Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Continuous Pencil

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    Well, the “Liquid Pencil” turned out to be a dud, so how about a more modest bit of pencil inventiveness? Most of us who use wooden drawing pencils have experienced the stub problem; once your wooden pencil is worn down to a stub that’s too small to comfortably use, what do you do with it?…

  • ImagineFX #60

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    I’ve written before about ImagineFX, a UK based magazine devoted primarily to 2D digital art (“digital painting”) for the fantasy, science fiction and concept art fields. Almost every issue of the magazine I’ve every seen has had articles of interest to me, (and ImagineFX is one of those magazines, like Illustration magazine, in which even…

  • The Vegetable Museum, Ju Duoqi

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    It has long been an established practice for artists to study the paintings and drawings of artists from the past by creating their own copies of the masters’ work. Ju Duoqi just happens to use vegetables as her medium. Her “Vegetable Museum” is a series in which she has arranged vegetables, fresh and otherwise, chosen…

  • Barbara Kacicek

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    Pennsylvania artist Barbara Kacicek favors a few subjects to which she returns frequently. One is small still life subjects, particularly pears, plums and smooth river stones. Another is compositions of clouds, often mounded and towering cumulus clouds. To these she adds drawings that veer away from realism into “Imaginary Realism”, done with smooth tones of…

  • Jeremy Bastian

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    I just came across Jeremy Bastian this morning in Cory Doctrow’s post on BoingBoing about a commissioned drawing he did: an extravagantly detailed homage to Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo (see my posts on Winsor McCay, and here). The owner of the drawing, Ben Friedman, has been kind enough to share it with us by posting…

  • Blow Up: Hanuka, Shimizu, Weber

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    Blow Up: Hanuka, Shimizu, Weber is an exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in NY that features three artists I’ve profiled previously, Tomer Hanuka, Yuko Shimizu and Sam Weber. The organizers make a point of the disparate backgrounds and visual approaches of the three artists. Hanuka’s richly colored comics illustrations, Shimizu’s admixture of Yukio-e and…