Year: 2010
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Steve Thomas
Illustrator Steve Thomas, when not creating graphics and illustrations for newspapers in his day job, turns his imagination to other places, creating wonderful retro-future travel posters that invite you to explore interplanetary travel to destinations in the Solar System, or interstellar travel in a familiar galaxy that is “far far away”. In addition to the…
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Color Vision & Art
Color Vision & Art is an online feature on WebExhibits, which describes itself as an “interactive museum of science, humanities and culture”. The feature is a series of related articles, accompanied by images and simple Flash interactives, that explore the relationship of human color perception to the uses of color in art. The feature is…
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PumpkinMixer
I don’t often talk about my own projects on Lines and Colors, but sometimes they’re enough fun to be worthy of note. PumpkinMixer is my new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Like my other apps, DinoMixer and MonsterMixer, it was developed with my friend and colleague Leon Stankowski, who created the coding to…
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Chappatte
Patrick Chappatte is a political cartoonist with an international reach, and a personal history to match. Born in Pakistan, Chappatte was raised in Singapore and later Switzerland. He lived in New York for a time and now lives and works in Geneva. Chappette’s global view comes across in his cartoons for the International Herald Tribune…
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Learning to draw: where to go from here
Tim, a Lines and Colors reader, wrote me to say that he had recently become inspired to return to the practice of drawing. He had purchased a copy of Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (see my post here), and was looking for other books and resources to pursue his interest…
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Irving Ramsay Wiles
The son of Hudson River School painter Lemuel Maynard Wiles, Irving Ramsay Wiles began study with the great American painter William Merritt Chase at the age of 18. He studied with both Chase and noted painter James Carroll Beckworth at the Art Student’s League in New York, where he would later teach. Wiles continued to…