Month: September 2011
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Keiko Tanabe
Originally from Kyoto, Japan and now living in San Diego, California, watercolor artist Keiko Tanabe has traveled extensively and applied her eye and brush to scenes from Japan, China, France, Italy and the U.S. Her beautifully atmospheric watercolors capture a sense of time and place, accomplished with careful control of color, suggestions of texture and…
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Into the Pixel
Into the Pixel is a yearly juried art exhibit showcasing concept and visual development art from the gaming industry. Sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences and the Entertainment Software Association, the exhibition is displayed at the E3 Expo. You can also view the selections from this year, as well as the past…
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Robert Beck
Contemporary representational painter Robert Beck paints many of the same subjects as other plein air painters, but often with a different perspective and intention. Where others might paint a landmark or familiar scene, Beck looks for the often ignored aspects behind or within the commonplace that put a scene in context — the back rooms,…
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Artist Carol Marine’s house lost to fire
Artist Carol Marine, who I have previously featured here on Lines and Colors, has lost her house and studio to the wildfires currently ravaging parts of Texas. The fire devastated their entire subdivision. She and her husband and their son were not harmed, but they were able to take only what they could carry when…
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Jean-François Millet
Today is “Labor Day” here in the U.S., a holiday set aside to honor the economic and social contributions of working people to the society. Ironically, the holiday has come to represent leisure — a three day weekend signifying the unofficial end of Summer. Perhaps, in the midst of a current political climate in which…
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Ernst Fuchs
Ernst Fuchs is an Austrian painter, printmaker, draftsman, sculptor and architect who was one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, and remains its most prominently known member. Like the other members of that school, Fuchs took much of his inspiration from the painting techniques and detailed realism of the early Flemish…