Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Katherine Tyrrell

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    There is a fascinatingly fuzzy line, if you’ll excuse the expression, between “drawing” and “painting” when working with mediums like pastel and colored pencil. Both can obviously be used as drawing media, and can also be applied to renderings that have many of the characteristics of paintings. UK artist Katherine Tyrrell calls them “dry media”…

  • Michael Koelsch

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    My previous post about Art Nouveau posters reminded me that there was another era of poster design with very different intent and aesthetics. Contemporary California illustrator Michael Koelsch has an affinity for the wonderful pulp illustrations and B-movie posters from the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. He affectionately applies his study of those styles to modern…

  • Art of the Poster 1880-1918

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    The era around the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century was the high water mark for the art of poster design. Technological innovations at the time allowed the use of mass-produced zinc plates instead of awkward and expensive lithographic stones to reproduce multiple images, and the artists could take…

  • Antonio Javier Caparo

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    Antonio Caparo is a Cuban born illustrator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Caparo studied graphic design at the High Institute of Design in Havana and devoted much of his early career to design, but gradually sifted his focus to illustration. He has a muscular, energetic style that uses texture and tonal contrast to…

  • Shino Arihara

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    Shino Arihara’s often deceptively simple illustrations are usually in service of a concept, illustrating not only a particular article or story, but the underlying idea. However, as is often the case for me when viewing the work of illustrators, I find some of her most interesting work is among her personal pieces, unrestrained by the…

  • Tor Books

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    Tor Books is a publishing house that specializes in science fiction and fantasy titles. I should probably say outstanding science fiction and fantasy titles; Tor has won the Locus Magazine poll for best science fiction publisher every year for the last 20 years. Tor also publishes some of the very best science fiction and fantasy…