Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Evgeni Gordiets

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    Ukrainian painter Evgeni Gordiets was trained at the National School of Fine Arts, State University of Fine Arts and the State Academy of Fine Art, all in Kiev, Ukraine. You will sometimes hear his paintings referred to as “sunny” or “serene” Surrealism. Though I doubt that Gordiets adheres to the actual tenants of the original…

  • The Boing Boing Cartoon Circus

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    For the past week or so, Stephen Worth, Director of the always amazing ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive (which I have mentioned on several occasions) has been guest blogger on Boing Boing. During that stint he has given us a series of treats including the Boing Boing Cartoon Circus, a list of some wonderful classic cartoons. These…

  • Sergio Martinez

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    Born in Mexico, Sergio Martinez studied art at the Academie de la Gandre Chaumiere in Paris, and has had a long career in illustration for book and advertising clients in France, Switzerland, Spain, UK, Mexico, the US and other countries in Central and South America. That I haven’t encountered his work until recently just boggles…

  • Bill Turner

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    The landscapes of Bill Turner come with invitations. Most of them follow a compositional motif of roads, often central to the image, inviting you to step onto the road and follow it into the landscape. Turner lives and works in the Atlanta, Georgia area. His landscapes, painted in oil and acrylic, are softly rendered, at…

  • This Is Where We Live

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    This Is Where We Live is a short stop-motion animation by Apt Studio and Asylum Films. It is a promo for 4th Estate Publishers, and the “where” it refers to is the world of books. The designers and animators have taken a literal take on the phrase and created a world made, literally, from books.…

  • Ericka Lugo

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    Ericka Lugo is an illustrator based in Puerto Rico. Beyond that, I know little as her web presence doesn’t include much in the way of bio or a published credits list. Her illustrations, done digitally or in ink and gouache, have a whimsical stylized feeling and are often punctuated with passages of bright red. I…