2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 05

This week we've got a few names that'll be very familiar to some and rather obscure to others.

To start off, Edward Runci supplies the artwork for our Pin-Up Calendar -

  
And we've got Earle Bergey for our Covers Calendar -

For a nice bonus, here's the uncluttered original art for that cover -

For this week's Blue Monday Calendar, we've got plural. Al Buell leads off with a classic beauty...

...but, i just couldn't let the first month pass without at least one from our favorite calendar artist, Gil Elvgren. (Don't fret - i made sure it wasn't a repeat from our 2018 calendar) 

Things are warming up here, snow is melting and it's feeling kind of warm out there. I'm going to lean into that feeling...

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labeled artists, of course (20thC)

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 04

In our fine modern entertainment tradition, we're going back to Week 01 of this year's calendars to reboot/recycle/rerun our artists for Week 04. Not the artwork, of course, just the artists.

First up, Henry Clive returns with a bit more classically themed piece in this week's Pin-up Calendar - 

And for our Covers Calendar, Enoch Bolles returns, this time with the January 1942 cover of Film Fun -

And Archie Dickens gives us another winter themed pin-up for out Blue Monday Calendar -

We're keeping it very simple this week - just the three basic calendars. Now i'm off to figure out where i parked my brain.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.


art by labeled artists, of course (20thC)

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 03

This week we lead off with Mike Ludlow and a comic-appropriate painting for our Pin-up Calendar page -

Enoch Bolles returns for our Classic Covers Calendar with a Paris Nights cover from January 1937 -

For our Blue Calendar entry, we've got the first appearance of she who is arguably our oddest artist appearing on this year's calendars, Zoë Mozert -

As you might have guessed from the name, one of the things that makes Zoë so different from the other featured artists is that she is a she. Another is that she was also, at times, her own model -

Here's a photo of her in later years, standing in front of one of her most famous works, the Red Dog Rosie mural -

Yes, you can has a better view of the mural, too -

Of course, we'll be seeing more from her this year.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labelled artists, of course (20th C) 

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 02

We'll keep it simple this week - only one of each calendar style - just so we don't start patterns of overkill.

For our Pin-Up Calendar, we've got an Al Moore girl staying warm in winter wear, sort of...

...and our Old Magazine Covers calendar features Rolf Armstrong from January 1919...

 

Let me pause to remark on how much i enjoy the ... quality of light on the faces of Rolf's portraits. That's the best way i can think to phrase it, so let's take a quick look at a few to see what i mean -

It's not surprising his work was so popular and featured on many magazine covers.
 
For our Blue Calendar this week, we've got Earl Moran and one of his paintings of Marilyn Monroe...

As you may know, Earl had rather unique relations with Marilyn...

...and turned out quite a few paintings of her, of which these are just a sampling...

Oddly, one of my favorites seems to be rarely seen on the web -

We'll be seeing a fair bit of Moore, Armstrong, and Moran on this year's calendars. Perhaps not a big surprise.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by Al Moore and Rolf Armstrong (20th C)