Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Don Kenn

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    Don Kenn (whose blog also confusingly lists him as John Kenn) is a Danish writer and director of childrens’ television shows. In his limited spare time he draws “Monsterdrawings” on Post-It notes; as he describes them “…a little window into a different world, made on office supplies”. The drawings, of ghouls and ghosts, sea monsters…

  • Mark Summers (update)

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    I have long been fascinated by pen and ink drawing, and its mirror world cousin, scratchboard. Both are demanding mediums, but scratchboard is additionally difficult in that the unfamiliarity of working by subtraction rather than addition takes some practice, as well a mental shift (in common with some printmaking techniques); but the rewards are a…

  • Kenn Backhaus

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    Kenn Backhaus is a contemporary realist painter who is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America and past president of Plein Air Painters of America. Backhaus was one of the painters featured in the 2007 PBS series Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape, and is instrumental in the independently produced series Passport and Palette,…

  • Christopher Denise

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    Christopher Denise is a visual development artist who has worked with companies like Fox/Blue Sky Studios and Treanor Brothers Animation. He is also a children’s book illustrator whose clients include Candlewick Press, Penguin, Harcourt Brace McMillan and McGraw Hill. His website portfolio includes sections for character design, props design, environments and more. The work on…

  • Unfinished classic Disney pencil test

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    A “pencil test”, as I mentioned in my recent post about Pencil Test Depot, is a hand-drawn animation sequence (or entire cartoon) in pencil, prior to the steps to final inking and painting. A rare Disney animated short that was never finished, a classic style 7 minute Mickey Mouse cartoon called Plight of the Bumble…

  • More Peder Mørk Mønsted

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    Since I wrote about Danish landscape painter Peder Mørk Mønsted (sometimes written as Peder Mørk Mønstead) two years ago, the wonderful World Wide Web has continued to do what it does best — grow at an astonishing rate, bringing with it the joy of even more resources on Mønsted’s work. Notably, Wikimedia Commons now has…