Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Pierre-Auguste Cot

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    Pierre-Auguste Cot is one of those painters known primarily by one popular image, in this case The Storm, above, a commissioned image that Cot exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1880. The painting has become part of pop high-culture (not quite pop culture) and has often been visually referenced or parodied, as in this portrait…

  • Jamie Caliri (update)

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    Though not the mini-masterpiece of its predecessor, the latest animated closing film credit from director Jamie Caliri is still a nifty piece of paper cut-out animation. The closing credits for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa can be viewed on a terrific site called Forget the film, watch the titles, that I’ve written about before here and…

  • John F. Carlson

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    I woke up to an uncharacteristic November snow here in Philadelphia, and my mind jumped to the beautiful woodland snow scenes of John Carlson. Born in Sweden, John Fabian Carlson moved to the U.S. with his family at the age of nine. He studied art in the evenings and worked as a lithographer during the…

  • Ronald Kurniawan

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    Ronald Kurniawan is a Los Angeles based illustrator who graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His highly stylized imagery combines animals and natural forms with geometric constructs, typographic elements, mechanical devices, odd characters and cultural ephemera into marvelous, collage-like visual smorgasbords. His characters careen, gambol and fly through unlikely environments, alternately…

  • Urban Sketchers

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    I just discovered the Urban Sketchers blog a couple of weeks ago, and it immediately became one of my favorites. I enjoy location sketches done in an urban environment, particularly travel sketches, and the blog has much of that feeling, even though the contributors are often sketching in their home city. I came across Urban…

  • Petar Meseldžija

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    Petar Meseldžija is a Serbian artist who started in comics, publishing a comic called Krampi in the comic magazine Stripoteka and working on a short licensed Tarzan series. He then went on to study painting at the Art Academy in Novi Sad and began to take on illustration work, eventually abandoning comics for illustration and…