Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2006

  • Big Spanish Castle and
    e-Chalk color perception

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    Here are a couple of interesting diversions that dramatically illustrate the degree to which color perception is controlled by the effect of previous or adjacent colors. The first, Big Spanish Castle, is a simple, but dramatic and fun, color-based optical illusion. Based on the visual effects of complementary colors and the optical/brain phenomenon known as…

  • Pencils!

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    It’s often said that the greatest joy comes from the simplest things. In these days of gel pens, precision markers, synthetic brushes, high-tech plastic paints and digital painting software, it’s easy to overlook the humble pencil, which was actually something of a technological marvel itself at one time. Pencils were created after the first major…

  • MKZDK

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    Beautiful fractal-based tessellations by Stephen Miller. The “visions” section contains the images, with links to downloadable desktop-size files. “Cosmos” is quotes on cosmology from various sources. “Lounge” and “Site” are mixed bags. This site has been on the Net as long as I can remember (and that’s going back to when the Internet was considered…

  • Art Out Loud

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    There are a number of illustrators and artists who have posted demonstrations of their painting techniques online, but how much better it is when you can see artists demonstrate their working process in person. Art Out Loud is a series of demos at the Society of Illustrators in New York, conceived and arranged by Tor/Forge…

  • Daniel Dos Santos

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    Dan Dos Santos is a Connecticut illustrator who has done work for a variety of commercial and editorial clients, including Boeing Aircraft, Scholastic, Ace Books, Penguin, Tor Books, UpperDeck and Wizards of the Coast. His refined realist style allows him to create convincing images of fantastic subjects, including lively dragons, startling monsters, convincing wizards and…

  • Paris Breakfasts (Carol Gillot)

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    Ah, Paris, city of light, city of culture, city of romance, city of… breakfasts? But, of course! Paris Breakfasts is a delightful blog by watercolorist Carol Gillot. Part deja-travelog, part sketch-blog, part paean to sweets and the sweet life, it meanders from food to travel to watercolor technique, often in the course of the same…