Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Tools and Techniques

  • The Art Center (blog)

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    The Art Center is a blog devoted to, as the tagline says, “Sharing Ideas and Tips from Artist to Artist”. An offshoot of the Character Design blog, which is devoted largely to interviews with artists working in the film, gaming and illustration fields, The Art Center features tutorials, walk-throughs, how to videos and discussions of…

  • The Brilliant Line

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    Though the physical exhibition for which it was created is in the past (having ended in January of 2010), the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design has maintained online an interactive called The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver 1480-1650. The interactive features 8 Renaissance and Baroque engravings, drawn from…

  • Paintmap

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    Like The Arts Map, that I wrote about last spring, Paintmap is a location based mapping feature based on the Google Maps API. In the case of The Arts Map, the application allows artists and arts related institutions to locate themselves on a global map, with a virtual pin tied to a pop-up with more…

  • Van Gogh’s yellows turning brown

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    Much has been made of the advances over the centuries, and particularly in the last century or two, in paint chemistry, allowing artists to work with an ever-broadening array of pigments, and often providing much needed replacements for older, plant-based pigments that were fugitive over time. Not all advances in paint technology are for the…

  • Wikipedia Color Resources

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    There are lots of color resources on the web, for artists, designers and others, but an often overlooked one is Wikipedia, the venerable user-edited online encyclopedia. Whatever you may say about the reliability of the information on Wikipedia (or from Britannica, or any other single resource, for that matter), I rarely consider a source like…

  • Confident Color

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    This is one of those books for which the binding is key. Nita Leland’s Confident Color: An Artist’s Guide to Harmony, Contrast and Unity is published by venerable art instruction book publisher North Light Books. Like Leland’s previous book, The New Creative Artist (which I reviewed here) and Bert Dodson’s Keys to Drawing with Imagination…