Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2010

  • Gobelins Students Animations for Annecy 2010

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    As usual, this year’s wonderfully talented (and obviously superbly instructed) crop of students from the Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris have created short (60-90 second) animated films that are shown as introductions to the events of each day of the years’ Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy (Annecy Animation Festival).…

  • Sandra Wakeen

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    Sandra Wakeen is a Connecticut based painter who transitioned from a career in illustration and commercial art into portraiture, then added still life and landscape to her subjects. She has traveled and studied in Europe, most recently with Tony Ryder at Studio Escalier in France. Wakeen’s portfolio website showcases her crisp, sharply focused still lifes,…

  • Threadless T-shirt designs, sketch to print

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    Threadless is an online T-shirt store in which designs are solicited form the community and put up for popular vote. A few of the highest rated designs are then selected by the company for sale and the designers are paid a set fee. The designs are usually gently humorous, wry or clever in some way.…

  • Craig Nelson

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    After a career as an illustrator with clients in the recording and movie industries, California artist Craig Nelson transitioned into gallery art full time. Nelson has a lively, painterly approach in his paintings of landscapes, towns and portraits. Some of his recurring subjects include workers in vinyards, the narrow streets and canals of Italian towns,…

  • Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

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    Mary Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was an Edwardian period English illustrator, gallery artist and stained glass designer. She studied at the Crystal Palace School of Art and then at Royal Academy, and was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society. She illustrated children’s books, Authurian ledgends and poetry by well known authors including Tennyson and Browning. She worked…

  • Kathryn Rathke

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    I’m just guessing, but I have a notion that Seattle based illustrator Kathryn Rathke’s early fascination with art may have coincided with an interest in hand calligraphy. Her drawings, both black and white and color, are based on wonderfully calligraphic lines — dancing, looping and jogging across the page; at times almost seeming to construct…