Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Philip Burke

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    Philip Burke is another of those artists whose images are more commonly known than his name. Whether you’ve heard of Burke or not, you’ve probably seen his his wildly exaggerated portraits of rock stars, splashed with lurid colors and jumping out at you from the pages of popular magazines with expressionistic abandon. His work has…

  • Robert McCall

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    In some ways Robert McCall is an inheritor of the mantle of pioneering space artist Chesley Bonestell, continuing to document the space program and visually forecast its future, as well as the future of mankind as we step off our little blue island into the vast sea of space. McCall first gained notice for his…

  • Pen Drawing by Charles Maginnis on Project Gutenberg

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    I love pen and ink drawing. It has a visual charm and character unlike any other medium. I assume that I came by my affection for it from realizing as a teenager that pen and ink drawing was the basis for comic books and cartoons, but I was also exposed at a pretty early age…

  • Martin Wittfooth

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    Martin Wittfooth’s paintings draw on both industrial and natural elements, often displaying an intersection and clash of those worlds. Rusting hulks of buses (school, public and VW) sink into the ground in barren landscapes, and occasionally sprout new growth; disarmingly fish-eyed cats swim in drainage channels with bobbing warheads while silver zeppelins glide over concrete…

  • R.J. Matson

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    Whenever the topic of political cartoonists comes up, the question of political bias raises its smirking little head and I get comments about “How could you feature this flaming liberal terrorist sympathizer?” or “How could you showcase such a right wing fascist nut case?”. I’ll start out by saying that RJ Matson is unabashedly liberal,…

  • Timothy Bush

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    Timothy Brush is a children’s book illustrator originally from Pennsylvania and, after living in Illinois, Ohio and Texas as well as Vienna, Rome and the Greek Islands, is now settled in New York City. Bush studied literature in college and is self-taught as an artist. He points out (jokingly, I hope) that he is “completely…