Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2007

  • Netdiver

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    I hope today is a good day for you to get lost in a time-sink, because here’s another major one. Netdiver is a site that collects and displays links to websites that the author, Carole Guevin, aided by her techie co-founder Jean-François Simard, has selected as particularly appealing and well done. The overall emphasis of…

  • Peter Max

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    Peter Max rose to fame at a pop artist and poster artist associated with the mass media image of the 1960’s psychedelic art movement. Max took his influences from the underground psychedelic concert posters and album art of the time, and the graphically simplified echoes of that art pioneered by Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser,…

  • Preparing images for the web

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    How to Display Your Art on the Web: Part 6 [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.] Atoms to bits Unless you work digitally, in order to get your…

  • Cover Browser

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    Covers of comic books, pulp magazines, and for that matter, magazines and books of any kind, have one purpose — to make you pick that sucker up and run home with it in your sweaty hands after plunking down your hard earned dimes. Cover art, particularly from the lower part of the periodical pool, can…

  • The Barnes Foundation

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    Most small museums, and many major ones, started as the collection of a single individual. Most are strong in a particular area based on that collector’s preference for a genre, time or group of artists. Some collections are more idiosyncratic than others, and The Barnes Fountation, a school and museum in Upper Merion, just outside…

  • Qiang Huang

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    Qiang Huang (pronounced Chong Wong) participates in the online Daily Painters Art Gallery and is listed on Jeff Hayes’ Painting a Day Squidoo lens, along with others involved in the increasingly popular practice of “painting a day”. He is also a member of a group called Plein Air Austin, which is dedicated to outdoor alla…