Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • A Cavalcade of Santas

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    Our image of Santa Claus comes primarily from the interpretations of illustrators over time. Here are a few examples. Despite the fact hat Nast had given Santa his physical form and Reginald Marsh dressed him in the red suit with white cuffs, I think it’s J.C. Leyendecker to whom we owe our most complete contemporary…

  • A few thoughts on “AI Art”

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    I will begin as a curmudgeon and state that I think the term “artificial intelligence” is overly generous when applied to the current level of this technology, and would be better reserved for future systems that are more likely to fulfill the expectations created by the term “intelligence”. In an effort to neatly sidestep the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Autumn

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    Autumn, Alphonse Mucha; color lithograph, roughly 40 x 21 inches (103 x 54cm) Image sourced from here; direct link here; info here. This is one of the panels from Mucha’s first and perhaps most successful series of decorative panels, The Seasons, which he created in 1896. This and Summer are my favorites from the series.…

  • Eye Candy for today: Maximilian Liebenwein illustration

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    Walk of Mary across the mountains, Maximilian Liebenwein. Maximilian Liebenwein was an Austrian/German illustrator active during the “Golden Age” of illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I’m unsure what the medium is here, but it looks like watercolor and gouache to me. I sourced the image from here, larger version here. For…

  • Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban

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    Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban were Austrian born illustrators and stage scene designers who collaborated as well as working independently. In addition, Lefler was a painter and Urban an architect, and they were brothers-in-law. They were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I have not idea how to sort out who did…

  • Jon Juarez

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    Jon Juarez is a visual development artist, illustrator, cartoonist and screenwriter based in San Sebastian, Spain. He works in a line and color style with a high key and often high chroma palette.