Lines and Colors art blog

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  • Gareth Hinds

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    I have to admit that I’m becoming a little tired of movie CGI, particularly when used with motion capture to portray fake humans; so I haven’t bothered to see the Robert Zemeckis Hollywoodization of the classic Northern European epic poem Beowulf. Apparently millions of people who just fine with movies full of fake actors, probably…

  • Harry Anderson

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    Harry Anderson was an illustrator active in the mid-20th Century, particularly during a period when the influences of modernism, editorial photography and changes in printing and reproduction techniques were encouraging many illustrators to forge new paths. While illustrators like Al Parker were redefining the way representational imagery was incorporated with design elements in magazine illustration,…

  • Volkan Baga

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    I wasn’t particularly surprised to find that, in addition to his other training and education, German illustrator Volkan Baga spent some time as a studio assistant to Donato Giancola. I say that not because I saw overt similarities in the work, but because of the presence of traditional old-school European painting techniques evident in the…

  • Julian Beever (update)

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    Julian Beever is perhaps the best known “pavement painter”. He uses colored chalk to create complex drawings on sidewalks in public spaces. Like those of his contemporary Kurt Wenner, these sometimes are giant reproductions of old master paintings. The most interesting, though, take the form of large scale anamorphoses, images distorted in such a way…

  • Jody Hewgill

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    Canadian illustrator Jody Hegwell’s illustrations seem almost constructed rather than simply painted, with subtle granular textures applied to curved sheets of delicately modeled color, which in turn are set into compositions in which the positive and negative spaces interlock like pieces of a puzzle, all set on a bedrock of solid cubist geometry. Her forceful…

  • Michael Naples

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    Here is an interesting study in contrasts within the work of an artist that, to my eye, seems to be reaping the rewards of taking on the practice of daily painting, in terms of growth as an artist and noticeable increase in skill and confidence. Michael Naples has been doing portraits in graphite for ten…