Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Adam Rex

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    Adam Rex is an illustrator living here in Philadelphia who does fantasy themed and children’s book illustration for clients like Harcourt, Penguin, Knopf and a number of periodicals. Rex received the the Jack Gaugan Award for Best Emerging Artist, named for the noted Science Fiction artist, in 2005. He has also done a number of…

  • Al Parker

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    As the Golden Age of Illustration waned in the middle of the 20th Century, and color photography became the dominant force in magazines and newspapers, illustration itself, along with the rest of the art world, went through some major shifts. One of the pioneers of this changing landscape was Al Parker, an American illustrator and…

  • Tommy Lee Edwards

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    Tommy Lee Edwards is an illustrator, comics artist and visual development artist who employs a delightful mixture of styles and approaches in the service of his wide mix of projects. His clients include gaming companies, the major comics houses, book publishers and film industry giants like Dreamworks and Lucasfilm in addition to commercial entities like…

  • Arthur Getz

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    I love New Yorker covers. For years the venerable magazine has been featuring illustrations, often by cartoonists and illustrators working in a cartoon-like line and color style, that can be funny, poignant, beautiful, wistful and, at their best, reminders of the beautiful in the ordinary, glimpses of commonplace scenes that are suddenly brought into light…

  • David M. Bowers

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    David M. Bowers started his career as a studio staff artist, transitioned into illustration and then into gallery painting. He has been splitting his time between illustration and his personal work and is now concentrating more on the later. Over the course of his successful illustration career he has received a number of awards from…

  • Leah Palmer Preiss

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    Illustrator, calligrapher and puzzle maven Leah Palmer Preiss lists her influences as “medieval manuscripts, Mad magazine, art nouveau, Alice in Wonderland, Morse code, Persian miniatures, Monty Python, scientific illustration, 17th Century poetry, Flemish Renaissance paintings and the art of the insane”. If that sounds like an insane combination, it’s wonderfully so, and her quirky, funny,…