Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2011

  • Hudson River Landscapes at Peabody Essex

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    The Hudson River School is a collective name for two generations of painters working in the areas in and around the Hudson River Valley in New York who transformed American Art, and landscape painting in general, in the early part of the 19th Century. Painting the American Vision is the title of a new exhibition…

  • Caricatures and facial recognition on Wired

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    I’ve long held that the most challenging subject for representational drawing and painting is the human figure, and in particular, the face. This is because we recognize, and can detect small inaccuracies in faces and the human form more easily than in any other part of the natural world. If you draw a tree, and…

  • LOST: The Animated Series character designs (Michael Myers)

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    Illustrator and animator Michael B. Myers has given us his vision of what the characters from the LOST television series would look like if they were designed for an animated series. As unlikely as that possibility may be (except perhaps in alternate reality timeline limbo) it’s fun to have his nicely stylized treatment of some…