Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • The Arts Map

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    The Arts Map is a new site, still in BETA, that uses a version of Google Maps to list artists, arts organizations, galleries, and other arts related people, places and things in a geographical context. Other than those who operate their own gallery or offer instruction in their studios, I’m not sure how useful it…

  • Jim McVicker

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    California painter Jim McVicker makes his home in Humbolt County, which is part of the rugged and beautiful Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. His paintings of that landscape and others carry the feeling of both mid and late 19th Century landscape painters, with a sense of atmospheric immediacy, and a serene, confident command of…

  • Urban Sketching Symposium

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    Co-sponsored by the Urban Sketchers blog and Flickr group and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, the 1st International Urban Sketching Symposium is slated for July 29-31, 2010 in Portland, Oregon (USA). Registration is now open. You can find all of the relevant information, including instructors, location information and accommodations on the symposium’s blog. There…

  • Tiziano Vecellio (Titian): Polyptych of the Resurrection

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    It’s as fascinating to compare artists’ interpretation of the resurrection of Christ as those of the crucifiction; though, as I pointed out in my post on Rogier ven der Wyden’s Miraflores Altarpiece, the resurrection has been much less frequently depicted in the history of art, despite its importance as a Christian observance. Here, in a…

  • Jon Sullivan

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    I know little about illustrator Jon Sullivan, except that he has done numerous science fiction and fantasy themed illustrations and covers for companies like TSR and Tor. His scenes of dragons, aliens, warriors, beasts and the landscapes of strange worlds are ablaze with fiery electric color, brilliant lights, arcs of electricity and the neon glow…

  • Armand S. Baltazar

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    Armand Baltazar is a concept artist, illustrator and gallery artist based in California. Originally from Chicago, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University and after a time working in advertising, went on to to earn a second BFA in illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His animation…