Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2013

  • Istvan Banyai

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    Istvan Banyai is an illustrator and animator originally from Hungary and now living in the U.S. His extensive client list includes The New Yorker, The New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Time, Fortune, Sony Records, Capitol Records Viking Books/Penguin Books, NBC, Random House and many others. His…

  • Sam Burley

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    Sam Burley is an illustrator who was formerly an matte painter; beyond that, his website offers little information. His work shows his matt painting history, with beautifully realized landscapes and environments, but he also populates them with dynamic and wonderfully rendered creatures. Fortunately, Burley provides good size images on his site, as his work shows…

  • Tom Betts

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    Utah based painter Tom Betts sees the world in a teacup, or at least finds fascination with light playing across the forms of teacups in various situations — in water, on tables, whole and broken. He also finds meaning and emotional resonance in the compositions he creates with teacups, seeing them as metaphors for aspects…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Campin’s St. John the Baptist and Heinrich von Werl

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    Saint John the Baptist and the Franciscan Heinrich von Werl, Robert Campin. Commissioned by a contemporary 15th century Franciscan to portray himself praying in the company of Saint John, this is, like Jan van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, another marvel of detail and glazing. It was in paintings like this that…

  • Jake Parker (update)

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    Jake Parker (no relation to your correspondent) is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist based in Utah. His visual development credits include work on Rio, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Horton Hears a Who and Titan A.E. He is familiar to many as the author and artist of the Missile Mouse all…

  • Durer’s Melencolia I

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    Meloncolia I, Albrecht Dürer. One of the most iconic engravings by one of art’s great printmakers, Melelcolia (an archaic spelling of melancholia) is filled with symbols of alchemy and carpentry (architecture), along with various measuring tools, an hourglass, a polyhedron and a “magic square” — the rows of which add up to 34 in all…