Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Sara Tyson

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    Canadian illustrator and designer Sara Tyson makes the commonplace monumental, abstracting the forms of her subjects into multi-planed geometric solids and rendering them with colors and textures that give them the weight of planets. She appears to take her influences form 20th century modernism, particularly Picasso’s brand of cubism, Greek sculpture and decorative arts, and…

  • Ronald Searle

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    Ronald Searle, the well known English cartoonist and satirist, started drawing cartoons professionally for the Cambridge Daily News at the age of fifteen. He served in WW II as an architectural draftsman and, while stationed in Singapore, was taken prisoner of war when that city was surrendered to the Japanese. Despite the horrific conditions of…

  • Fred Gambino

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    For years Fred Gmbino’s refined, confidently rendered and highly accomplished paintings have been gracing the covers of science fiction and fantasy books, as well as serving the needs of clients like National Geographic, Scientific American, Der Speigel, Lego, Mattel and The US Postal Service. Over that time his approach has changed, from oil to acrylic…

  • Spectrum 14

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    There are a number of illustration annuals, showcasing the editors’ choices for notable contemporary illustration. I look forward to several of them, The Society of Illustrator’s Annual, for example, but for many years (14 to be exact) my favorite illustration annual has been Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and…

  • Jack Unruh

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    Interestingly, Kansas illustrator Jack Unruh divides his online portfolio into two enigmatically defined sections, What is real and What is not real. Presumably, the latter has more conceptual and imagination based illustrations, although in both you will find his wonderfully drawn portrait/caricatures of well known figures, images of fish, bears and other wildlife, and scenes…

  • BibliOdyssey (the book)

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    Ephemera is defined as printed or written material that isn’t intended to be preserved. Magazines and newspapers, for example, are meant to be transitory, disposed of once read (the pile of National Geographics in your grandfather’s attic notwithstanding.) Even many books are meant to be ephemeral; computer instruction manuals, for example, are out of date…