Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2010

  • Terrick Williams

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    Terrick Williams, who you will also find mentioned as Terrick John Williams, and occasionally John Terrick Williams, was an English painter who specialized in landscape and marine paintings, in oil, watercolor and pastel. Initially, his desire to be a painter had to be deferred, and he was required to work in his family’s soap and…

  • More goodies from Sotheby’s

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    For those who are frustrated by the seeming shortage of high-resolution images of great paintings on the web, and are tired of navigating little zoom windows to try to get a glimpse of brushwork or paint surface, one resource for full screen high-resolution images of artwork is the auction catalog preview feature on the Sotheby’s…

  • Greg Betza

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    Illustrator, gallery artist and designer Greg Betza works for clients like The Chicago Tribune, E & J Gallo Winery, St Louis Magazine, Utne and DDB. He has received recognition from The Society of Illustrators of LA, Communication Arts and American Illustration. Betza creates wonderfully loose, gestural line drawings filled with bright splashes of watercolor. Interestingly,…

  • Paul Lasaine

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    Paul Lasaine is a concept artist and production designer for the film industry. He has worked with Disney Animation and Sony Pictures Animation and is currently a production designer at Dreamworks Animation. He was also an art director on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Lasaine’s blog showcases both his professional work and personal projects.…

  • Leah Palmer Preiss (update)

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    Since I last wrote about the wonderfully eccentric illustrations of Leah Palmer Preiss back in 2007, there haven’t been many additions to her web site (which seems to be in a kind of “under construction” twilight zone), but she has been putting her attention into a blog that she started shortly after my article appeared.…

  • Jack Davis caricatures of NBC’s entire fall lineup for 1965

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    The great cartoonist, caricaturist and humorous illustrator Jack Davis is best known for his contributions to Mad Comics and Mad Magazine, particularly during the title’s heyday in the 1950’s and 1960’s, but he was a prolific illustrator and his work appeared in a variety of venues. One of them was TV Guide, for which he…