Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter

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    Color. What other factor in art is so simultaneously fascinating and frustrating for artists? Numerous books have been written on the subject; some are less than worthwhile, some are good, some are excellent, and a few have become so relied on that over time they have become standards. Each takes a certain approach to the…

  • Rockwell’s Four Freedoms

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    Most Americans associate Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting of the formal family meal, shown above, top, with today’s holiday of Thanksgiving, and its traditional signature main course of roast turkey. The painting, however, was painted with a different intention (even though the model for the turkey was actually the turkey from his own family Thanksgiving dinner).…

  • Past trains of the future

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    I just love illustrator’s visions of future transportation from the early to mid 20th Century. Popular Science has a 10 image gallery of some wonderful trains that I want to ride. (Plus I’m still waiting for the gyrocopter in every garage and my personal jetpack.) Isn’t it the future yet?

  • Moebius art on Tumblr

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    Jean Giraud, more commonly known as Moebius, and who also signs some work as “GIR”, is a French comics artist and illustrator, very well known in Europe, less so here in the U.S. Moebius is my favorite comics artist, and if you think of him as an illustrator, one of my favorites in that category…

  • The Art of Currency

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    As the US continues to re-issue its paper currency in new designs that are devoid of visual interest, removing most of what was good about the old engravings and making our dead presidents even deader, other nations around the world indulge in beautiful, colorful designs on their currency. In addition, paper money from many countries…

  • Edward Gorey Book Covers

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    I found when I wrote a post on Edward Gorey last year that though there are scattered sources for his illustrations on the web, there is little in the way of a dedicated repositiory of his work. This has in some degree been addressed courtesy of a wonderful Flicker set by Marci and Deth of…