Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2008

  • John Mattos

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    John Mattos has applied his crisp, colorful illustration style to editorial illustrations for publications like Time, Newsweek, Forbes, and Fortune; and commercial clients like Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Citibank. He has taught illustration and drawing at De Anza College, Academy of Art University, and California College of Arts and Crafts and has lectured at UC…

  • Walt Kelly

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    “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Walt Kelley’s revision of an 1813 quote from Commodore Perry (“We have met the enemy, and they are ours”), and his famous reworking of a classic Christmas song as “Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie”, may actually be familiar to a larger number of people than…

  • Glenn Harrington

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    Glenn Harrington’s figures, portraits and landscapes display a painterly approach and fascination with light that reminds me of Sorolla, Sargent, and some of the painters generally called “American Impressionists“, but with the chiaroscuro temperament of Rembrandt and Carravaggio demanding equal time for darkness. Perhaps the most direct comparison I’m tempted to make would be with…

  • Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007

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    The winners of the 2007 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest have been posted. This is the second international contest and the entries are stunning examples of the visual beauty and intellectual fascination to be found in fractal based art. Benoit Mandelbrot, the mathematician responsible for coining the term “fractal” and creating the deceptively simple expressions…

  • Aleksi Briclot

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    Aleksi Briclot is a Paris-based concept artist and art director for the gaming industry as well as an illustrator and comics artist. His game credits include lead artist on ColdFear, a horror themed action game from DarkWorks and Ubisoft, Splinter Cell Double Agent and the new titles Haze from Ubisoft and Dungeon Runners from NCSoft.…

  • Jason Waskey

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    Jason Waskey is an Seattle based artist who has applied his talents in several areas of artistic endeavor. He has been in turns a freelance illustrator, art director for a newspaper and a comic book company, instructor for the Art Institute of Seattle, comic book artist, painter and gallery artist; and is currently an art…