Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2011

  • Andrew Hem

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    Andrew Hem is an illustrator and gallery artist whose illustration clients include The Atlantic, LA Times, Chicago Time Out, New Scientist and Fort Worth Opera. Hem, originally from Cambodia and now based in Los Angeles, studied at the Art Center College of Design. He works in gouache and acrylic in a painterly, textural style that…

  • Kevin Nelson

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    Kevin Nelson is a visual development artist for the animated film industry, in particular Disney Animation Studios. He has worked on films like The Emperor’s New Groove, Tangled, Bolt and Meet The Robinsons. What little I know about him is not from any biographical material conspicuously absent from his blog, but simply because he has…

  • Audubon’s Birds of America

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    If your impression of the paintings of French-American naturalist, ornithologist and artist John James Audubon is based on small reproductions of some of his more subdued bird images, you may be surprised by the views afforded in this terrific online resource. The University of Pittsburgh, which owns a rare complete edition of Audubon’s Birds of…

  • Daniel van Benthuysen

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    Artists often select themes within their chosen disciplines, producing series of works with similar subjects. Daniel van Benthuysen, originally from St. Louis and now based on Long Island, NY, is exploring two themes that I find particularly interesting. One is a series he calls “Rooftops” in which the edges and angles of rooftops form his…

  • Nicolai Fechin drawings on Inspiration blog

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    Wow. Francis Vallejo has gifted us with a collection of drawings by the superb Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin on his aptly named Inspiration blog. Be sure to click on the images for the larger versions; in many cases they are quite large. Some of the images are a bit rough, I don’t know if that’s…

  • Emily Carroll

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    Emily Carroll is an illustrator working in the television animation industry who is also a webcomics artist. You can find galleries of her illustration and webcomics on her website, as well as additional material on her blog, along with some Flickr sets. Carroll works in an open line and filled color style, accented with textural…