Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2009

  • Walter Wick

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    Walter Wick is a photo illustrator and children’s book author, best known for his highly popular “I Spy” and “Can You See What I See” books. Wick works photographically, but instead of taking photographs of real world scenes, he constructs small dioramas, painstakingly designed, intricately crafted and carefully lit, that he then photographs. In a…

  • The Animator’s Survival Kit (Richard Williams)

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    In the 1990’s, Richard Williams, the Canadian animator responsible for the brilliant animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, began teaching an Animation Masterclass in various locations around the world. It was attended by members of major studios like Disney, Pixar, ILM, Dreamworks/PDI and Warner Brothers; who knew a Good Thing when they saw it. Williams’…

  • Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera

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    I’m not one of those who thinks that the use of optical devices like a camera obscura (Wikipedia) or photographic reference is in some way “cheating” or diminishes the value of an artist’s work. Artists have always used whatever visual aids were available to them, from grids of string across viewing frames to the old…

  • Laurel Daniel

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    Laurel Daniel is a painter from Austin, Texas, whose fondness for the practice of plein air painting gives her larger studio works a similar freshness and immediacy. She studied at Wheaton College with additional coursework at San Francisco Academy of Art and Austin Museum Art School. In addition to painting full time she also teaches…

  • Ivan Aivazovsky

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    Ukrainian/Russian painter Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) was born in Crimea, an island-like peninsula that extends the southern part of Ukraine into the Black Sea. In a career that spanned a good deal of the 19th Century, he painted nearly 6,000 canvases, over half of which were seascapes. He painted the sea at rest and…

  • Travisty’s Beard

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    Goro Fujita, who I wrote about in 2008, was kind enough to write and let me know about a new blog called Travisty’s Beard. This is a collaborative art blog whose members are concept, production, character, and design artists from the art department of PDI/DreamWorks. The blog has no official relation to PDI/DreamWorks, it’s just…