Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2012

  • ilovedust bike illustrations

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    ilovedust is an design, illustration and animation studio based in London. Among their other projects they have created a series of nicely graphic bicycle themed illustrations, both as covers for The Ride Journal and as a series of prints offered through ClickForArt.

  • Eric Bowman (update)

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    When I wrote about Eric Bowman, an artist originally from California and now based in Oregon, back in 2008, he was transitioning from a successful illustration career into placing more emphasis on his gallery art. He is now focusing primarily on his gallery painting and his website showcases his landscapes and figurative work, as well…

  • Josh Kao

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    Josh Kao Is a concept designer and illustrator whose clients include Disney, Rythym and Hues Studio. Irrational Games, Microsoft 343 Industries and Electronic Arts, among others. Kao has a nice touch with atmosphere and atmospheric perspective, as well as a nicely theatrical use of lighting and a strong ability to use restricted palettes to advantage…

  • Museum of Fine Arts Budapest on Google Art Project

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    Sigh. Another day, another treasure trove of high resolution masterpieces on the Google Art Project — this one from the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest. (Images above: Maximillian Lenz, Albrecht Dürer, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Leonardo da Vinci, Dominico Fetti, Arnold Böcklin, Renbrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet)

  • Eye Candy for Today: Cervantes by Doré

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    Miguel de Cervantes – Don Qixote, plate 1: A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination by Gustave Doré. On Wikimedia Commons. Note: the high-resolution file linked from the preview image is genuinely high-resolution: 30mb! Detail crops above are at about one quarter full resolution. I love the tiny…

  • Arto Isotalo

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    Arto Isotalo, a self-taught painter living in Espoo, Finland, appears to have taken as his source of instruction his admiration for painters like Anders Zorn and Joaquín Sorolla. He wears his influences on his sleeve, and wears them well, with fresh, fluid brushwork, crisp value delineations and subtle control of color in his figures, portraits…