Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2010

  • Zahra’s Paradise

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    Working under assumed names for obvious reasons, writer “Amir” and artist “Khalil” chronicle events in Iran in the wake of the disputed elections of 2009 in an ongoing story called Zahra’s Paradise. Zahra’s Paradise is a graphic story that is being published as a webcomic in installments every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It just started…

  • Edward Sorel

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    Edward Sorel’s wonderfully loose and gestural cartoon illustrations have been featured on the covers and interiors of magazines like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harpers, Forbes, The Nation, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine for a number of years. His pen and ink and watercolor images capture personalities, places and situations with wry humor…

  • William Wendt

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    In an essay for the Laguna Art Museum, Michael McManus referred to the wave of American painters who brought the influence of the French Impressionists to California in the early 20th Century as “Impressionism’s Indian Summer”. Impressionism flowered late in California because it was largely a remote area before the turn of the century. The…

  • Jordu Schell

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    Jordu Schell makes monsters; icky, scary, grotesque and hairy, monsters, aliens, creatures and beasties of all manner and configuration. Schell is a sculptor and concept artist working in the film industry. His credits include Avatar, Leigon, War of the Worlds, Hellboy, Galaxy Quest and many other feature films. Schell is primarily a sculptor, working in…

  • Jos van Riswick

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    Jos van Riswick is a contemporary Dutch still life painter, living in Nijmegen, Holland, and working in the general tradition of the Dutch still life painters of the past. Van Riswick is a self-taught painter, originally having studied and then taught physics. He started painting in an Impressionist style; but then, after becoming familiar with…

  • Thom Tenery

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    If you look at enough concept art, particularly within the gaming industry, much of it can come to feel repetitive and even formulaic; which why I was so pleased to discover the concept art of Thom Tenery, which is delightfully imaginative, unique and wonderfully realized. Tenery studied Architecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and…