Lines and Colors art blog

Year: 2010

  • Your First Print: a introduction to Japanese Woodblock Printmaking

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    Your First Print is a rich media eBook by David Bull. Bull is an English born Canadian printmaker, now living in working in Japan, who has an extraordinary devotion to the art and craft of Japanese woodblock printing. That devotion is evident not only in his own work, but in his study of the art,…

  • Jason Caffoe

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    Freelance illustrator and concept artist Jason Caffoe works on a number of projects for which he can’t show or talk about his recent work, but his blog does have some work from older projects, along with engaging images from personal projects. There is one current project that he can discuss, his contributions as colorist, background…

  • Stephen Bissette

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    Stephen Bissette is an American comics artist known for his drawings of monsters and dinosaurs and his work on horror comics titles, in particular for several award winning series of DC Comic’s Swamp Thing with writer Alan Moore. The home page of Bissette’s site serves as a blog, though there is also a specific blog…

  • Gwenn Seemel

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    Gwenn Seemel is an Oregon based portrait artist with an unusual technique. her colorful portrait images are built up from a series of cross hatch strokes in acrylic, a process she developed from an interest in printmaking. As you can see from the demo on this page, she starts with areas of color shapes, often…

  • DinoMixer Reviewed on Wired’s GeekDad

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    I don’t often talk about my own work here on Lines and Colors, but every once and a while there’s something interesting enough to mention. I was particularly pleased when I learned that my dinosaur mix and match iPhone app DinoMixer was given a very nice review this morning on Wired. The review, Build Your…

  • Karen Hollingsworth (update)

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    Since I last wrote about painter Karen Hollingsworth in 2006, she has continued exploring her luminous room interiors, which have evolved into “windowscapes”. Many painters will work to fill rooms with light, but Hollingsworth’s rooms are volumetrically filled with the palpable presence of light and air. Sea air lifts gossamer curtains, through which sunlight slides,…