Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2007

  • Tom Hale

    I’ve written before about concept artists and designers who create drawings and paintings of vehicles, and touched on the idea of customized car bodies as modern sculpture (in my post on “Big Daddy” Roth), but Tom Hale, who started his career as an automotive designer, has chosen cars, or more accurately, car forms, as the…

  • Rogier van der Weyden

    Just as an individual artist struggles to learn the basics of drawing and painting, and works to progress into more sophisticated mastery of perspective, proportion, composition, and the ability to convincingly portray any desired subject, so too has Western art in general struggled to pass through those same stages. Representational art started out as decoration…

  • Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

    It’s often mentioned that comics, or “graphic storytelling” is the only art form in which words and pictures are blended together in an integral way to tell a story. I also like to point out that comics is the only visual medium (compared, for example, to film or video) in which the reader/viewer can choose…

  • Irving Norman

    Irving Norman may be the most important “ignored” artist of the 20th Century. His work is striking, powerful, visually and intellectually rich and complex, masterfully painted and emotionally haunting. He painted dramatic, large scale canvasses exploding with color and detail, in which dozens, even hundreds of figures dance the dances of humanity in the throes…

  • Louis Comfort Tiffany

    Most people who are aware of Louis Comfort Tiffany as a designer and creator of elegant Art Nouveau artifacts and, in particular, stained glass, are unaware that he started as a painter, training under George Inness and Samuel Coleman. The metropolitan Museum of Art in NY expanded the galleries in its American Wing to allow…

  • Craig Phillips

    So I was on Netdiver (see yesterday’s post) and who comes up as the first illustrator on the first page in the Illustration category but Craig Phillips, a terrific illustrator from New South Wales in Australia. Phillips works in a pleasing line and color style that carries some of the fresh, open feeling of European…