Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2007

  • The Power of Art: Van Gogh & Picasso

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    The Power of Art is a new PBS series, based on the book by Simon Schama, and made with his cooperation and participation. In a series of eight broadcasts, the program will examine eight artists and their impact on the history of art, and on the cultural, political and social currents of their time. In…

  • Correggio (Antonio di Pellegrino Allegri)

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    OK, so you’re Jupiter, the most powerful of Roman gods (Zeus in the Greek stories), and apparently the randiest as well, and you’d like to add the beautiful but shy river goddess Io to your long list of conquests; most of whom you’ve caged into a liaison by some form of deception or disguise. What…

  • David Bull

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    In the days long before the convenience of offset printing and the sophisticated inkjet technology of Giclée prints, artists who wanted to create more than one copy of an artwork had to utilize printmaking techniques that were often elaborate and time consuming, though somewhat less so than creating multiple originals. These days many of these…

  • Scott McKowen

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    Well, my friends, here is yet another tantalizingly different artist about whom I could find very little information without having to dig. I first encountered Scott McKowen’s work in the form of his wonderful set of covers for the Marvel Comics limited series 1602 (in which Marvel superheroes are envisioned in that time period, and…

  • Art Out Loud 5

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    Art Out Loud 5 is the latest in a series of in-person painting and illustration technique demos held at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The sessions have been arranged by Irene Gallo, Art Director at Tor/Forge Books and the author of The Art Department blog, and noted illustrator Daniel Dos Santos. These are…

  • Ode to Summer

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    I stumbled across this little gem while browsing through painting tutorials on YouTube. Ode to Summer is a beautiful little animation in which what appears to be a traditional Chinese ink painting comes to life. A dragonfly flits through lotus flowers, koi swim through graceful reeds below the rippled surface of a clear pond and…