Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Illustration 30

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    I’ver written before about Illustration magazine, the beautiful quarterly periodical published by Dan Zimmer that showcases in-depth, lavishly illustrated articles on classic illustrators, both well known and undeservedly obscure, all presented with stunning production values. Illustration 30 is out, featuring articles on Ellen B. T. Pyle, one of Howard Pyle’s students who married his brother…

  • Paul Madonna: All Over Coffee

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    “Predictable” is a word that, sadly, often applies to the contents of modern newspaper comics pages (what remains of them). In February of 2004 readers of the San Francisco Chronicle suddenly found themselves confronted with a new feature on the comics page, “All Over Coffee” by Paul Madonna, that set that notion nicely askew. As…

  • Moonshine

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    Moonshine is the name of a group show that opens this Saturday, August 24, 2010, at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra California. It features the personal work of 45 concept artists, production designers, art directors and character designers from DreamWorks Studio. The list of participating artists includes a number of artists that I have featured here…

  • 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,…