Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2010

  • DinoMixer Reviewed on Wired’s GeekDad

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    I don’t often talk about my own work here on Lines and Colors, but every once and a while there’s something interesting enough to mention. I was particularly pleased when I learned that my dinosaur mix and match iPhone app DinoMixer was given a very nice review this morning on Wired. The review, Build Your…

  • Karen Hollingsworth (update)

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    Since I last wrote about painter Karen Hollingsworth in 2006, she has continued exploring her luminous room interiors, which have evolved into “windowscapes”. Many painters will work to fill rooms with light, but Hollingsworth’s rooms are volumetrically filled with the palpable presence of light and air. Sea air lifts gossamer curtains, through which sunlight slides,…

  • Vintage Ad Browser

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    When I revisited the Cover Browser site in the course of writing my recent post on CBR’s 50 Best Comic Covers of 2009, I discovered that an entirely new sister site had been added, Vintage Ad Browser. The collection includes ads in a variety of genres, arranged within them by decade. Some categories go back…

  • How to Spot a Rembrandt

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    I’ve mentioned before (also here) that the attribution of works to artists from the past is often an inexact science, perhaps more of an art in itself. Attributions change, and works once identified with one artist are subsequently assigned to another, or often, to pupils of the artist. Sometimes the reverse happens, and works once…

  • CBR’s 50 Best Comic Covers of 2009

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    As I pointed out in my 2007 article on Cover Browser, comic book covers have a singular focus: to make you notice the cover, pick up the printed pamphlet or booklet to which it is affixed, slap down your hard earned dollars, and run home clutching it to your chest, cackling maniacally with glee at…

  • Billy George

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    One of the things that appealed to me right away when I browsed through the (still in progress) portfolio site for concept artist and designer Billy George was the nicely otherworldly color schemes he worked with in his environment paintings for Spacetime’s Blackstar game project (image above, top). He used palettes of seemingly not-of-this-Earth colors,…