Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2013

  • My new post on Tor.com on concept art and the real U.S. space program in the 1950's

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    I’ve written new article for Tor.com titled “How Concept Art Helped Sell the U.S. Space Program“. In it, I of course explain what I mean by the title, showcase some terrific space art by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Rolf Klep, and link to a source for more. You can see my previous articles for…

  • Eric Spray

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    Eric Spray is a concept artist for the Gaming industry who has worked on projects like worked on projects like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Singularity, Black Ops and Modern Warfare 3. Though he is prevented by non-disclosure agreements from posting his most recent work, his blog features an array of past work, along with personal projects,…

  • Lidia Luna

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    Though I’ve never had much of an eye for fashion, I do have an appreciation for fashion illustration, which sometimes shares some characteristics with comic book illustration, in that it has often been done in line or line filled with tone or color. Unfortunately, advances in newspaper printing technology, which permitted improved reproduction of photography,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John Hamilton Mortimer etching

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    Comedy (from Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds), John Hamilton Mortimer In the metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and Download arrow. The outside dimentions of the sheet on which the etching is printed are roughly 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (29 x 19 cm). Another example of that wonderful quality of…

  • William Nicholson

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    William Nicholson was a British painter, engraver, lithographer and illustrator noted for his portraits of well known individuals, along with landscapes and still life. I find his still life paintings particularly appealing. Their subjects, sometimes a bit unusual, are rendered with a painterly touch and an eye to soft contrasts of value and color.

  • Contre temps

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    Contre temps is a beautifully designed and wonderfully realized short (8 minute) animated film that was the graduation project of a group of talented French animation students. It uses 2-D backgrounds and 3-D animation that has been given a hand-drawn feeling. Contretemps, when used as a single word, means an unexpected or inopportune event. When…