Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2011

  • Karin Jurick’s Museum Hours

    Who would think that paintings of people with their backs to you could be so compelling? When I first wrote about Atlanta based painter Karin Jurick back in 2006, one of the things I admired, in addition to her bright, fresh, painterly approach, was her series of paintings of art museum patrons, in situ, as…

  • Galactik Trading Cards

    Galactik Trading Cards are collectable cards printed with images of work from over 100 artists from the fields of visionary art, magic realism, contemporary surrealism, fantasy art and related genres. Some of the artists are among the most recognized names in their genres, other are new or less well known. The initiative’s website has galleries…

  • Artists’ portraits of fantasy and science fiction authors on TOR.com

    Arnie Fenner, co-founder and editor of the Spectrum collections of fantastic art, has written an article for Tor.com titled Lovecraft, Asimov, GRRM, Heinlein & More: Painting SFF Writers in which he collects some portraits of fantasy and science fiction authors by a number of artists. Covering authors in the genre as far as Mark Twain…

  • Pierre Adolphe Valette

    Little known Impressionist painter Pierre Adolphe Valette was born in St. Etienne, an industrial city in France, and spent much of his career living and working in Manchester, an industrial city in the north of England. He studied in France at the fine arts school in Bordeaux, and in England took evening classes at the…

  • Chet Zar, Dan Quintana and Mark Garro at CoproGallery

    In what I believe is not exactly a group show but three coordinated solo shows that run concurrently and shared an opening, the CoproGallery in Santa Monica, California is showing the work of Chet Zar, Dan Quintana, Mark Garro. The gallery has provided previews of the work of all three artists (links in above paragraph).…

  • They Draw and Cook – the book

    As I mentioned in my post from last year, They Draw and Cook is a site on which illustrated recipes (or recipes as illustrations) are posted on a regular basis. Created either by artists who cook or cooks who draw (for whatever difference that may be), the recipes are a far cry from your old…