Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2008

  • Antonio Mancini

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    John Singer Sargent is said to have called Antonio Mancini “the world’s greatest living artist”. Jean-Léon Gérôme called him “a phenomenon”. Mancini was an Italian painter who was so gifted at drawing as a child that he was admitted to the Naples Academy of Fine Art at the age of 12. He was producing accomplished…

  • The illustrators of La Domenica del Corriere

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    La Domenica del Corriere (“Sunday Courier”) was Sunday insert for Corriere della Sera, an Italian newspaper that ran for 90 years, from 1899 to 1989. For most of that time the section featured a full-page illustration on its cover each week. These were often dramatic gouache or watercolor illustrations, almost in a pulp-illustration vein, but…

  • Blurb and Lulu

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    Suppose you’re meeting an art director and you want to leave behind printed samples of your work. You could print out some pages on your home printer and try to assemble them in an office store report cover, or you could go down to Kinkos and have them print and bind it in some kind…

  • Steve Rude: Artist in Motion

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    I received a copy of Steve Rude: Artist in Motion from Flesk Publications. Flesk is a small specialty art book publisher that was the subject of one of my first posts on lines and colors in which I praised their terrific collections of the work of pen and ink greats Joseph Clement Coll and Franklin…

  • Joni Mitchell

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    A surprising number of well-known popular musicians, particularly among those who rose to prominence in the 1960’s, went to art school or or majored in visual art in college. Among them are John Lennon and Stu Stuttcliff, his band’s original drummer, David Byrne, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, several members of Queen,…

  • Lorland Chen

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    For some reason I haven’t been able to fathom, a lot of artists who work digitally in fantasy art or concept art seem to feel the need to go by pseudonyms, sometimes multiple ones. Lorland Chen is alternately known as lorlandchain, Lorland Chain, Wei Chain and Wei Chen. I think one of the last two…