Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Netdiver

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    I hope today is a good day for you to get lost in a time-sink, because here’s another major one. Netdiver is a site that collects and displays links to websites that the author, Carole Guevin, aided by her techie co-founder Jean-François Simard, has selected as particularly appealing and well done. The overall emphasis of…

  • Peter Max

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    Peter Max rose to fame at a pop artist and poster artist associated with the mass media image of the 1960’s psychedelic art movement. Max took his influences from the underground psychedelic concert posters and album art of the time, and the graphically simplified echoes of that art pioneered by Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser,…

  • Cover Browser

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    Covers of comic books, pulp magazines, and for that matter, magazines and books of any kind, have one purpose — to make you pick that sucker up and run home with it in your sweaty hands after plunking down your hard earned dimes. Cover art, particularly from the lower part of the periodical pool, can…

  • Astrona: Space and Astronomical Art Journal

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    Artistic visions of “the heavens” have been with us throughout the history of art, but pictures of space and planetary bodies probably date from the late 1800’s when conjecture about flights to other spheres became the topic of popular literature. Since then artists have portrayed other worlds with varying intent and degrees of scientific accuracy,…

  • Dean Cornwell

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    Dean Cornwell, often referred to with the appellation “The Dean of Illustrators” tacked on, was a second generation inheritor of the Brandywine tradition of illustration, having studied with Harvey Dunn, a student of Howard Pyle and an eminent teacher in his own right. Cornwell carried the Brandywine traditions of bold figures, bright colors and dynamic…

  • Rian Hughes

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    Rian Hughes is a British comics artist, illustrator, graphic designer and type designer. As a comics artist he became known for his work on Dare,, an updated version of Dan Dare, written by Grant Morrison and serialized in Revolver; as well as Robo-Hunter and number of other features for 2000AD and other titles. At a…