Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2006

  • Heinrich Kley

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    The relationship of humanity to the natural world is receiving a bit more attention these days, as it becomes clearer that we’re not cleaning the big cat-box we’ve made of our Eden. Artists are often quicker to notice these things than others and some have been pointing out that strained relationship for a long time.…

  • Karl Kofoed (update)

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    This weekend in Philadelphia science fiction fans will be buzzing around Philcon, The Philadelphia Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy, a venerable sci-fi convention (excuse me, conference) that is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. The artist guest of honor at this years convention is Karl Kofoed, a visionary creator of alien worlds that I…

  • Julian Merrow-Smith

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    You will often hear people say that artists, in particular the Impressionists and post-Impressionists like van Gogh and Gauguin, found the quality of the light particularly appealing in Provence, that area in the south of France that was the first province established by the Romans outside of Italy. I have to say that I was…

  • Moira Hahn

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    Moira Hahn was born in Boston and moved west, both physically and artistically, until west met east. She moved to California at one point to continue her education, studied animation as an addition to her BFA and, after working in animation and illustration for time, studied Japanese art in Hawaii and Japan for several years.…

  • John Uibel

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    The term “concept art” is most often associated with movies and games, where the look and feel of characters and environments have to be established before they can be realized in costuming, sets and special effects. In fact, it’s even more important in the planning stages, when the effectiveness of a look is being judged…

  • Greg Newbold

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    It’s easy to assume that illustrators in the U.S. live near the centers of of publishing, like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. While that may be true for a high percentage, the modern era of instant communication, web site portfolios, FedEx and FTP delivery of digital image files makes it practical for illustrators to…