Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2011

  • TIJI Colour, Akama Studio

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    Colour (Vimeo link) is a beautifully realized short animation (2:30) in which a moving brush brings color to a black and white jungle landscape and its inhabitants — save one. The commercial short was done for TIJI, which I believe is a French children’s channel. It was created by Akama Studio, working with the production…

  • The Linosaurus

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    The Linosaurus is a fascinating blog devoted to “…the lesser Gods and Goddesses of linoleum and woodblock printing”. In it, the author, a blogger in the Netherlands (who I identifed as “Gerrie Caspers”, inferred from the URL of the blog and his email address) selects printmakers both old and contemporary, known and unknown, and features…

  • Did Van Gogh have protanomal color deficiency?

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    About 8 percent of male human beings, and a much smaller 0.5 percent of females, have some form of color vision deficiency, commonly called “color blindness”, in which the perception of colors is limited or altered in some way compared to the general population. It has been suggested at times that Vincent van Gogh’s unusual…

  • John Bonner

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    I came across the work of John Bonner through his Comic Crits — book reviews in the form of comic strips (see my previous post on Comic Crits). Unfortunately the images of his work in his online gallery are frustratingly small, given the relatively large scale of his work. You can find somewhat larger images…

  • Comic Crits, John Bonner

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    Comic Crits are book reviews done by artist John Bonner in the form of one page comic strips. The reviews are often (though certainly not always) of books in the science fiction or fantasy genres, such as Neal Stephenson’s Reamde (above top), and The year’s Best Science Fiction 28, edited by Gardner Dozois (above, bottom).…

  • Rajesh Sawant

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    Rajesh Sawant is a painter based in the city of Nasik, near the western coast of India. His work is known to Americans primarily through art competitions from RayMar Art and Canvoo, and exposure in magazines like International Artist. Sawant works in acrylic and watercolor. His primary subjects are portraits and townscapes. In both, he…