Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2015

  • Viktor Vasnetsov

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    Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov was a Russian painter who painted scenes of Russian folklore as well as history painting, genre painting, religious subjects and landscape. Though I don’t think his folklore paintings were meant to be reproduced as illustrations, they have a similar narrative quality. His flights of fantasy are grounded in a tactile realism that…

  • James Paick (update)

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    James Paick is a concept and visual development artist who I first featured back in 2007. Paick is the founder of Scribble Pad Studios, whose clients include Riot Games, Naughty Dog, EA, Sony, Respawn, Epic Games, Activision, NC Soft, and Wizards of the Coast. Paick excels at suggesting detail and texture in environments of monumental…

  • Ottorino De Lucchi

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    Italian artist Ottorino De Lucchi works with watercolor in a technique he calls “watercolor drybrush”. This is not the typical use of that term, meaning passages with a brush on which only a small amount of paint is present — normally used to create textural strokes. Instead, he refers to a specific technique of applying…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Egyptian encaustic portrait

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    Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, unknown artist In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use zoom or download arrows under the image for high-res version. This two thousand year old painting on wood panel, in the hot wax process of encaustic, highlights the characteristics of that medium to not yellow or change chemically with age. The…

  • Federico del Campo

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    Federico del Campo was a Peruvian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century who was noted for his large scale scenes of Venice. He studied in Spain at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, and traveled and painted in Italy and France. He settled in Venice for a time, where…

  • Grahame Baker Smith

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    UK illustrator Grahame Baker Smith is known for his interpretation of classics like Pinocchio and Robin Hood, as well as contemporary works like Leon and the Place Between and FArTHER. His work for the latter garnered him the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2011 (a British medal awarded each year for “distinguished illustration in a book…