Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Erik Tiemens (update)

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    I’ve written previously about Erik Tiemens, and his blog Virtual Gouache Land. Tiemens has recently redone his web site at watersketch.com with an emphasis on his gouache and watercolor paintings and sketches. There are also galleries of oil paintings, drawings and photography. Tiemens’ gouache paintings, though sometimes combined with watercolor or pastel, often take advantage…

  • William Smith

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    After graduating from Clemson University, William Smith started his career in advertising, eventually working with clients like Coke, Novartis, Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble. In 2008 he shifted into a new career as a concept artist in the gaming industry, and is now working with TimeGate Studios. His online portfolio is divided into three sections,…

  • Charlie Powell

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    Charlie Powell is an illustrator whose incisive, entertaining and deftly rendered likenesses of public figures have been featured in print and online publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Washington Post, Wired, Fortune, Playboy, Slate.com and Salon.com. He has a knack for capturing both a likeness and a characteristic pose…

  • Luc Desmarchelier

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    Luc Desmarchelier is an art dierctor at Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as a concept and visual development artist who has also done work for DreamWorks Animation and Amblimation/Universal Studios. Desmarchelier maintains two blogs, Ushusia, which showcases his professional work, and harmattan, which is devoted to his personal projects, paintings and sketches. He doesn’t include…

  • Parkour Motion Reel

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    This is an amusing little animation that was made as a course assignment by a design degree student in Singapore, who goes by the handle “saggyarmpit” on Vimeo. She points out that it was done fairly quickly, the drawings illustrated with technical pen and rough around the edges, and expresses surprise at the degree of…

  • Jules Breton

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    Jules Breton, whose full name is Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (what, no hyphens?), was one of the most famous and in demand academic painters of the 19th Century. He fell into disregard and semi-obscurity in the 20th Century, suffering particularly at the pens of Modernist critics who deemed him one of the terrible academic…