Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2005

  • James Gurney

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    I don’t usually post two full images by the same artist, but in this case I was fascinated to find out that an artist I thought I was familiar with is, in effect, two artists. Many people are familiar with James Gurney as the artist/creator of Dinotopia, a series of lavishly illustrated fantasy books about…

  • Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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    Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a 19th century painter in the Academic style. He was born in the Netherlands and moved to England, where he was eventually knighted. He painted luxuriously beautiful scenes of romanticized classical civilizations and medieval France. Often disparaged as a painter of “mere eye-candy”, and completely disrespected by the modern art establishment,…

  • Mark Fiore

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    Mark Fiore certainly wasn’t the first to post animated political cartoons to the web, but he is probably the best known of the cartoonists who specialize in animated political commentary. While many animated editorial cartoons are a single panel with animated bits, Fiore actually does 30-45 second animations. He works in Flash and uses sound…

  • Todd Lockwood

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    The pencil drawing shown here, depicting Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gate to Hades in Greek Myth, is one of the most striking images I’ve seen in the whole of science fiction and fantasy art. Take a look at the detail images. Science fiction and fantasy artist Todd Lockwood works both traditionally in…

  • Jake Parker

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    Jake Parker (no relation to yours truly) is an illustrator and comic book artist living in New York. He as done conceptual art and illustrations for companies like Disney, Warner Brothers and Wizards of the Coast. He has also done a number of comic stories, including contributions to Flight VOL1 and VOL 2. The “Comics”…

  • Puppetfilm (Darkstrider.net)

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    In spite of all of the recent interest in stop-motion animation, notably Wallace & Grommit, Tim Butron’s animations, the original King Kong and, of course, the grand-master Ray Harryhausen, most people, myself included, have been unaware of an entire genre of stop-motion from Eastern Europe called Puppetfilm. Puppetfilm doesn’t refer to puppets in the Jim…