Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • The Codex Seraphinianus (Luigi Serafini)

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    When you were a child, and your parents first exposed you to that wondrous medium of information storage and dream exchange known as a “book”, it was an object that was only moderately intelligible. As a pre-reading age child, the pictures may have had immediate meaning, but the other marks, which you would later come…

  • Ray Roberts

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    California plein air painter Ray Roberts paints bright, open and airy California landscapes. His influences seem to run to pioneering California Impressionists like Hanson Puthuff and to a lesser extent, Granville Redmond. This is particularly evident in the atmospheric qualities of his work; colors, though vibrant, are often softened in contrast, and their intensity muted…

  • Patrick Gannon

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    Illustrator Patrick Gannon creates his illustrations and artwork entirely out of cut paper (and wood, which often acts as the “canvas”). He lives and work in Japan, where he found that his penchant for cut-paper art fit into a long cultural tradition of which he was previously unaware. Gannon studied literature at Providence CoOllege in…

  • Coby Whitmore

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    Known of his romantically suggestive story illustrations for magazines like McCalls, Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal during their heyday in the 1940’s and 50’s, Coby Whitmore was a major figure in the wave of new style illustration that flowered at the time (see my post on Al Parker). After studying at the Dayton Art…

  • Nate Simpson

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    Nate Simpson is a concept artist who has worked in the gaming industry since 1993. He has worked for companies like The Dreamers Guild, Taldren, GoPets Inc. and Gas Powered Games. His credits include leading the art team for Demigod, a 2009 game from Gas Powered Games and Stardock, from which you can see an…

  • Jeffrey Hayes (update)

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    I’ve profiled Boston based painter Jeffrey Hayes before (also here and here). After being an early adopter of the painting a day regimen, Hayes realized that his inclinations required more time, even when painting on an intimate scale. Today he follows that direction, painting small, carefully composed and rendered still life paintings, with an eye…