Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2006

  • Tim Knowles

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    This is about trees drawing. No, that’s not a typo for “tree drawings” or “drawing trees”, I mean “trees drawing”. I’m always fascinated with notions of what drawing is or can be. Tim Knowles has been working on a series of tree drawings that are actually drawings made by trees. Knowles sets up the conditions…

  • Karl Kofoed

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    So you’re in a friend’s house and you notice this book on the coffee table. More like a magazine, really, with a thick spine and somewhat oversize pages, but there’s this amazing image on the cover of two spacecraft and what appear to be human and non-human figures spacewalking, drifting out toward a meeting over…

  • Boneville Reloaded

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    Jeff Smith’s Bone is one of the best examples of an independent comic breaking out into mainstream awareness on the basis of sheer quality. It’s a wonderfully drawn, imaginative, involving and beautifully realized comic series that has been collected in a series of books, translated into editions all over the world, printed in popular magazines,…

  • Little Fluffy Clouds

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    When I first saw the recent animated McDonald’s ad for their Aisian Salads (“Queen for a Day”), with its retro-sixties animated movie credits style images, I was reminded of the nicely crafted eSurance ads created by the Ghostbot animation studio (see my previous post on Ghostbot). The McDonald’s ad is the creation of a studio…

  • Kelly Freas

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    The 1950’s was a time when interest in science fiction and fantasy flowered. Pulp science fiction magazines and inexpensively printed books became increasingly popular and along with the stories came an increased demand for illustration. Frank Kelly Freas, who generally didn’t use his first name professionally (and whose last name is pronounced “freeze”), started in…

  • Fred Wessel

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    After taking a trip to Italy to view the art of the Renaissance, Fred Wessel was inspired to explore not only Renaissance painting techniques but the idea, common in that time but almost unknown now, of the painting as a precious object. His sharply incised portraits, nudes, flower studies and still lifes are often set…