Illustration: Joe Cruz updates with some vibrantly reworked found photos

Date
19 July 2013

In the year that’s passed since we last featured Joe Cruz he’s been flat out producing a veritable shed load of sweet illustration (that’s slang sweet not cute sweet). Armed only with found photos, photocopies and a fistful of chalk and oil pastels Joe’s been scribbling his way through a massive number of subjects, from vintage Vogue covers to simple still-life vases and a stunning selection of frantic jazz musicians amplified in their movements by his swift, scratchy lines. There’s not a picture around that couldn’t be improved by a wave of Mr Cruz’s brightly coloured hands. Lovely stuff.

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Joe Cruz: All That Jazz

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Joe Cruz: All That Jazz

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Joe Cruz: All That Jazz

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Joe Cruz: Arabi Vase

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Joe Cruz: Still Life Flowers

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Joe Cruz: Still Life Flowers

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Joe Cruz: Still Life Flowers

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Joe Cruz: Tension

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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