Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2014

  • Lynn Boggess

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    In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used “troweled on” as a metaphor to describe the heavy application of paint. In the case of West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess, however, “troweled on” literally applies to his painting method. Boggess works in a manner associated with painting…

  • Mr. Hublot and the sculptures of Stéphane Halleux

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    I’m usually not one to watch award shows; I would rather (quite literally) watch paint dry. However, in the case of the Academy Awards, I usually will take note the day after of mentions in the category of Best Animated Short Film. This year’s winner in that category, Mr. Hublot, a CGI animated short directed…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thayer’s Roses

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    Roses, Abbott Handerson Thayer On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing this piece in person; if you’re at the Smithsonian, it’s worth seeking out (not that there aren’t other treasures aplenty in the same collection.) According to The…

  • Eytan Zana

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    Eytan Zana is an illustrator and concept artist working in both the gaming and film industries. He has worked on titles like The Last Of Us and Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception. Beyond that, I know little, as his blog doesn’t give a great deal of background information. It does, however, have examples of his wonderfully…

  • Mykola Pymonenko

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    Born just outside of Kiev, 19th century artist Mykola Pymonenko spent most of his career portraying the land and people of his native Ukraine. He became a member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts, but also exhibited with the more progressive Society of South Russian Artists and the Peredvizhniki. (See my Lines and Colors…

  • Michal Dziekan

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    Michal Dziekan is an illustrator and character designer based in Warsaw, Poland, whose stylistic range reaches from acerbic cartoony exaggeration to surprisingly lyrical imagery. His website includes pages of illustrations from various projects, most of which offer crops that allow you to appreciate some of the wonderful details Dziekan incorporates into his illustrations. He also…