Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2007

  • John Avon

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    (Image above © Wizards of the Coast) English fantasy artist John Avon is one of many in his field who have made the transition from traditional media like oil and acrylic to digital painting. In the section of his site devoted to biography and technique, he goes into more detail than most about the reasons…

  • Theo Jansen

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    A number of sculpture related links have come up as a result of my post about Lawrence Northey last Thursday. Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures are particularly fascinating because they walk back and forth (literally) across the supposedly fixed line between art and engineering. These amazing artifacts are built of ultralight materials and constructed of levers…

  • Tim Prentice

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    Another artist whose work crosses boundaries between disciplines, kinetic sculptor Tim Prentice was trained in architecture at Yale, founded a successful architectural firm, and went on to establish a studio to create kinetic sculpture. Prentice creates beautifully balanced and intricate mobile-like sculptures, flying out from the aerial paths first pioneered by Alexander Calder. His pieces,…

  • Ree Treweek (update)

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    When I first wrote about the delightfully original and idiosyncratic art of South African artist Ree Treweek back in March of 2006, I was a little disappointed in the lack of information about the artist and her work, and the limited number of her images available online. I was pleased when artist/blogger Siouxfire (Michael Curry)…

  • Suncage (Jon Hall)

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    I will be the first to admit that, when it comes to painting “en plein air” (outdoors), I am a fair weather painter. Days when it’s even mildly chilly find me sitting cozily in font of a computer monitor, or the in the comfort of a heated studio indulging in the convenience of photographic reference.…

  • Free Comic Book Day 2007

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    OK, so maybe you haven’t picked up a comic book since you were 12, and you’re so past that; or maybe you’ve never picked up a comic book and you’re so beyond that; or maybe you just associate comics with steroidal aberrations in spandex bashing into one another like runaway freight trains and you’re so…