Category: Illustration
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Flesk Publications (update)
Flesk Publications is a small publisher specializing in art books, and particularly in titles that would be of interest to many lines and colors readers. I first wrote about Flesk two years ago as one of my first posts for lines and colors. At the time the focus of Flesk’s publishing efforts was on two…
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Armel Gaulme
Armel Gaulme is a French illustrator and graphic designer living in Paris. The bio on his site is very brief, but emphasizes that his love for painting and illustration, and the study of artists whose work he admires, has carried him farther than his formal academic training, though he continues to pursue courses at the…
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Shaun Tan (update)
When I first wrote about Australian illustrator and writer Shaun Tan back in March, it looked as though his site was on a server with limited bandwidth, which visits from lines and colors readers quickly overloaded. This unfortunately rendered his site inaccessible for several days, if not weeks, so many of you didn’t get to…
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D.B. Johnson
Within the hyper-kenitic, urgently frantic and tightly wound mechanism of modern culture, a culture that that does its best to devalue anything that is not shiny, new, expensive and fast, it’s easy to overlook or forget the quiet power of one of America’s great writer/philsophers, Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau’s essay on Civil Disobedience, and his…
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Vincent Dutrait
French illustrator Vincent Dutrait is well known in France and Asia, particularly in fantasy and role playing gaming circles, but not very familiar here in the U.S. Dutrait was born in Provence and now lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. He cites inspiration from great American illustrators of the Brandywine school like Howard Pyle…
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A Little Bit of Leyendecker Greatness
Wow. Every once in a while, I get something in my electronic mail box that’s like Christmas in July (well, August, anyway), and what a treat this is! (If you’re short on time, skip the rest of my palaver, go to this page right now and click on the images to see the large versions!)…