Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2012

  • Not Blown Cover

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    Back in March I reported about Blown Covers, a personal blog started by New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly. The blog is loosely based on her book of the same title, Blown Covers, about New Yorker cover submissions that didn’t make the cut, for reasons often fascinating and amusing. The premise of the blog, however,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Corot landscape

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    Ville-d’Avray by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. In the Frick Collection. Click on the image on the main page for the zoomable version.

  • Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration on Tor.com

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    Following up on her terrific previous posts of Picturing Winter, a Solstice Celebration and Picturing Spring, an Equinox Celebration, Irene Gallo has once again invited an array of artists and art directors to give her their suggestions for favorite seasonal images, this time for Picturing Summer, a Solstice Celebration. As in those previous posts, the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait

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    Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy, graphite drawing by Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres. I love how casual the rest of the drawing seems compared to the carefully rendered face. From the Morgan Library and Museum. More here. Use the controls under the image for Zoom and Full Screen.

  • Night Light (Qing Han)

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    Night Light is a delightful and beautifully realized short animation (1 minute) by Qing Han, done as a fourth year project as an animation student at Sheridan College in Ontario. It follows a young girl whose painted fish immediately come to life. You can see more of Han’s visual development work on her website, and…

  • Daniel Sponton

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    There is a fascination to drawings and paintings in which many figures are arrayed in the same space, often in a semi-aerial view that allows for lots of them to be seen at once. Argentinian cartoonist and illustrator Daniel Sponton has developed an illustration style that features hundreds of small figures arranged in sometimes complex…