Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2015

  • Chris Turnham (update 2015)

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    Chris Turnham is a screenprint-maker and illustrator who works in film and television as well as publishing. His crisp, lively images of architecture, streets, people and plants always seem loose and free, despite their exacting draftsmanship and use of hard edges. Largely, I think, this is due to Turnham’s deft use of close color and…

  • Paul-César Helleu

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    Though he painted landscapes and still life, and worked in oil, French artist Paul-César Helleu was known primarily for his beautiful portraits of turn of the century society women, done primarily in pastel, chalk and drypoint etching. Helleu entered the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts at an early age, studying in the academic tradition under Jean-Léon…

  • Zezhou Chen

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    Zezhou Chen is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator working for the gaming industry. His subjects are usually of fantasy or science fiction themes. The latter includes a nicely retro-future piece that is part of a group project called “Retro“. His website includes galleries of his work for book covers, games and various personal projects.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Krøyer’s Luncheon

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    A luncheon. The artist, his wife and the writer Otto Benzon, Peder Severin Krøyer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen. Group portrait, self portrait, room interior or still life — Kroyer’s simple but beautifully painted domestic scene works brilliantly in…

  • Stepan Kolesnikoff (Kolesnikov)

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    I came across the work of Stephan Fedorovich Kolesnikoff (alternately spelled Kolesnikov or Kolesnykov) while poking through some Russian language blogs, and had a “Woah! Who is this?” reaction. After searching up a bit more of his work, Kolesnikoff immediately went on my list of favorite artists who work in gouache. Though he also did…

  • Yap Kun Rong

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    Yap Kun Rong is a concept artist and illustrator originally from Singapore and currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. His credits in the gaming industry include Metal Gear Rising, Wonderful 101, and Bayonetta 2. He has also worked in comics for companies like Avalon Studios and Radical Publishing. I particularly like his choice of…