Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2006

  • Jon Foster (update)

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    When I point you to web based resources for images from the artists I feature on lines and colors, I don’t emphasize nearly enough how limited those images are when compared to images in print. I’m second to none in my appreciation for how well images can display on screen. I was one one of…

  • Arkady & Gennady Pugachevsky

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    Engraving is a painstaking and demanding art form that once was widely practiced but today seldom attracts the attention of young artists. It requires a great deal of patience, planning and physical precision, in addition to artistry, but the results can be wonderful. Sometimes a skill like engraving can be passed down from one generation…

  • Jeff Hua

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    Jeff Hua is a concept artist for Electronic Arts in Los Angeles, and has worked games like GoldenEye: Rogue Agent and is currently working on an unannounced PlayStation 3 title. I don’t know of a repository for his finished concept illustrations, but his blog features his sketches, “doodles”, speed paintings, life drawings and some older…

  • Olga Dugina & Andrej Dugin

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    Olga Dugina and Andrej Dugin paint lavishly detailed, richly textured and enthrallingly odd illustrations for children’s books. Their intricately detailed paintings can, in turn, carry the feeling of Medieval tempera paintings, the grotesque fantasies of Bosch and Breugel, the carefully arranged tableaus of renaissance tapestries and, in the their collaboration with Madonna (yes, that Madonna)…

  • Georges de la Tour

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    Somewhere between the emotional drama of Caravaggio and the crystalline stillness of Vermeer lie the intimate, candlelit paintings of Georges de la Tour, a French master whose work was all but forgotten between his death in 1652 and its rediscovery in the early 20th Century. I doubt that la Tour was directly influenced by Vermeer…

  • BibliOdyssey

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    Well, it happened again. I was trying once again to bring you this post and I got lost. You see, I fell down a rabbit hole, found myself among the very large and the very small, and as everything became curiouser and curiouser, lost myself wandering in wide eyed fascination through a seemingly endless wonderland…