Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Boris Artzybasheff

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    Illustrator Boris Artzybasheff was born in the Ukraine, emigrated to the the U.S. and was active during the mid 20th Century. “Unique” may be a mild word to describe Artzybasheff’s approach to illustration. maybe if I add adjectives like “idiosyncratic”, “eccentric”, “bizarre” and “off the wall”, I can get a little closer; oh yes, and…

  • Tang Wei Min

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    I’ve long been fascinated with the cross-pollination of ideas and styles between the artistic traditions of Asia and Europe. Even though they are technically on the same continent they were effectively separate worlds for much of the time their artistic methods and traditions were developing. Now, of course, the world is melting together, connected by…

  • Tim Warnock (update)

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    Matte paintings are paintings that produce the illusion of a background or part of a background in film. They can also form part of a foreground. Matte paintings are almost as old as movies themselves, and were originally painted on glass, and positioned in front of, and/or behind the actors (or stop motion creatures), creating…

  • Draw yourself as a teen

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    Here’s a great idea, started as a simple notion by webcomics artist and blogger Dave Valeza, and now snowballed into something of an internet meme. The suggestion was simple: “challenge: draw yourself as a teen“, supplemented with “if you are still a teen, draw your future post-teen self”. Word has gotten around, as people have…

  • CRW Nevinson

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    Though most of the horrors you’ll see in the art on these pages are imaginary, like movie monsters and fantasy creatures, some horrors are quite real, and we occasionally need to stop an remind ourselves of them. For those in other parts of the world, I’ll mention that today is Memorial Day here in the…

  • Alexis America

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    As an antidote to yesterday’s scary monsters, I take you this morning to the tranquil beauty of a water garden, alight with the brilliance of water lilly blossoms, in botanical watercolor paintings by Alexis America. America has a series of paintings of water lillies, lotus and related water plants, their bright blooms, colorful stalks and…