Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2007

  • Etch-A-Sketch at 47

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    Short of crayons, maybe the Etch-A-Sketch, which turns 47 this week, has earned it’s tagline of “World’s favorite drawing toy”. We’ve all done it, right? Artists and non-artists alike, twirling the little plastic knobs, trying to make diagonals and curves, which was a little like patting your head, rubbing your stomach and chewing gum at…

  • The Venice Chronicles (Enrico Casarosa)

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    I’ve mentioned Enrico Casarosa before. A multi-facetied artist who does storyboards for Pixar, but is also a character designer, comics artist, designer, illustrator, blogger and dedicated sketcher. Casarosa is the instigator of the Sketchcrawl drawing events. Last summer Casarosa took a trip to Veince, that most magical of Italian cities, and instead of just making…

  • Tristan Schane

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    Tristan Schane began his art career doing comic book illustration for companies like Marvel, DC, First Comics and Continuity Comics. He began to do more painted covers and moved into more general illustration, producing work in watercolor, gouache, acrylic and oil for covers, posters, promotional art and merchandise. He eventually moved into doing paintings specifically…

  • Basil Wolverton

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    What has skin like the cratered and mountainous surface of an alien planet, teeth that look like diseased barnacles, popping bloodshot eyeballs that would have made Big Daddy Roth grimace in envy and, of course, carefully combed hair and a pearl necklace? Why, it’s one of Basil Wolverton’s charming beauties, of course! Wolverton was a…

  • Sarah Mensinga

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    Sarah Mensinga is an illustrator and concept artist living in Texas. The brief bio on her site indicates that she is a graduate of the Sheridan College classical animation program, and has worked on various animated TV shows and films, including The Ant Bully. You can see some of her work for that film in…

  • Rembrandt on The Power of Art

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    Rembrandt is the subject of the PBS/BBC program The Power of Art being broadcast tonight on most PBS stations here in the US. I’ve had plenty to say about Rembrandt in the past, so I’ll leave you with those posts and the subject of the first of them, www.rembrandtpainting.net, which is probably the most comprehensive…