Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2012

  • Gérard Michel

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    Gérard Michel is a Belgian architect based in Liége, who also teaches courses in sketching and drawing at the school of architecture there. Aside from that, I know little about him except for the wealth of his wonderful location drawings as displayed on the Urban Sketchers blog and on Michel’s own Flickr sets. He sketches…

  • The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau, Claude Monet

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    I just love this particular painting by Monet, even though it is in some ways uncharacteristic of the work for which he is best known. In this early painting, done when he and several other early Impressionist painters had come to join their Barbizon compatriots in painting “en plein air” in the forest of Fontainebleu…

  • Ralph McQuarrie, 1929–2012

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    Ralph McQuarrie was one of the best, most important and most influential film concept designers and visual development artists in the industry. He is best known for his groundbreaking work on the original three Star Wars films, but worked on numerous other projects. McQuarrie died yesterday, March 3, 2012, at the age of 82. The…

  • The Story of Animation

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    Though it’s nicely tongue in cheek, The Story of Animation, a short video from graduates of The Animation Workshop, has an actual purpose. The talented young animators graduating from the Danish animation school found companies interested in using animation in promoting their products or services, but they also found their potential clients ignorant of the…

  • Blown Covers

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    Even those who are not regular readers of the magazine often find great pleasure and fascination with the New Yorker’s witty, clever, and often beautifully drawn and painted covers. New Yorker covers are such a recognizable and distinct format, and have so much history of superb work by terrific artists, that they are practically an…

  • Realism from the USA & Canada at Peter Walker Fine Art

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    Despite the cross-pollination of images facilitated by the internet, the actual opportunities for art lovers on one continent to see work by contemporary artists from another are not as frequent as one might like. Peter Walker Fine Art, a gallery in South Australia, is featuring an exhibit of realist painters from the US and Canada…