and Women’s Day. I remember as a teenager gazing at these images in my mothers mags. Certainly had something to do with my unrealistic impression of romance. Then the feminist messages appeared and boy was I confused. I probably still am!

Anyway, much research to be done and many, many sketches. Hmmmmmm, maybe 50?

See some samples below. Could I ever be that good?

First two images by Lorriane Fox who was a close friend of Murray’s. In fact, I believe it’s the back of Murray’s head in the second image (See the back of Murray’s head in class photos earlier in blog!). Carol and Murray own that original.
Next two images by Don DeMauro and Frederick Varady.

Re-entry after 2 weeks of art boot-camp heaven

It was an amazing 2 weeks of new people, new class rooms (they've added on since my BFA) and tons of new ideas. My head is spinning with visions of illustration history and all the genres that accompanied those years when illustrators were the go-to folks for advertising, book covers, magazine stories and anything that needed visual communication. Murray Tinkleman has gathered an amazing collection of seasoned professionals from his years of working in the industry. This is clearly going to be a lot of work and a life changing experience.