Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2011

  • Isabel Guerra

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    Sister Isabel Guerra is a nun at the Cistercian monastery of Santa Lucia, Zaragoza in Spain. She is a self-taught painter whose work in oil is often strikingly realistic, at times leaning to classical styles, at other times with more modern elements. Though she also paints landscapes and still lifes, her primary subjects are portraits…

  • Jack Morefield

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    Boston based painter Jack Morefield paints large scale acrylic paintings, usually portraits and often of contemporary music, pop culture or even literary figures, in which the image is composed of swirling arrangements of colored strands. These strands, or bands if you prefer, are at times more or less defined; Morefield works with their edges as…

  • Brian Blood (update)

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    I came across an mention of his name the other day that made me want to revisit the work of California plein air painter Brian Blood. There are now literally hundreds of his subtle but richly colored paintings on his website. Don’t miss the fascinating series in which he paints the interiors of California Missions.…

  • Justin Sweet

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    Justin Sweet is a concept artist, illustrator and gallery artist who works primarily in the fantasy genre. He has worked on motion picture projects like Game of Thrones, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Green Lantern and illustration projects like Magic: The Gathering. Though his gallery art is in oil and watercolor, Sweet works…

  • LG Optimus facade mapping

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    I’ve written previously about 3-D animation video projection on the sides of buildings, specifically about those created by NuFormer. I’m uncertain who created this example in Berlin (the only credit line I can find says “Facade Mapping Image Show”, but I can’t find a site for that name), but it’s probably the most striking one…

  • Art Nouveau style mural in Montreal

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    Here in Philadelphia, which has, I believe, more anti-graffiti murals than any other city in North America, I’ve seen my share of large scale and nicely done murals on the sides of buildings. However, in Montreal, members of A’Shop, an artists collective that draws from the graffiti and street art culture, has created a mural…