Month: October 2010
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Bill Mayer
Bill Mayer’s wonderfully energetic and delightfully loopy illustrations are flashes of pure visual hyperbole. His intensely colorful and beautifully rendered animals, monsters and freaked-out people just about jump off the screen, eyes a-goggle and huge toothy grins as wide as their heads (if they have heads). Mayer has a website with examples of his work…
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Art in Flanders, animated view of Flemish art
Art in Flanders is an animation that serves as the introductory page for the Lukas image bank of digital reproductions of Flemish art. The image bank itself can be searched and browsed by theme, timeline, or style. The image previews are zoomable, though within a frustratingly small window. The animation, however, is larger. In it…
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Laura Barnard
UK based illustrator Laura Barnard specializes in cityscapes and architectural subjects, “the more complicated they are the better”. She works in both traditional and digital media, mixing them at times. Her fine line approach works well in her portrayal of complex jumbles of buildings, latticed with detail and texture. She has an informal line, allowing…
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Van Gogh’s self-portraits
For an artist so prolific, from whom over 850 paintings and 1,200 drawings have survived, it’s stunning to realize that Vincent van Gogh’s active career spanned only a single decade, from his decision to pursue art at age 27 in 1880, to his untimely death in 1890. During that time he produced over 30 self…
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The Banishment of Beauty, Scott Burdick
Those who have been reading Lines and Colors over time may have noticed that despite the deliberate crossing of genres, and the mixture of different aspects of visual art, there is a common thread of art that takes its basic structure from the traditions of representational art, You may also know that I have often…