Pin- Up Girls: Erotic Art in Pinup Paintings & Pictures featuring a wide variety of media... The Pin Up Girl Art  of Howard David Johnson;  featuring Oil paintings, Prismacolor Paintings and Mixed Media including Photography, Painting, Drawing & Digital Artistry.

Presents: Classic Pin-up Girl Art and Fantasy Art Pinups

A Gallery of New illustrations ~ Celebrating the dream of the ideal female in paintings, drawings and pictures in traditional oils, contemporary acrylics, prismacolor pencils  and cutting edge 2D and 3D digital mixed media following the spirit and style of the classic illustrators. 

     With a background in traditional media including oils, pastels and colored pencils, Howard David Johnson embraces leading edge digital media in the creation of his depictions of fairy tales, folklore, mythology, legend, religion, and heroic history. He works in and mixes a wide variety of media * Oil paintings * Acrylic Paintings * Prismacolor Paintings * Drawings * Chalk & Oil Pastel Paintings * Photography * and last but not least: Digital Artistry & Mixed Media * 
For Oil paintings and other traditional art media, scroll down...

Vintage style Pin up girls~

Contemporary Pin Up Girl Art 

Women and Nature ~ "The Pounding Surf" "Thoughtful Beauty". and "Second Thoughts"  2019-20 ~ mixed media including oil on canvas

"Pretty in Pink" 2019 ~ mixed media	"Fixing her Top" 2019	"Golden Dreams" 2019 ~ mixed media including oil on canvas

Fantasy &  Science-Fiction Pin Up Girl Art 

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" Her little chow hounds" ,"Mushroom Hunters" and "The Man Eater " all MMXIX

"The Security Bot" MMXIX left and center ~ "Raven of Atlantis" MMXVI and "Sallie Forth Space Cadet"  MMXIX

"Her Hunting Deinotheriums",  "Tigris the Amur Tiger Girl" and "Sheena the Jungle Girl"

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"The Golden Girl of the Congo"  ,"Duel of the Amazons"and "Blonde Savage"

Archival grade prints are available on canvas or photo paper.

Original oil paintings and art on paper of select pieces are available, e-mail for info...

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Can Pin Up Girl Art be Fine Art?

  I say ~ Yes- and no, depending on the piece or your personal tastes. As delightful as they are ~ most can never be considered as such. Considering Many great artists like Ingres and most of the Pre-Raphaelites were ridiculed as Kitsch in their time, so such attacks put Pin up artists in distinguished company! Nothing is more subjective than tastes in art. There are no absolutes so some would HAVE to be. "Blodeuwedd and Gwydion": oil on canvas.  Blodeuwedd means "born of the flowers" and is Welsh Celtic Mythology in English from "The stories of the Mabinogion" translated by the Lady Charlotte Guest AKA The White book of Rhydderch (Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch) finally written in Welsh ca. 1350 & the Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest) ca. 1382-1410. is a desperate attempt at good taste while "Mermaid Meena's Menace" is just plain silly...

"Circe the Enchantress" from Greek Mythology, is rendered in Colored Pencil on Windsor-Newton Cotman watercolor paper and is based on photographs taken by the artist. Bathsheeba and The Mushroom Fairy are also colored pencils on watercolor paper. Below are "The Flower Fairy" (left) and "Pixie Dust" (right) rendered in digital media. I the early days of David's career his preliminary collages were not very presentable but now they are a viable alternative to expensive traditional media for publishing ventures. 

Archival grade prints are available on canvas or photo paper.

Original oil paintings and art on paper of select pieces are available, e-mail for info...

       More importantly, publishing customers can't afford to pay me for old-fashioned traditional methods like oil on canvas. I can do them, and do them well, but no one but millionaire art collectors can afford to pay even poverty level hourly rates for all that time. The masters often took a year for a single painting. With digital media I can create pieces that look very nice for very nice prices and with blazing speed. 

      The publishing industry is not noted for its patience. In the early days of my art career, mailing traditional media originals was scary at best, but now they can be scanned and shipped without risk. Also in my early days adding canvas space to a work in progress was as impossible as growing a second head... but now it is so easy I usually don't even charge extra to adapt them if its just skies or landscapes! Re-dos and revisions were financially catastrophic! No wonder the starving artist became a stereotype!

     Before the internet, I struggled to find customers in Austin Texas, now nearly every nation on Earth has visited my website! This was beyond my wildest imaginings as a boy. What an amazing era we live in! I love it!!!

      Howard David Johnson is a contemporary realistic artist and photographer with a background in the natural sciences and history.  David works in a wide variety of mixed media ranging from oil on canvas to digital media. David's realistic illustrations have made appearances in every major bookstore and game shop chain in America as well as magazines and educational texts around the world. 

   Some of David's more prestigious clients have included the University of Texas, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England, The Australian Mint, The National Geographic Society, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, MGM Studios, Warner Brothers Home Video, ABC/Disney, CBS TV, PBS TV, The History Channel, Enslow Educational Publishers, Adobe Photoshop, Auto FX, Tree-Free Greeting, Verizon wireless, Apple IPOD, Penguin, Doubleday (Now Random House), Harlequin Top Historical Romances, and the History Book of the Month Club, as well as appearing in periodical publications like Popular Photography and the Wall Street Journal.   

A Traditional style portrait of the artist. [Photo by his son Erich.]

   After a lifetime of drawing and painting, David's Traditional Art was exhibited in the British Museum in London in 1996, ( 3 years before he got his first computer ) as well as numerous American ones since, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

    Working in a variety of media David offers his customers a variety of options and more than three decades of experience. As an illustrator he has not only used the computer but has been involved in the development and marketing of software for Adobe Photoshop. Digital art, Colored pencils, Pastels, Mixed media, & also Oil Paintings can also be commissioned for select projects.Digital illustration projects start at $500.U.S. and group rates are available. David delivers custom made copyright free illustrations & old fashioned customer service when he does work-for-hire. To publish existing pieces of his realistic art, David sells licenses starting at only $99.USD.

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