Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2005

  • Practical Painting

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    This is an unpretentious little how-to artists magazine created by an individual artist (identified only as “Denise”). The site features compact, informative articles on art technique and tool basics such as choosing canvas, colors and brushes. Her “What Paint Colors do I Need” article, for example, is a quick introduction to choosing a split-primary color…

  • Chet Phillips

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    Chet Phillips is an illustrator who does what he terms “Digital Scratchboard” in Corel Painter. His colorful images of animals (mostly domestic) and other subjects have an eye-pleasing freshness and energy.

  • Artistic Interpretation of Literary Figures

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    This is an individual’s collection of art, mostly by comics artists, on the theme of lilterary figures. It includes drawings and paintings that offer the artist’s interpretation of literary characters, as well as portraits of writers (and occasionally artists). (The image shown is a portrait of Dante Gabriel Rosetti by Barry Windsor Smith.) The site…