Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2009

  • 99 Paintings of Beer on the Wall (Cat Scott)

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    In a painting blog variation that combines her interest in both beer and painting, Cat Scott has chosen as her subject a variety of beer bottles. Their different shapes, colors and label designs give a seemingly limited subject more diversity than one might think. She also employs a variety of media in the works she…

  • World Builder (Bruce Branit)

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    I will sometimes gripe about manufactured culture to the point where it may seem I don’t like certain genres at all, when in fact I do (e.g. CGI animated movies and superhero comic books). After griping about Hollywood CGI animated features in the course of raving about Sita Sings the Blues recently, I’ll point out…

  • Margaret Morrison

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    Margaret Morrison’s recent works are yummy, both in terms of their frequent subject matter of sweets and candies, and the sumptuous color with which she portrays those treats. Morrison’s canvases are relatively large, often 4’x4′ (122x122cm) or larger, and put their small scale subjects into large scale relief, sometimes at eye level or above, giving…

  • Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)

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    Sita Sings the Blues is an award winning independent feature length animation by Nina Paley. The film combines an adaptation of the epic Indian story of Ramayana with a personal story from Paley herself. The film won the Best Feature award at the 32nd Annecy Animated Film Festival (see my post on student films at…

  • Watchmen as a Saturday Morning Cartoon

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    Anyone who is familiar with Watchmen, the darkly dystopian and very adult graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, or the much anticipated feature film adaptation that is being released today; and/or those familiar with 1980’s style Saturday morning superhero cartoons; will get a kick out of this perfect and spot on send-up by…

  • Jean-Baptiste Monge

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    Jean-Baptiste Monge is a French fantasy illustrator with a specialty in portraying the world of faeries, elves, goblins and related faerie folk. Monge’s detailed, beautifully rendered paintings have a textural quality and subdued color palette ideally suited to his portrayal of the denizens of the unseen world at our feet and the edges of our…