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Month: August 2013

  • Takeshi Oga

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    Takeshi Oga is a Japanese concept artist and illustrator working in the gaming industry. He has worked on projects that include Gravity Rush, Siren 2, Siren: New Translation, Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI Online: Wings of the Goddess. Aside from that, his website provides little information. A number of the images featured on…

  • Kazu Kibuishi's new Harry Potter cover illustrations

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    Illustrator and comics artist Kazu Kibuishi, who I have written about previously, has recently had the enviable task of creating new cover illustrations for the Scholastic re-printings of the Harry Potter books. There is a brief interview with Kibuishi and some of the covers on io9, and an article with I think one additional cover…

  • Eye Candy for Today: The Merode Altarpiece

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    Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), Workshop of Robert Campin Here we find the early 15th century artist(s) diving headlong into the capabilities of the newly adopted medium of oil painting, exploring its capacity for layers of richly colored glazes and almost infinite ability to accommodate the desire for minute detail. The entire triptych, open, is only…

  • Mark Boedges

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    Originally from St. Louis and now based in Burlington, Vermont, where he and his wife recently opened a gallery, Mark Boedges is a plein air painter who finds similar geometric strength in compositions of creeks strewn with ics age boulders and trainyards lined with freight cars or ships at harbor. In all of his plein…

  • Wilmington, Delaware gets an art store!

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    I’m happy to report that Jerry’s Artarama, an art supplier familiar to many from their online presence and a chain of retail stores across the U.S., has opened a store in Wilmington, Delaware. And why, you ask, should this be of interest to the wider national and international audience of Lines and Colors? Well, it’s…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alma-Tadema's Moses

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    The Finding of Moses, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The link above is to the file on Wikimedia Commons (click on their image for large version) though the image at top is from a version on WikiPaintings (click “Show Sizes” for larger versions). I think the latter image has better color, though it has been inexplicably flopped…