Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2008

  • Mouse Guard (David Peterson)

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    Mouse Guard is a comics series (graphic story) about medieval knights, life in medieval villages and communities, territorial differences, commerce, war, and the harsh conditions that marked life in Europe in the middle of the 12th Century; except that the story is about communities of mice, told almost in parallel, as though this were a…

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 at the Brooklyn Museum

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    We tend to think of Japanese prints as depicting serene, contemplative scenes of mountains and gardens; and characterize them as the work of Zen-like removal from the bustle of everyday life. On hearing that the term Ukiyo-e, the name for one of the most prominent genres of Japanese prints, refers to “pictures of the floating…

  • Rogier ven der Wyden’s Miraflores Altarpiece

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    It’s interesting that in the great body of art throughout history that has been inspired by Christianity, or commissioned directly by the various expressions of the Christian church, the resurrection of Christ, the event that is the basis of the important observance of Easter, doesn’t seem to be one of the more common subjects for…

  • Todd Ford

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    Todd Ford is a painter and art teacher living and working in Texas. Ford paints in a deftly rendered realist style that pays particular attention to smooth surfaces and sharp contrasts in sometimes closely related colors (greens and blues, oranges and yellows). He has some frequent subjects, including a series of paintings of plastic toys…

  • My Father’s Hand (Samuel Wray)

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    My Father’s Hand is a tribute blog, created by designer Amanda Wray to showcase the drawings of her father, Samuel Wray. Samuel Wray was a commercial artist in some capacity, though I know little about his commercial work other than that he did some inking and lettering projects for comics, notably for a Robinson Crusoe…

  • Gary Kelley

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    Gary Kelley is a well-known American Illustrator with a long list of impressive clients, including Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and numerous agencies and design firms. He has received 27 gold or silver medals from the Society of Illustrators in New York, and was…