Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2012

  • Produce crate labels

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    Before the austerity imposed by World War II, produce in the US was shipped in wooden crates with colorful, carefully designed and illustrated labels, meant to set each producer apart from the others. The relatively sudden advent of cheaper cardboard boxes left many of the crate labels unused and they have become collectors items. A…

  • Juliette Aristides

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    Juliette Aristides is perhaps most widely known as the author of the highly regarded books Classical Drawing Atelier, Classical Painting Atelier and Lessons in Classical Drawing. Though the emphasis there is on her undeniably strong figurative work, it is her still life subjects that I personally find most compelling. In much of her work references…

  • Kris Wiltse

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    Kris Wiltse is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Washington State. In her illustration work she favors the unusual medium of block printing, working in linocut, woodcut and scratchboard. Wiltse also works in watercolor for her gallery art and personal sketching, as well as for a secondary speciality in interpretive signs — informative location…

  • Edouard-Léon Cortès

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    These seems to be an unofficial school of painting that included a number of post-Impressionist artists who specialized in painting views of Belle Époque Paris, and took particular interest in contrasting the browns and grays of buildings and overcast skies with the warm yellow and orange glow of windows lit by gaslight. These included Eugene…

  • Dorothea Tanning, 1910-2012

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    American Surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning, who was also a printmaker, sculptor, writer and set designer, was already pursuing her own dream-like compositions when she was introduced to the work of the European Surrealists at their 1936 exhibition in New York. She then met and became lifelong companions with Max Ernst. Like Ernst, Tanning moved from…

  • Lisa Nilsson

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    I can across Lisa Nilsson’s work in an article on Visual News about her anatomical quilling. Quilling is a practice that traces back at least to the Renaissance, in which strips of paper are rolled into shapes, usually around a quill — hence the name, and glued together to create designs, ornaments and images. It…