Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Todd Bonita

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    Todd Bonita is a New Hampshire based painter who studied at the Art Institute of Boston, and here in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has worked as a muralist, designer, sculptor, painter and illustrator, and has over 30 books to his credit. As an oil painter, Bonita paints a variety…

  • Dan Santat

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    Dan Santat is a California based illustrator and children’s book writer. His clients include The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, The Village Voice, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster and many others. Santat is also the creator of the Disney Channel animated series, The Replacements. Santat’s style ranges from detailed to quite spare, but always seems to…

  • Winslow Homer: Illustrating America

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    Those in the art establishment who like to rewrite art history, or simply ignore it, in the defense of their position that illustration is somehow “not art”, conveniently ignore the number of well known artists who also happened to be illustrators. A case in point is Winslow Homer, widely regarded to be one of the…

  • Covered (Robert Goodin)

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    Here’s an amusing notion. Robert Goodin, an illustrator and comics artist, has established a blog called Covered, the theme of which is to allow contemporary artists and illustrators to display their take on classic comic book covers; their covers of covers, if you will. The result is a delightful amalgam of styles and approaches, as…

  • Sterling Clinton Hundley: emergent

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    Sterling Hundley is a Virginia based painter and illustrator whose award winning illustrations were the subject of a previous Lines and Colors post in 2007. Hundley has embarked on a new direction as a gallery artist, the initial debut of which will be a solo show at Ghostprint Gallery in Richmond from September 4th to…

  • Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon

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    Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon, collectively known as Teetering Bulb, are a an illustrator team living in Brooklyn. Their clients include Realms of Fantasy, Dover Publishing, Wizards of the Coast, Honest Tea and Tor.com. They are also creators of webcomics; and Tor.com, home of Tor publishing (se my post on Tor.com) is hosting their short…