Monday, September 21, 2026

Picasso, Gestalt, Dazzle Camouflage / Missing Links

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Above World War I photograph of German dazzle-painted railway car. Unidentified. Restored, color may not be historically accurate. ••• Pablo...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Stevens and Merilaita book about Animal Camouflage

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Publisher's synopsis (cover animation above) for Martin Stevens and Sami Merilaita , eds., Animal Camouflage: Mechanisms and Function ....
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

WWI mishap / making a cast of the carcass of a horse

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WWI magazine illustration The American artist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) served briefly as a US Army camoufleur near the end of World W...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

camouflaged American soldier emerges from stump

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World War I American soldier (digital animation) Henry Berry (American artist / camoufleur), in Make the Kaiser Dance . New York: Doubleday,...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

aimed to distort the lines and to warp the perspective

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Above WWII American ship camouflage (unidentified), 1944 ••• Matthew Luckiesh , Visual illusions, their causes, characteristics and applica...
Monday, August 24, 2026

ship camouflage / as dazzling as Frisco pousse-café

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Herman Whitaker , SIMS'S CIRCUS, A Cruise with Our Destroyers Over There in The Independent Vol 94— Barred, striped, blotched, smudged,...

Germans more adept at using WWI camouflage tricks

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TRICKS IN ALL TRADES: The War Game Has Its Share of Them, as the Pictures on This Page Bear Witness—The Germans Have Been the More Adept at ...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

WWI oil camouflage with views of ship in harbor

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USS Lake Pleasant (1918) Above Two views of the starboard side of the same ship, the USS Lake Pleasant (1918), showing its dazzle camouflag...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

British Army Tank Camouflage / WWI Strategic Testing

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Above I recently ran across this book by Roger Pugh, titled THE MOST SECRET PLACE ON EARTH: The Story of the East Anglian Village of Elvede...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

that artists should be placed in charge of camouflage

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False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage Captain Aymar Embury II , US Reserve, "Nature's Camouflage and Man's" in T...
Monday, August 3, 2026

the unknown role of Iowa artists in modern camouflage

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Coming soon: At 2:00 pm on Sunday, August 9 , I will be giving a one-hour illustrated talk on camouflage in connection with art, nature, and...
Saturday, August 1, 2026

ship camoufleurs George Musaphia / B.R. Campbell

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George Musaphia illustrations I know almost nothing about an American illustrator named George Musaphia . The little that I do know I found ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Seymour Reit / cartoonist, animator, writer, camoufleur

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Since early childhood, I have known about Casper the Friendly Ghost , a cartoon character who first appeared in comic books in the late 1940...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

was utter nonsense / camouflage as painting things up

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Bus for wounded soldiers at WWI fundraising rally [colorized] Peter Rodyenko , “Camouflage: Modern aerial photography outmodes paint, result...