Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • The Lost Thing animated short

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    The Lost Thing is a wonderful children’s book by Australian artist Shaun Tan, with an unusual story and a unique look. With the help of co-director Andrew Ruhemann and a small production team, Tan has been working for several years to bring the book to life as a 15 minute animated short. It was finally…

  • Al Williamson Archives

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    It’s a fairly common practice among comics artists to publish “sketchbooks”, sometimes literally that, sometimes collections of more finished drawings. In them we can often see the artist at play, doing preliminary sketches for art from stories with which we’re familiar, indulging in imaginative flights of fancy, doodling, practicing and learning. Rarely do we get…

  • Blow Up: Hanuka, Shimizu, Weber

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    Blow Up: Hanuka, Shimizu, Weber is an exhibit at the Society of Illustrators in NY that features three artists I’ve profiled previously, Tomer Hanuka, Yuko Shimizu and Sam Weber. The organizers make a point of the disparate backgrounds and visual approaches of the three artists. Hanuka’s richly colored comics illustrations, Shimizu’s admixture of Yukio-e and…

  • Mark Summers (update)

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    I have long been fascinated by pen and ink drawing, and its mirror world cousin, scratchboard. Both are demanding mediums, but scratchboard is additionally difficult in that the unfamiliarity of working by subtraction rather than addition takes some practice, as well a mental shift (in common with some printmaking techniques); but the rewards are a…

  • Christopher Denise

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    Christopher Denise is a visual development artist who has worked with companies like Fox/Blue Sky Studios and Treanor Brothers Animation. He is also a children’s book illustrator whose clients include Candlewick Press, Penguin, Harcourt Brace McMillan and McGraw Hill. His website portfolio includes sections for character design, props design, environments and more. The work on…

  • James C. Christensen

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    James Christensen’s paintings range from straightforward portraits to fantasy tinged depictions of angels and Renaissance ladies to phantasmic tableaux of fantasy subjects that look as though the books in a children’s library had been run through a fan and reassembled by a cross-eyed surrealist. Christensen seems to swim in a rich sea of influences, from…