Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2011

  • Wacom Inkling

    Wacom is the venerable maker of pressure sensitive tablets and styli that have been the standard for digital artists for many years. My understanding is that the name is a combination of “wa”, from a Japanese word meaning harmony, and “com” from computer, meaning a device that puts one in harmony with a computer. They…

  • Jason Scheier

    Jason Scheier is a visual development artist and concept designer based in Pasadena, California. His clients include DreamWorks Animation SKG, NBC Universal, Anonymous Content, Honda Automotive, General Electric and DreamWorks Feature Films. The images on his website gallery have names, though they don’t include references to the projects for which they were designed. Scheier’s focus…

  • The Floods at Port Marly – Alfred Sisley

    Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (one of my favorites and in my opinion underrated) was more than any of the other French Impressionists devoted to the depiction of water, streams and in particular, the Seine River. Sisley painted several canvasses of the flooding of the Seine at Port Marly in 1872 and 1876. The three paintings…

  • JVJ Publishing

    Classic illustration enthusiasts were dismayed a while back to learn of the apparent demise of Bud Plant Illustrated books, a long-time collaboration between Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. and Bud Plant that was a key source of out of print books about great classic illustrators and comics artists. The good news turned out to be that Vadeboncoeur…

  • The tempests of Ivan Aivazovsky

    Those of us on the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. are either experiencing or bracing for the impact of Hurricane Irene, the outer bands of which are starting to drop heavy rain and whip up heavier winds here in Philadelphia as I write. It put me in mind of the storm paintings of Russian (Crimean)…

  • Dan Hipp

    Illustrator and comics artist Dan Hipp has clients that include Real Simple, Wired, DC Comics, Image Comics and Random House. When not working on professional assignments, and/or training to survive the zombie apocalypse, Hipp fills his blog with his wonderfully colorful, energetic and in-your-face drawings of characters from comics, movies, games and other aspects of…