Author: cparker
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Laura Barnard
UK based illustrator Laura Barnard specializes in cityscapes and architectural subjects, “the more complicated they are the better”. She works in both traditional and digital media, mixing them at times. Her fine line approach works well in her portrayal of complex jumbles of buildings, latticed with detail and texture. She has an informal line, allowing…
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Van Gogh’s self-portraits
For an artist so prolific, from whom over 850 paintings and 1,200 drawings have survived, it’s stunning to realize that Vincent van Gogh’s active career spanned only a single decade, from his decision to pursue art at age 27 in 1880, to his untimely death in 1890. During that time he produced over 30 self…
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The Banishment of Beauty, Scott Burdick
Those who have been reading Lines and Colors over time may have noticed that despite the deliberate crossing of genres, and the mixture of different aspects of visual art, there is a common thread of art that takes its basic structure from the traditions of representational art, You may also know that I have often…
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Antipodean Fantasy on BibliOdyssey
The Golden Age of Illustration, roughly from the last quarter of the 19th Century to the early decades of the 20th, is most often associated with artists from the U.S. and Europe; but terrific illustrators were also working on the other side of the Earth, in Australia and New Zealand. BibliOdyssey, that ever fascinating and…
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Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers
It has been frequently pointed out that there is a close relationship between comics (or “graphic stories”), and film; in that both are visual storytelling mediums. The two arts share many of the same fundamental processes in constructing a visual story: scene composition, visual continuity, establishing shots, close ups, downshots, upshots, and so on; they…