Just in time for Halloween and Dias de Los Muertos, consider illustrator Bill Russell’s Gold Skull and Skeleton merchandise now available at Society6.
October 28, 2020
Bill Russell painted a utility box recently in the city of Dublin, California. This creative use of public art called Flora and Fauna is one example of how art can enhance and beautify street life.
Selections of scratchboard portraits from Bill Russell’s 2019 Inktober series
Bill Russell always carries a small postcard-sized watercolour pad on his vacations. Bill Grigsby suggested putting a postage stamp on each and mail them to himself. So far none have gone missing. Here are a few from Bill’s recent trip to Vancouver Island.
Bill Russell’s portrait of poet and social activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
For a number of years in the 1980’s Reactor was the agency of record for Bata Canada. On a regular basis we created in-store point of sale materials for the 500 or so Bata Shoe stores across Canada. These are two Thanksgiving posters art directed by Louis Fishauf and illustrated by Bill Russell and Paula Munck.
Cornucopia, ink and watercolours on paper by Bill Russell
Turkey, gouache on board, by Paula Munck.
This Jazz Portraits Folio of six jazz musician portraits by illustrator Bill Russell were created digitally on an Apple iPad Pro using the Procreate drawing app. Depicted in these prints are Brazilian instrumentalist Hermento Pascoal, cellist Zoe Keating, jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, eclectic bandleader Sun Ra, jazz vocalist Gregory Porter and upright and electric bass player Esperanza Spalding. They were printed with archival pigment-based inks on Epson Velvet Fine Art acid-free paper and packaged in a limited edition of 12 at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California. Learn more here. Bill also created animations found here.
Here are five new Jazz Portraits done by Bill Russell. Look for limited edition 12″x12″ giclee prints on Billustration.com.
May 3, 2017
