Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2012

  • Dermot Power (update)

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    Dermot Power is a concept designer and visual development artist with an impressive list of credits in feature films like Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, V for Vendetta and three of the Harry Potter films, as well as high-end gaming projects like Bioshock 2. Since…

  • Scott Tallman Powers

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    Originally from Alabama and now based in Chicago, Scott Tallman Powers works both on location and in the studio, painting landscape subjects as well as figurative works. At times he combines both elements in paintings evocative of his travels to China, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco and other countries. These more complex figurative compositions frequently have something…

  • Ronald Searle, 1920-2011

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    Perhaps more than any other art form, cartoons can serve to foment dissent, arouse ire at injustice, mock the powers that be and shake up the status quo. Which brings us to the brilliant cartoonist Ronald Searle, who died December 30, 2011 at the age of 91. I’ve listed some obits below, along with links…

  • Kiah Kiean

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    Kiah Kiean is an architect, designer and artist. He has a loose, gestural sketching style with which he renders scenes of his native Penang, Malaysia, as well as townscapes and cityscapes from his travels. Kiean works in ink, wash, graphite and watercolor. He posts images of his sketches on his artblog and Flicker stream and…

  • John Atkinson Grimshaw

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    If, like me, you have had access to the same art museum for several years, you have likely developed favorites — works you look forward to seeing again and again as you return to the museum. For me one of these has been a painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled Liverpool from Wapping…

  • Pigments through the Ages

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    Pigments through the Ages is a web feature that explores artists’ pigments and their history in a series of brief, interconnected articles. From the navigation at page top you can Choose a Pigment, though I found it more informative to Browse Colors, as that gives you an overview of the limited list of pigments included…