Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Elizabeth Shippen Green

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    Sometimes who we encounter as a teacher can have a dramatic effect on our development as an artist, and even who we are as a person. Elizabeth Shippen Green encountered Howard Pyle. Green began her study of art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, drawing from plaster casts of classical sculpture for a…

  • Matthew Woodson

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    I really enjoy the work of young artists, whether still in art school, recently graduated or on their own independent course of learning. There is a particular appeal to that part of an artist’s development when their style and approach has not yet “hardened” into a set path. Illustrator and comics artist Matthew Woodson is…

  • Tim Jessell (update)

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    I first wrote about illustrator Tim Jessell and his “realistic with a twist” style in this post back in October of 2005. Since then, his site has been completely redone and the Portfolio section expanded with larger versions of his editorial and advertising illustrations for the likes of Time Magazine, American Airlines, Nike, Polaroid and…

  • Joe Ciardiello

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    Sometimes there is a fine line, if you’ll excuse the expression, between drawing and painting. Illustrator Joe Ciardiello manages to walk on both sides of that line at will by developing his color work out of his black and white drawing style. His black and white drawings have a wonderfully loose and lively line quality,…

  • Sir John Everett Millais

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    There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples (…) When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;…

  • Designers who blog (update)

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    Designers who blog, Catherine (cat) Morley’s terrific blog about just that, featured another post about lines and colors today (permalink here), with a focus on my post about “Painting a day” blogs. I’ve written about Morley’s great selection of designers’ blogs before, as well as her Cat’s Fancy column for Creative Latitude in which she…