Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2008

  • Basil Gogos

    Basil Gogos is a master of monsters. I tend to think of him as a post-pulp pulp artist. He got to paint wonderfully lurid illustrations of famous movie monsters years after the high-period for pulp art had closed. His delightfully ghastly portraits of Dracula, The Mummy, The Phantom of the Opera, The Metaluna Mutant, The…

  • Frits Thaulow’s Water Mill

    When I wrote about Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow back in 2006, I mentioned that he had become one of my favorite painters on the basis of a single, striking painting that is part of the Johnson Collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. That painting is Water Mill, shown above. When I wrote the article…

  • Kinuko Y. Craft

    Kinuko Y. Craft takes inspiration from many strata of the history of art and weaves them together into her own intricate and varied images of fantasy worlds; and isn’t afraid to let the threads keep their connection to the original sources of inspiration. Looking through a gallery of her work, you’ll find a fascinating display…

  • Sherry De Ghelder

    Sherry De Ghelder is a painter in the St. Louis area who has taken up the “painting a day” regimen, painting small postcard size paintings of everyday objects such as fruit, vegetables, candy, small toys, and so on. De Ghelder’s latest series, which I came across by accident while browsing, is something else again. She…

  • Robert Carter

    English born Canadian illustrator Robert Carter’s clients include numerous periodicals and publishers as well as commercial accounts. He has been the recipient of awards from the Society of Illustrators, The Artist’s Magazine and Communication Arts. His illustration portfolio contains many of his highly textural, strongly designed and fascinatingly realized illustrations. What really sparks my interest,…

  • Goro Fujita

    Goro Fujita was born in Japan, grew up in Germany and studied there at the German Film School, where he concentrated on 3-D character animation. He is now a freelance character animator and visual development artist. The gallery on his site focuses mainly on his personal work. The section of finished work only contains 15…