Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Chet Phillips (update)

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    Writing about scratchboard a few days ago prompted me to check back in with illustrator Chet Phillips, who I first posted about back in October of last year. Phillips uses Corel Painter to create what he terms “Digital Scratchboard”, using the digital painting programs customizable tools to incise sharp edged linework as if scraping with…

  • Edwin Austin Abbey

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    Edwin Austin Abbey was an American illustrator and muralist. Born here in Philadelphia, he moved to New York as a teenager (not that the term “teenager” was used in those days) and began doing illustration for Harper’s. When he was in his 20’s, Harper’s sent him to England to do research for an illustration project…

  • JacksonPollock.org

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    Ever wanted to be Jackson Pollock, indulge in “Action Painting”, be the darling of the smart set and express your existential angst by throwing paint at the canvas? JacksonPollock.org is a web site by Miltos Manetas that lets you do just that, at least virtually. It’s a Flash-based interactive in which you can spatter, drip…

  • Elizabeth Traynor

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    I’m particularly fond of pen and ink illustration, and its less common variant, scratchboard. Scratchboard is the inverse, or “dark side” (I couldn’t resist) of pen and ink drawing, in which a specially prepared board, coated with a thin layer of white clay, is used as the foundation for the drawing. Large areas of (usually)…

  • Tim O’Brien

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    I’ve had this post about illustrator Tim O’Brien on the back burner for a while, ever since it was suggested by illustrator Jack Harris. Now seems a particularly good time to finish and post it, though, because Erik Olsen has just posted 2 parts of a fascinating 3 part Iconic Audio interview (Podcast) with O’Brien…

  • Art Out Loud

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    There are a number of illustrators and artists who have posted demonstrations of their painting techniques online, but how much better it is when you can see artists demonstrate their working process in person. Art Out Loud is a series of demos at the Society of Illustrators in New York, conceived and arranged by Tor/Forge…