Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2013

  • Zdeněk Burian trove

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    Someone has posted an absolute treasure trove of work by the great paleo artist and natural history illustrator Zdeněk Burian on Flickr! The set is extensive and includes numerous paintings and many drawings of his range of subjects, including dinosaurs, flying reptiles, prehistoric mammals, undersea life, prehistoric plants, primates, early humans and portraits of famous…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Hide and Seek

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    Hide and Seek, James Jacques Joseph Tissot My fascination with this painting by Tissot (an underrated painter in my opinion), in not so much the ostensible subjects of the children playing as their mother reads, but the play of light among the wonderfully tactile surfaces and objects in this fascinating space, which is in the…

  • Peter Ferguson (update)

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    Peter Ferguson is a Canadian illustrator and gallery artist whose illustration clients include the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Dow Jones Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Los Angeles Times, TBWA Chiat Day, ITP Nelson, Prentice Hall and Marvel Comics. Originally from Montreal, Ferguson studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In his illustration…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Dulac’s Father Time

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    Father Time, Edmund Dulac On The Pictorial Arts (click on image for larger version). See my post on Edmund Dulac.

  • Impressionists on the Water

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    French Impressionism has always been associated with water. The painters themselves were drawn to the seashore and the rivers of France, filling their canvasses with dappled colors of light dancing across the surface of water under a variety of conditions. Impressionists on the Water is an exhibition of 80 paintings and drawings by Impressionists, Post-Impressionists…

  • Kristina Nguyen

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    Kristina Nguyen is a visual development artist for the entertainment industry. Nguyen studied at the Art Center College of Design and is now woking with Rooster Teeth, designing environments for projects that include the Web series RWBY. Nguyen’s website portfolio is not extensive, but it includes concept designs for an unspecified project in which she…