Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Postcard from Provence
    (Julian Merrow-Smith)

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    Back in 2005 I found myself writing an arts oriented blog; partly because I enjoyed writing it, and partly because in the process I was discovering terrific artists I wouldn’t have sought out or encountered otherwise. One of them was Duane Keiser, who had originated the “painting a day” blog concept; painting daily postcard-size paintings,…

  • David Cox

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    David Cox is best known as a superb watercolorist during what was considered the “Golden Age” of watercolor (or watercolour, if you prefer the English spelling); though he also produced many drawings, and later in his career took up oil painting in addition to watercolor. Cox was the son of a blacksmith, and would have…

  • Björn Hurri

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    Björn Hurri is an artist who, according to the sparse biographical information on his web site, will “soon live in the UK” and work for the gaming company Creative Assembly. Hurri also does freelance illustration, and indulges in imaginative exercises for his own amusement; one of which is his series of steampunk versions of Star…

  • Pose Maniacs (update)

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    Pose Maniacs, which I wrote about in 2007, is a Japanese web site that features 3D models of human figures, rendered with superficial musculature, for sketching and drawing reference. A high percentage of them are in an interface that allows you to turn them 360° on their vertical axis for a complete rotation of point…

  • Lucong (Cong Hua Lu)

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    Born in Shanghai, China during the “Cultural Revolution” (a time in China that could more accurately be called the “Cultural Wasteland”), Lucong (Cong Hua Lu) moved with his family to the American midwest at the age of 11. [Correction, he grew up in the period just after the Cultural Revolution, see this post’s comments.] He…

  • Evelien Lohbeck

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    Noteboek, an animation by Evelien Lohbeck that recently won the prize for best NOFF-film 2008 a the Netherlands Film Festival, is one of the cleverest and most amusing animations I’ve seen in a while. Taking off from the notion of a sketchbook in which a computer keyboard and screen have been drawn, it goes on…