Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2007

  • Ed Terpening

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    Sometimes paintings convey the sense of the work and careful craft that have gone into their execution; at other times they can reflect other aspects of the painter’s art. Ed Terpening’s paintings just look like fun to me. His big, juicy brushtrokes, laden with color and filled with the texture of bristles, look like they…

  • The Skillful Huntsman

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    Scott Robertson, Entertainment Design Director at the Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, created a project with three of his top students, Khang Le, Mike Yamada, and Felix Yoon, in which they used the Grimm Fairy tale of The Skillful Huntsman as a springboard for a project about the process of learning concept design.…

  • Building your web site

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    How to Display Your Art on the Web: Part 3 [This is part of a series of articles for which the introduction and list of articles is here. If you haven’t read the introduction yet, it would be helpful to read it first.] Once you’ve found a web site hosting provider and acquired a domain…

  • Zhaoming Wu

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    Zhaoming Wu is a Chinese painter and teacher who has been a professor of painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art in China and is currently an instructor of panting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His work has garnered awards in China, Europe and the U.S. and has been featured…

  • Ron Mueck

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    I don’t often devote a lot of attention to sculpture, but, as I noted in my recent post on Claes Oldenburg, one of the things art does at its finest is to shake up our preconceptions and show us the world with fresh eyes. Ron Mueck’s astonishing sculptures of ordinary, non-heroic people do just that.…

  • Laura Wilder

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    I first came across Laura Wilder’s unusual “house portraits” when doing research a year or so ago for a project I was working on with FusionSpark Media called the Florida-Friendly Interactive Yard. I was looking for reference on various styles of rendering houses and I was struck by Wilder’s approach. Though she sometimes uses watercolor…