Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Malcolm McNeill

    Malcolm McNeill is an illustrator, concept artist and comics artist based in New York. His work has appeared in publications like The New York Times, National Lampoon and titles for Marvel Comics. McNeill was collaborating with William S. Burroughs, before his death, on an “word/image novel” called Ah Pook is Here (image above, top), based,…

  • Ivan Bilibin

    Every once in a while I stumble across something by accident that turns out to be a great find. I was in the Met in New York last weekend and they have a wonderful practice (fortunately in common with many major museums lately) of rotating works into view from their collection of drawings, prints and…

  • Chris Gall

    Chris Gall is an illustrator and author living in Arizona, and is also an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. His paintings seem to have a social realist, heroic WPA mural sensibility to them, and occasionally feel a bit like Thomas Hart Benton doing illustrations for Popular Science. What I find most interesting, though,…

  • Dave Malan

    Dave Malan is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Salt lake City, where he works for Disney Games. The work displayed on his site and blog, however, is mostly his personal and gallery work, which ranges from straightforward portraiture to highly finished oils in a style that leans to caricature-like exaggeration. The paintings on…

  • Daryl Mandryk

    I don’t know why, exactly, but it seems like most adolescent boys, including the ones that remain in charge of some part of us as adults, love a good monster. A lot of girls like monsters too, of course, but it seems much more ingrained in boys. Perhaps it’s some primal urge to slay the…

  • Arthur Radenbaugh

    Are we there yet? Is this the future? Apparently not, judging by the lack of seed-shaped aerodynamic three-wheeled cars and art deco skyscrapers (Chrysler Building notwithstanding), but the future as depicted by futurist illustrator Arthur Radenbaugh in the 1930’s would have been very cool indeed. Radenbaugh did his futuristic renderings of cars for Motor magazine,…