Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2013

  • Ellen Cooper

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    Ellen Cooper is a contemporary American portrait artist whose refined painting style and approach to her subjects has garnered her numerous awards and prominent mention in several publications. She studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and pursued additional study under contemporary portrait masters Burton Silverman and Daniel Greene. Cooper’s website portfolio is…

  • Boulet's childhood memory

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    French comics artist Boulet (Gilles Roussel) has posted a short comic story that is evocative of one of my favorite types of childhood memories: falling asleep in the back of a car on the way home from somewhere. Titled Our Toyota Was Fantastic, the comic is animated and, as is usually the case with Boulet,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour asters and fruit

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    Asters and Fruit on a Table, Henri Fantin-Latour Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow. I find it fascinating that Fantin-Latour has de-emphasized the glass vase — likely a star part of the composition in the hands of many other artists — and emphasized instead the textural surface of both the flowers…

  • Jose Emroca Flores (update)

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    Since I previously featured illustrator and concept artist Jose Emroca Flores, he has continued to update his website and blog with new material. He blog features his professional work, and his website features more of his personal work, which I particularly enjoy for its simultaneously dark and whimsical character. Flores also has a store on…

  • Thomas Sully

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    Thomas Sully was an American painter born in England. His family moved the the U.S. in 1792, when he was 9. He studied briefly with Gilbert Stuart, and traveled to London for nine months to study with American expatriate painter Benjamin West. Sully spent most of his career in Philadelphia. He painted such notable figures…

  • Scott Wills

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    Scott Wills is a visual development and production artist specializing in animation backgrounds. His blog, CandyCaneLand, includes examples of his work from both television and feature animation productions, including Samurai Jack, Ren & Stimpy, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Flushed Away, Sinbad, Monsters vs. Aliens and more. Many of his backgrounds are painted in acrylic. Some…