Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2013

  • Dean Cornwell WWII advertising illustration study

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    Today is Veterans Day here in the U.S. A friend of mine — painter, comics artist and animation artist Mike Manley — has this wonderful study by the great American illustrator Dean Cornwell hanging in his house. The final was an illustration for the Fisher automotive division of General Motors, urging the public to buy…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Boldini's Dispatch-Bearer

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    The Dispatch-Bearer, Giovanni Boldini Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and download arrow for high-res image. Image is even higher resolution than the crops I’ve shown here. A fantastic painter. Sometimes I think this guy rivals Sargent and Zorn. See my previous post on Giovanni Boldini.

  • Alex Mathers

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    Alex Mathers is a Danish-born illustrator now living in London, whose clients include The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Sony, Google, Saatchi & Saatchi Penguin and others. He studied geography, and brings a love of that subject to his vector based illustrations, maps and info graphics. He has a style that is crisp and richly colored,…

  • Sargent's Alligators

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    In response to my recent post about Rembrandt’s elephants, there were suggestions that perhaps alligators were not getting their proper representation as subjects for great artists. In return, I give you John Singer Sargent’s beautiful watercolor of Muddy Alligators, and some related drawings. Original is in the Worcester Art Museum; slightly larger version on WikiPaintings.…

  • Brandon Kitkouski

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    Brandon Kitkouski is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Dallas. His credits in the gaming industry include Doom 4, Rage and Deadly Creatures. Aside from that, his website offers little bio information. His digital painting, particularly in his personal work, is wonderfully textural and atmospheric. www.bkstudio.com http://bkstudio.blogspot.com Concept Art World CG Hub

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tobias Stranover Parrots

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    Parrots and Fruit with Other Birds and a Squirrel, Tobias Stranover A not-so-still-life. On Google Art Project, also hi-res on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has an 18mb high-res image.