Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • William Stout: Hallucinations

    —

    by

    cparker
    in , ,

    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have long been an admirer of the work of William Stout. Stout is well know as a paleontological artist, film concept designer, illustrator and comics artist. His style ranges as widely as his areas of endeavor, but I take particular pleasure in his ink…

  • Jamie Burton

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Indiana born, Seattle based illustrator, painter, comic book artist and 3D gaming environmental artist Jamie Burton studied at the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, and then at the Joe Kubert School of Art in New Jersey, where he prepared for subsequent work as a comic book inker for DC Comics. Burton transitioned into…

  • Walter Gotschke

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Walter Gotschke is one of the names intimately linked with the early history of automotive art, a subset of illustration that followed the rise of the importance of automobiles themselves in the 20th Century. Gotschke was born in the Czech Republic, but spent much of his career in Germany while it was under nazi rule…

  • Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

    —

    by

    cparker
    in

    Apparently movie directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are both avid collectors of the work of the great American illustrator Norman Rockwell. Unlike those of us who might indulge in a fondness for Rockwell by collecting old Saturday Evening Post covers, Lucas and Spielberg can afford to collect Rockwell’s originals, and have done so extensively.…

  • Machinarium

    —

    by

    cparker
    in , ,

    Machinarium is a point-and-click adventure game with a unique look; the product of hand drawn environments and characters by artists from Amanita Design. The game, as far as I understand it, involves moving a small robot through a series of environments in search of something. The images have a wonderful quality of texture, imaginative design…

  • Terence Tenison Cuneo

    —

    by

    cparker
    in ,

    Like many young boys, I developed a fascination with trains when I quite young, and never completely lost it as an adult. I still find trains and train travel fascinating and possessed of their own aesthetic; huge gleaming machines, spouting grease and sparks, barreling through the night on slivery rails, carrying freight, passengers and the…