Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2009

  • Brett Helquist

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    Brett Helquist is best known for his illustrations for the popular A Series of Unfortunate Events children’s books by “Lemony Snicket” (Daniel Handler). Helquist was born in Arizona, grew up in Utah, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University, and currently lives and works in New York City. He…

  • Joseph Zbukvic

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    Joseph Zbukvic is a Croation born artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Zbukvic’s atmospheric, emotionally resonant watercolors have a wonderful characteristic of being simultaneously loose and crisp — loose in that he suggests rather than elaborating, and crisp because of his masterful command of edges. He has a highly refined sense of when to…

  • Blue and green, or is it?

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    Like anyone who works with painting, design or color in any form, I occasionally struggle with color; not just with mixing and choosing colors, but with the actual perception of color, the ability to answer the seemingly simple question “What color is that?” All of my studies of color and color theory have led me…

  • John Pugh

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    Trompe l’oeil, French for “trick the eye” is an illusionary art technique with a long history in Western art. The intention is to create an optical illusion, in that the viewer is given the impression that there is a three dimensional object or scene before them, not just a realistic image (see some of my…

  • Juan Gallego

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    Spanish painter Juan Gallego paints images that are technically floral paintings, though they are unlike any I have seen. Gallego takes his inspiration in close-ups of flower forms that are convoluted, multi-layered and often have a wrinkled or withered appearance. These are the basis for his large scale compositions (it’s instructive to see a photo…

  • Peter Gric

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    Born in the Czech Republic, Peter Gric emigrated to Austria at the age of 12, and studied at the Academy of Arts in Vienna. His paintings are representational, but they largely depict imaginary objects or landscapes, that can at times seem architectural, at times organic and at other times, a combination of the two. Gric…