Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2006

  • Marcos Mateu-Mestre

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    There are some people who draw in a way that looks like they load their pens with pure liquified fun. Concept artist Marcos Mateu-Mestre has a wonderful character of line and a jaunty, casual style that makes it look like the lines danced out and created the image of their own accord. His loose, relaxed…

  • Regino Gonzales

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    I’ve talked before about some art forms that are disrespected by the art establishment and artistic community, like comics, architectural rendering, medical illustration, botanical illustration and paleontological reconstruction art. None of them, however, collect the artistic disdain reserved for that intentionally lowest of lowbrow art forms, tattoo art. Yowsa! Regino Gonzales appears to be a…

  • Hergé (Georges Remi)

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    You will occasionally hear me rant about the misuse of the term “graphic novel” in reference to trade paperback collections of comic books in America. (Watchmen is a graphic novel, Akira is a graphic novel. The last six issues of The Uncanny X-Men collected into a squarebound paperback isn’t any kind of a novel. It…

  • Armand Serrano

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    Armand Serrano is a visual development artist for Sony Pictures Animation. He started out with FilCartoons, a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera, on projects like The New Adventures of Johnny Quest, Young Robin Hood and Pirates of Dark Water. He then moved to with Philippine Animation Studio (PASI), supervising layout for Marvel TV animation like X-Men and…

  • Draw the Pirate

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    Avast, ye swabs! If ye’ve ever bin a’wonderin ’bout them “Draw the Pirate” ads fer them mail-orderin’ art schools that be testin’ yer art talent afore they’ll train yer carcass ter be an artist, here be an amusin’ little film fer yer by Jeff Hopkins. Yer never know, matey, yer might have talents! Then agin,…

  • Frits Thaulow

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    One of my favorite painters is a relatively unknown Norwegian painter and engraver named Frits Thaulow. I only discovered Thaulow because the Philadelphia Museum of Art happens to have a stunning painting of his in their permanent collection called Water Mill. It is a large work (32 x 47 5/8 inches – 81.3 x 121…