Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2013

  • Common Cause uses comics infographic to explain Verizon's latest attempt to undermine Net Neutrality

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    Common Cause is using a long, scrolling, comics style infographic to explain the latest attempt by Verizon to undermine the principle of Net Neutrality. Called Big Deal, Big Money, the graphic was co-produced with Symbolia, and illustration credit is given as “S. Caldwell” (for whom I haven’t been able to turn up a first name…

  • Nelson Shanks' Four Justices

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    Noted portrait painter Nelson Shanks, who I have written about previously, has recently completed a life size group portrait of four female justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. The painting, which is titled Four Justices (no, not The Supremes — grin) will hang in the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. for three years before going…

  • Meindert Hobbema

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    Dutch landscape painter Meindert Hobbema was a student and apprentice of Jacob van Ruisdael, and initially painted very much in the style of the older master. There are few records and not much written about Hobbema. He apparently was not very successful in his own time. Records indicate that he worked as a wine gauger…

  • David Leffel

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    David A. Lefffel is highly regarded and influential contemporary painter of still life and figurative works. There is something about his still life paintings in particular that makes him one of my favorite contemporary artists. Leffel has an extraordinary sensitivity to edges, texture, color harmony and value relationships, that makes his still life subjects simultaneously…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer graphite drawing

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    Ancient Trees, Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Graphite on cream wove paper, 10×15″ (26x37cm) In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. In addition to a zoom, the museum’s page includes a download link from which you can download medium-resolution (1mb) and high-resolution (18mb) versions of the image. Also available on the Google Art…

  • Mike Yamada

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    Mike Yamada is a visual development artist at Dreamworks Animation, whose credits include Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Bee Movie and Monsters vs. Aliens, among others. Most of the work on his blog is from personal projects, or demos done for his classes at the Art Center College of Design. A number…