Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2006

  • Stuart Immonen

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    Stuart Immonen is a Canadian comics artist and cover illustrator with a crisp, confident style. His drawings can have a loose, stylized and modern feel, but are always based on an underpinning of solid draftsmanship. Immonen has done work for mainstream comics companies like Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image Comics and the French publisher Les…

  • Joan C. Gratz

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    With the Mona Lisa as a starting point, Joan C. Gratz took paintings by 35 artists, rendered her versions of them in colored clay, animated parts of them and morphed them into one another in a fun, short (7 minute) animation set to music and sound effects called Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase. Aside from…

  • Yves Tanguy

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    Imaginary landscape has long had a place in art, from the idealized classical landscapes of the Renaissance and Baroque eras to the imaginary worlds and alternate histories of modern fantasy and science fiction art. Yves Tanguy painted landscapes from the world of impossible dreams. Tanguy had no format artistic training. After leaving military service in…

  • Richard M. Powers

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    I became a fan of of science fiction artist Richard Powers without knowing it. As a teenager I read a lot of science fiction and much of it was in the form of inexpensive paperbacks from the 60’s that I would come across in used book stores. While there were a number of cover artists…

  • Kevin Dart

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    When I profiled Chris Turnham and his fresh, lively illustrations and concept art back in January, he immediately wrote me and suggested I check out his friend and fellow illustrator Kevin Dart. I immediately checked out Dart’s snappy, wonderfully styled and colored illustrations, was immediately impressed and just as immediately got distracted and neglected to…

  • Seung Ho Henrik Holmberg

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    Seung Ho Henrik Holmberg is a concept artist who has worked for gaming and entertainment companies like The moving Picture Company, PDI/DreamWorks, Industrial Light and Magic, Chimney Pot and Streamline Studios. Many concept artists will put a bio on their site the makes it sound like they simply fell out of bed and into a…