Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2007

  • Portraits of Sandra Day O’Connor

    For many years I have been going, on and off, to open figure drawing and painting sessions here in Phliadelphia at either the Philadelphia Sketch Club or the Plastic Club, two of the country’s oldest arts organizations. These are not classes, per se, with a set course of instruction, but simply sessions where artists jointly…

  • William Joyce

    I finally got to see Meet the Robinsons, Disney’s 3-D, 3-D CGI animated feature. (How are we going to phrase that?) I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised and liked it much more than I anticipated. Part of that is due to the design work, adapted from concept drawings by William Joyce, who…

  • Camille Pissarro

    It’s remarkable how much of our picture of history is formed by generalized impressions. There is an impression, for example, that Claude Monet was the central figure around which the revolutionary painting style of French Impressionism formed; as it crystalized out of the pioneering Realism of Gustav Courbetand the incisive directness of Camille Corot and…

  • Colin Wilson

    In addition to the multitude of individual artists’ styles in comics art, there are some very broad generalized categories, like the intense stylizations of Japanese manga, the anatomical exaggerations and dynamic action of American super hero comics, and the somewhat more restrained amalgam of styles that could loosely be called “European”, although practiced by comics…

  • PJ Loughran

    PJ Loughran is a busy guy. In addition to his career as an illustrator, creating his wonderful line and color illustrations for clients like The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated, Nike, Ford, Simon and Schuster and Harper Collins, he has served as the Design Director and Creative Director at the AGENCY.COM, and has…

  • David Cunningham

    David Cunningham is a contemporary American realist painter originally from Tennessee and now living in Indianapolis. Cunningham practices a crisp, sharply focused realism, concentrating on still life and blending over into trompe l’oiel. His still life paintings begin with carefully arranged tableaux of personal objects, chosen both for personal meaning and, I would think, as…