Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • ColorJack

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    Like many of the online interactive color visualization and color picking utilities, ColorJack offers multiple interfaces with different options and capabilities. The most interesting of these, and most popular of the ColorJack options, is their Color Sphere, or Color Theory Visualizer (image above, top). More than simply a color picker, this displays the secondary, tertiary…

  • Marc Gabbana (update)

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    Since I last wrote about illustrator and concept artist Marc Gabbana back in 2005, his website has been revised and expanded with many more of his wonderful concept illustrations for films like Matrix Reloaded, Martix Revolutions, Star Wars Episode I and II, Monsterhouse, War of the Worlds, Beowulf, and the recent Disney production of Dicken’s…

  • Rembrandt’s Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul

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    Rembrandt created one of the most extraordinary visual autobiographies in the history of art in the form of over 80 self portraits in paintings, drawings and etchings. At times he used himself as a model for a historical or Biblical subject, in this case as the Apostle Paul, seen with the characteristic manuscript and sword…

  • Danny van Ryswyk

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    Danny van Ryswyk is an artist from the Netherlands. When I originally wrote this post he was painting high-chroma, detailed still life subjects using the techniques of the Dutch masters, painting on mahogany wood panels. In an interesting turn of artistic direction, he is now working in monochromatic digital media in the vein of pop…

  • Grzegorz Wróbel

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    Grzegorz Wróbel is an architectural designer from Poland. He paints street scenes and, as you might expect, architectural subjects, in beautiful crisp watercolor paintings. He evidently developed a drawing and watercolor style for the purpose of architectural presentation, but also engages in watercolor painting of existing scenes, either for his own satisfaction or as gallery…

  • Sci-fi illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki

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    Let us celebrate the wonderful cheesiness and eye-popping kid-allowance-bait futurism of these 1960’s and 70’s magazine and plastic model kit box illustrations by Japanese illustrator Shigeru Komatsuzaki. Giant destroyer robots! Undersea super tunnel! Space Train! Thunderbirds! And, of course “Frog car boat”! Not only has the Pink Tentacle blog made these marvels available for your…