Month: January 2009
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Juxtapoz Archives
Juxtapoz is an alternative art and culture magazine, loosely dedicated to outsider art, urban contemporary art and “lowbrow art” (or “pop surrealism”). The magazine was started by Robert Williams, who was at one time an assistant to Ed, “Big Daddy” Roth. Williams was also a pioneering underground cartoonist (one of my favorites) and contributor to…
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60 Photoshop Tutorials
Noupe has aggregated a list of 60 Photoshop Tutorials from various sources. The list includes links to other lists of tutorials, so it’s actually a few hundred links and tutorials. Some of them are directed specifically at creating digital art in Photoshop, like these 100 that I mentioned in a previous post (more here), and…
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Coraline Graphic Novel
Since the jolt of receiving my Coraline Mystery Box I’ve been understandably curious about the upcoming animated movie, and equally frustrated that I can’t yet find a significant repository of Coraline concept art (though I did come across some very early concept drawings here). I’ve also noticed that the Coraline movie web site is now…
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Mike Hernandez
I’ll start with a slight disclaimer, in that Gallery Nucleus, which is currently having a solo exhibition of Mike Hernandez’ work, is also currently an advertiser on Lines and Colors. That being said, when I check in on Gallery Nucleus, it often turns out that they have something on exhibit that is interesting to the…
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Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel was a French Academic classical painter who showed notable skill at drawing at the age of 11 and entered the École des Beaux-Arts at 17. He quickly began exhibiting at the Paris Salon. He was renowned as a portrait painter as well as a painter of historic, religious and classical subjects, and eventually…