Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Chris Appelhans (update)

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    Chris Appelhans, who I profiled back in 2006, has added some new images to his site, Froghat Studios, along with a fun short Superman animation. The latter is more of a slide show than an actual animation, but it works quite well, timed to music and with nice touches (I love the scene of Superman…

  • Chris Rahn

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    I love the line in Christopher Rahn’s website bio that goes: “As the son of a hippie and a photographer, I was encouraged to pursue what I loved and see how far I could take it… look what happened.” Look what happened indeed. Rahn is an illustrator with an emphasis on the fantastic and otherworldly,…

  • Suzanne Duranceu

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    Suzanne Duranceu is a Canadian illustrator whose paintings evidence a strong sense of textural detail and a delicate refinement that give them a feeling of presence and gravity. In other hands images like her version of works by Holbein or Gainsborough as represented by cats might lapse into kitsch, but she handles it with such…

  • Propaganda Posters

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    It’s commonly thought that “propaganda”, as a technique of spreading misinformation, or slanted opinions, for the purpose of manipulating opinions, has been utilized primarily by oppressive regimes like Imperial and Nazi Germany in the early part of the 20th Century or the Soviet Union or Communist China in the latter part. That in itself is…

  • Bill Carman

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    Bill Carman has an approach that combines stylish exaggeration, line, painted rendering, texture, design and a variety of applications of color to achieve an entertaining and eye-catching range of illustrations, paintings and drawings. Carman studied at De Anze College and Brigham Young University and is currently a professor of illustration and drawing at Boise State…

  • Erin Kelso

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    When I discovered Erin Kelso’s work on conceptart.org, I did my usual dig to see what else I could find about the artist, who was listed only as “bluefooted”. I eventually found out that she also has a presence on deviantART, where she is also listed only as “bluefooted”, but no actual website or blog.…