Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2007

  • Little Sammy Sneeze

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    It is sometimes pointed out that Americans have contributed two original art forms to the culture of the world, jazz and comic strips. Though both have precedents, they achieved the state for which they are identified here in the U.S. One of the earliest pioneers of the latter is still one of its all time…

  • Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country

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    It has been suggested that the Impressionists painted as they did partly because they deliberately abandoned their academic training before it was complete, and were therefore incapable of painting “realistically”; as though they were the punk rockers of their day, eschewing the facile technique of their predecessors for the “honesty” of making art without the…

  • Zip and Li’l Bit (update)

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    I found myself in a sour mood the other day and in need of some distraction and entertainment that didn’t involve gunshots, car chases, fist fights, explosions, betrayal, murder, infidelity, gratuitous nudity, scandal, deceit, lies and horror. So I turned off Fox News and looked to the list of web comics that I like to…

  • Sketchtravel

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    I don’t know about you, but I can sometimes be a little intimidated by my own sketchbooks, specifically in cases where I’ve made some drawings that I feel were particularly successful, and become reluctant to add to them, either from worry about carrying a sketchbook with drawings I like in it around and losing it,…

  • Craig Elliott

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    (Image above © Disney) Craig Elliott is an illustrator, visual development artist and layout artist who works in the film industry. He has worked on numerous films for Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks and other studios. His credits include titles like Bee Movie, Shark Tale, Flushed Away, Mulan, The Emporor’s New Groove and Treasure Planet. He…

  • Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art Show

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    I’ve long maintained that both men and women have only one erogenous zone. (Got your attention, didn’t I?) I’ll further maintain that this single erogenous zone is located in the same physical location for both sexes, directly between… the ears. Nothing is sexy unless you think it’s sexy. Which is why life drawing sessions are…