Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2016

  • Tom Lovell (update)

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    Tom Lovell was a superb American illustrator who was active through much of the 20th century. His style ranged from straightforward, classically delineated realism to dramatically composed pulp magazine action to the more graphically designed illustrations often associated with cutting edge mid-century styles. Lovell was particularly influenced by his friend and fellow illustrator Harry Anderson,…

  • Edward Harrison Compton

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    Born in Germany to English parents, Edward Harrison Compton was a landscape painter and illustrator active in the early 20th century. Compton began his training under the tutelage of his father, landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton, and went on to study in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. His desire to follow…

  • Eliza Ivanova

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    Eliza Ivanova is an animator and illustrator based in San Francisco and currently working with Pixar Animation Studios. Her feature film credits include The Good Dinosaur, Inside Out, Monsters University and Brave, as well as short films Toy Story of Terror and The Dam Keeper. Her website consists primarily of personal sketches, many in Moleskine…

  • High resolution images of Vermeer’s paintings

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    Johannes Vermeer was either a remarkable 17th century Dutch painter or an enchanted sorcerer of light from beyond time and space — sometimes it’s hard to tell — but I find his work particularly entrancing among all painters. His known existing oeuvre consists of only 36 paintings, each fascinating in their own way. I have…