Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2010

  • Colin Campbell Cooper

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    Colin Campbell Cooper was an American impressionist painter active in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He was, within that rather loose classification, the foremost among them in the portrayal of architecture. He is also one of my personal favorites. Known for both his later paintings of California gardens and landmarks, as well as…

  • deviantART Muro

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    For a while now deviantART, the online arts community portal, has been teasing it’s members and visitors with an “It’s coming..” campaign, touting an event to coincide with deviantART’s 10th anniversary on August 7th. The event was the release of deviantART Muro, a new online digital painting and drawing application that works in the browser.…

  • Pájaro

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    Pájaro (pronounced páh-hah-ro), who takes his name from a childhood nickname meaning “bird”, is a Venezuelan artist who spent much of his youth and adolescence in Spain. He embarked on his path as a self taught painter at the age of 23. Returning to Venezuela he brought back with him the influence of European Medieval,…

  • Sharpie Liquid Pencil

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    Sharpie, makers of the iconic line of markers and pens, has announced a Liquid Pencil, a pen like instrument that makes lines with “liquid graphite”. The lines are apparently erasable like a pencil, but dry into ink like permanence in 24 to 36 hours (depending on whether you believe the packaging or the Sharpie blog).…

  • Iain McCaig (update)

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    Iain McCaig is one of the film industry’s foremost concept designers. He is widely known for his beautiful concept art for the Star Wars and Harry Potter films, among others. When I last wrote about McCaig in 2006 I pointed out how impressed I was with his beautiful concept drawings in the Art of Star…

  • The Brooklyn Museum

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    It has often been pointed out that the borough of Brooklyn, if it were not part of New York City, would stand on its own as one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., perhaps 4th or 5th largest. Like most American cities of that size, Brooklyn has a world class art museum. Unlike…