Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • William Stout: Prehistoric Life Murals

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    We live in a wonderfully weird world, in which life has taken forms more spectacularly bizarre and varied than the imaginings of any fantasy or concept artist (which, given the talents of many of those amazing artists, is saying something). Nature has provided us with a record of some of the wildest experiments of the…

  • Richard Amsel

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    Well known for his film posters in the 1970’s and 80’s, illustrator Richard Amsel started his career early when he won a contest to illustrate the poster for Barbara Streisand’s Hello Dolly while he was still a student at the Philadelphia College of Art (now The University of the Arts) here in Philadelphia. He soon…

  • MicroVisions 4

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    MicroVisions is an auction, now in its fourth year, in support of the Society of Illustrators scholarship fund. The auction is organized by Irene Gallo, the well known art director at Tor Books and author of the excellent blog, The Art Department, along with illustrator Dan Dos Santos (see my posts on Irene Gallo, Tor…

  • Mark Covell

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    Mark Covell is a concept artist, storyboard artist and character designer as well as an illustrator. His illustration clients include Playboy Magazine, Universal Studios, Mercer mayer, Harper Festival, Simon and Schuster, and Lillyfield Press. His web site has sections devoted to illustration and storyboards as well as concept art, characters and environments. Covell has done…

  • Eyvind Earle (update)

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    I first wrote about illustrator, animation art director and painter Eyvind Earle back in 2006. Since 2007, I’ve been waiting for a new site promised to be “Coming soon April 2008” at eyvindearle.com to materialize; but as the promise is unchanged as we approach April of 2009, that looks unlikely. Fortunately, in the meantime, some…

  • Grandma’s Graphics

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    For lovers of all kinds of art, the internet just keeps getting better and better. Grandma’s Graphics is a little treat that popped up recently with some vintage public domain illustration. Though some of the images aren’t of as high reproduction quality as one might like, it’s still worth a look, even if it’s just…