Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Eye Candy for Today: Anton Pieck’s The Roof Painter

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    The Roof Painter, Anton Pieck 20th century Dutch illustrator, printmaker and gallery artist Anton Pieck was noted for his charming winter scenes. Here, he shows an artist, perhaps meant to be a representation of Pieck himself, finding a view of the town that requires him to climb to a roof peak. A boy brings him…

  • Adrian Tomine

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    Originally from California, Adrian Tomine is an illustrator and cartoonist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Tomine has taken to his adopted city so well that he has become a reader favorite contributor to the New Yorker. His New Yorker covers, as well as many of his other illustrations and drawings, have that wonderful combination…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eyvind Earle trees

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    I don’t know the title or the size of this serigraph by ex illustrator and former Disney background artist turned gallery artist Eyvind Earle. I just know it’s wonderful. I love the exaggerated atmospheric perspective, the trademark stylization of the trees, the splashes of light across the trees and shrubs and the perspective imparted by…

  • Christina Chung

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    Christina Chung is a Brooklyn based illustrator who describes her nationality as Taiwanese-Hongkonger-American. Her clients include The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Science Magazine, NPR, Abrams Books, Penguin Random House, and Lucasfilm, among others. Her illustrations, often in a line and fill approach, use restrained palettes and carefully controlled value…

  • Holly Carden

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    I have to say that I just love cutaway illustrations, those wonderful glimpses of the workings of cars, aircraft, ships, machines, buildings and other complex objects in which the artist has granted the viewer the gift of x-ray vision. Nashville based freelance illustrator Holly Carden creates some particularly nice cutaways of buildings, both real and…

  • R. Kikuo Johnson

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    Originally from Hawaii, R. Kikuo Johnson is an illustrator and comics artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His illustration clients include Apple, Random House, Penguin Books, Marvel Comics, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and the New York times, among others. Johnson maybe best known for his wonderful covers for The New Yorker.…