Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at Stamford Museum

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    James Gurney has become widely known for his instructional books and videos as well as his role as a plein air painter, lecturer and popular blogger, but it was his series of fantastic Dinotopia adventure picture books that originally attracted the most notice — in the art community, the paleo art community and among the…

  • Alina Chau (update)

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    Alina Chau is a painter, illustrator and animation artist whose whimsical images are rendered in lively applications of watercolor. Her work includes elements of children’s book illustration, concept design, naturalistic painting, stylized design elements and the influence of traditional Chinese ink painting. I particularly enjoy the way she incorporates design elements, textures and patterns into…

  • Chris Turnham (update 2015)

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    Chris Turnham is a screenprint-maker and illustrator who works in film and television as well as publishing. His crisp, lively images of architecture, streets, people and plants always seem loose and free, despite their exacting draftsmanship and use of hard edges. Largely, I think, this is due to Turnham’s deft use of close color and…

  • Yap Kun Rong

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    Yap Kun Rong is a concept artist and illustrator originally from Singapore and currently living and working in Tokyo, Japan. His credits in the gaming industry include Metal Gear Rising, Wonderful 101, and Bayonetta 2. He has also worked in comics for companies like Avalon Studios and Radical Publishing. I particularly like his choice of…

  • Joseph Barbaccia

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    In a process that combines elements of painting, mosaics and sculpture — and perhaps bears some relation to the image making process known as quilling (see my post on Yulia Brodskaya) — Washington, DC-based illustrator and designer Joseph Barbaccia creates his illustrations with colored strands of polymer clay. Working from pencil sketches, Barbaccia create an…

  • Valerio Fabbretti

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    Originally from Italy and now living and working in San Francisco, where he studied at Academy of Art University, Valerio Fabbretti is a children’s book illustrator, concept artist and comics artist. Fabbretti brings to his work a lively, innocent style ideal for his subjects. There is little information on his website about materials, but it…