Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Nicholas Huntsman is the creator for a couple of stores, Lux Aeterna that is a home and garden and L & Co. Clothiers that feature vintage clothing from the 1920s and 30s. He has pretty standard vendor pictures, but he also has a series of delightful sendups of The Saturday Evening Post in the style of J. C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell;s mentor. Of course, Leyendecker and Rockwell never had such a model as Nicholas. He included a short story, a small excerpt will explain the picture.
...Five times a year Jo and I make the pilgrimage to a sequestered cemetery by a lonely creek; his birthday, Father's day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the day it happened. We leave the city behind, the shop, our friends, our adulthood, forget our lives ever existed there, and head back to our childhood, when it was just us and the Manor. The only five days of the year when the mask isn't put on, because she needs to know I'm there...
For more delightful covers, click here:
“April 14, 1928” challenges us to try dancing with a dead leg. He provides a link to some musical accompaniment as well, the very familiar “Little Brown Jug.” Well, familiar to me. My dad played banjo and sang in a band that played in all the best barns in Minnesota.
“May 21, 1928” made me smile. He calls it Two Aristocrats Reading A Working Party Paper." Sure enough they are reading “The Daily Worker” while lounging in their finery. Somehow it made me think of Alexandra Ocasio Cortez’ “Tax the Rich” gown for The Met Gala on Monday night.
For more of Nicholas Huntsman's delightful Post covers, check out his album here. Each picture is a great example of using the iconic circle and frame in imaginative ways to complete the details and fashion essentials for excellent historical roleplay without anything more anachronistic than the computer you are using. That “Daily Worker” front page is amazing!
See all of Cajsa's Choices here. Follow Cajsa on Flickr, on Twitter or on her blog.
Comments