Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2007

  • Uli Meyer

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    Uli Meyer is an animator, director and the founder of Uli Meyer Studios, a commercial and feature animation studio comprised of a group of talented animators and artists. Meyer has produced or worked on over 300 commercials, many of which you will immediately recognize. as well as animated films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, American…

  • Charles Courtney Curran

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    I was happy I had the opportunity to see the terrific Americans in Paris exhibit at the Met in New York this Fall (continues to January 28, if you get a chance, see my previous post). In the midst of being dazzled by dramatic, large scale works by such luminaries as John Singer Sargent, John…

  • Bob Eggleton

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    Regular readers of lines and colors know that I try to keep a nice mix of art and artists from across many genres of art. I find it particularly interesting when artists cross those boundaries themselves, and have a web presence that showcases more than one artistic path. Bob Eggleton is a well known fantasy…

  • Mark Summers

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    Mark Summers is a Canadian illustrator who works in the time-honored, but infrequently used, medium of scratchboard. (See my posts on Virgil Finlay and Elizabeth Traynor.) There is just something about the balance between black and white and the characteristics of the scratched lines that gives well-done scratchboard drawings a particular appeal. Summers is one…

  • Mélanie Delon

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    Mélanie Delon is a French artist who trained in art history and archeology. She later attended school for game design, but decided that wasn’t the path for her. According to her site, she began to work digitally in Photoshop about a year ago. Since then has been doing digital painting in Photoshop and Painter. Digital…

  • Koji Morimoto

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    Koji Morimoto is one of my favorite animators and directors working in the field of “anime” (essentially just meaning Japanese animation). Morimoto is well respected in Japan, but not well known in the U.S., possibly because he has directed mostly shorts and short segments of films rather than feature length animations. I first noticed him…