Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2006

  • Koren Shadmi

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    Koren Shadmi’s site includes illustration, drawings, comics (in PDF format) and prints, but very little in the way of biographical or background information. Shadmi has a blog called PAPERfeast, which includes work and sketches, but is sometimes more of a personal journal style blog than one devoted to displaying work. Without more time to read…

  • The National Portrait Gallery

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    It’s hard to get to the National Portrait Gallery. Not because it’s remote, at least for those of us on the east coast of the US. Like most of the museums associated with the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery is conveniently located in central Washington, D.C. (a few blocks north of the Mall at Eighth…

  • Acid Keg (Steve Hogan)

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    Here’s a webcomic to get “cool” with in the hot days of August. So there’s this band, see, except that it’s just two people, but they get a new drummer, except that he’s really a secret agent looking for a cover, and they have these adventures, except that they’re more like pastiches of 60’s modern…

  • Artist Trading Cards

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    No, it’s not kids sitting around chewing bubble gum and saying “I’ll trade you two Holbeins for a Rembrandt.” (Although I love that idea.) Artist Trading Cards are small, usually original, works of art by contemporary artists (or non-artists) that meet certain criteria and are swapped between artists and collectors. The original concept came from…

  • John Gurche

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    John Gurche is a paleontological artist known for the near-photographic realism and compositional drama in his scientific reconstructions of prehistoric life. Gurche was a consultant on Jurassic Park and provided paintings for the 1989 dinosaur stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. His illustrations have been in numerous books and have been featured in magazines like…

  • Olga Antonenko & Arseny Gutov

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    Olga Antonenko & Arseny Gutov are Russian concept artists, matte painters and illustrators who work in a variety of traditional and digital media. On their shared gallery site, CGpolis, you’ll find drawings, engravings, paintings, pastel, digital painting and 3-D CGI rendering and compositing. The GCpolis site is somewhat enigmatic and mentions neither artist by name,…