Author: cparker
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Edvard Munch
Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch is another of those artists, like Whistler or even Hokusai, whose oeuvre is condensed to a single image in the minds of most people, in this case his iconic image The Scream. There are actually several versions of The Scream, including both paintings and prints, more than one of which have…
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Melissa B. Tubbs
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have a particular fondness for pen and ink drawing; a medium with a long history and many great practitioners but one that is assigned little glamour in this day of inexpensive color reproduction and computer imagery. Melissa B. Tubbs is an Alabama based artist…
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Illo. 2
Illo is a terrific, too-infrequently appearing magazine about contemporary illustration, published by Daniel Zimmer. Zimmer also publishes Illustration magazine, which focuses on classic illustration. For some bockground on both magazines, see my post from 2007 on Illustration Magazine and Illo. After an all-too-long hiatus, Illo is back with a second issue, even stronger than the…
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Matt Gaser (update)
When I first wrote about Matt Gaser back in 2007, I remember being impressed, but when I recently revisited his site I was knocked out. Gaser is a concept artist and art director for the film industry, though his previous work includes art for gaming companies. He has worked for companies like Electronic Arts and…
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Robert MacKenzie
Robert MacKenzie is a California born artist currently living in New York City and working for Blue SKy Studios, the film and animation development studio whose credits include the Ice Age movies, Horton Hears a Who and Robots. On his blog MacKenzie occasionally posts about his work with Blue Sky, but more often chronicles his…
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Sadie J. Valeri
Value, the quality of light or dark in a tone or color, is one of the most undervalued, misunderstood and vitally important aspects of painting. Sadie J. Valeri is a contemporary realist painter who has followed a fascination with value into a series of challenging still life subjects in which wax paper, a humble household…