Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2008

  • Pose Maniacs (update)

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    Pose Maniacs, which I wrote about in 2007, is a Japanese web site that features 3D models of human figures, rendered with superficial musculature, for sketching and drawing reference. A high percentage of them are in an interface that allows you to turn them 360° on their vertical axis for a complete rotation of point…

  • Lucong (Cong Hua Lu)

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    Born in Shanghai, China during the “Cultural Revolution” (a time in China that could more accurately be called the “Cultural Wasteland”), Lucong (Cong Hua Lu) moved with his family to the American midwest at the age of 11. [Correction, he grew up in the period just after the Cultural Revolution, see this post’s comments.] He…

  • Evelien Lohbeck

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    Noteboek, an animation by Evelien Lohbeck that recently won the prize for best NOFF-film 2008 a the Netherlands Film Festival, is one of the cleverest and most amusing animations I’ve seen in a while. Taking off from the notion of a sketchbook in which a computer keyboard and screen have been drawn, it goes on…

  • Mick McGinty (update)

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    I’ve been writing about the “painting a day” phenomenon for about three years now, along the way looking at a number of painters who aren’t trying to maintain the strict “one painting a day” routine, but are instead painting on a regular but less frequent schedule. Often, these painters can devote themselves to larger and…

  • Yutang Yang

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    Chinese artist Yutang Yang draws intensely intricate pen and ink drawings of landscapes, in which his detailed approach creates evocative representations of the visual textures of trees, bark and grasses. This approach is particularly effective in his depictions of winter forest snow scenes, like Bewildering (image above, with detail, larger image here), in which the…

  • Ford Madox Brown

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    Ford Madox Brown was a Victorian painter who is often mentioned or included in books and articles on the Pre-Raphaelites. Though he was lifelong friends with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the leader of the Pre-aphaelite Brotherhood, and was philosophically in keeping with many of their ideals and artistic aims, he was never actually a member of…