Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2011

  • Retro Future Space Art on Dark Roasted Blend

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    I just love these. Not only do I take great delight in past visions of the future, I’m particularly fond of retro space art. The blog Dark Roasted Blend, which posts items that are odd, amusing, visually interesting — or all three, has posted a fine addition to their wonderful series of posts collecting visions…

  • LeConte Stewart

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    LeConte Stewart was an American painter active in the 20th Century who spent most of his life portraying the landscape of his native state of Utah. Stewart studied art at the University of Utah, but also traveled to the East Coast to study with established artists there, notably John Fabian Carlson. I also see other…

  • Art-o-Mat (update)

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    So you’re standing in front of a beautifully refurbished vending machine; you put in your golden token, make your selection, pull the selection knob, listen to the delightful “clunkity-clunk” that means your selection has arrived in the vending tray; you reach down and pick up your… art? Yes, if the vending machine is one of…

  • Owen Freeman

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    Illustrator and designer Owen Freeman’s work blends a graphic sensibility and strongly geometric compositions with touches of texture and linear variety that gives his images a lively sense of energy. He uses contrasting organic and architectural shapes, areas of color within almost monochromatic compositions and angular divisions of the image area to lead the eye…

  • Lucian Freud

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    Painter Lucien Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, was born in Berlin, moved to England with his parents when he was 10, and later became a British citizen. Freud became known for his intense portraits and figures, painted in brusque strokes of thick impasto and in a manner some call uncompromising, but I think of…

  • The Making of Gobelins Shorts

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    I’ve written several times in the past about the wonderful student animation coming out of Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris. It seems that each example I see is another small triumph for hand drawn animation in a world dominated by increasingly formulaic computer CGI. Writing for On Animation, Daniel Caylor…