Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • The Tale of How book rereleased

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    Since 2006, I’ve been following the fascinatingly idiosyncratic work of South African artist and illustrator Ree Treweek. Treweek, along with animator/filmmaker Jannes Hendrikz and composer Marcus Smit, are collectively known as The Blackheart Gang. The group achieved notice for their deliriously quirky and beautiful animated short The Tale of How. They went from there to…

  • Innokenty Korshunov

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    Innokenty Korshunov is a painter living and working just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Korshunov studied at the School of Art in Odessa, where he developed an admiration for the art of the Renaissance, as well as a respect for traditional techniques. He brings these sensibilities, as well as a keen eye and subtle sense of…

  • Sterling Hundey (update 2015)

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    Sterling Hundey is an illustrator and gallery artist who I first wrote about back in 2007. Hundley has recently unveiled a redesigned website. At the moment it focuses on three projects, but since I last featured Hundely in 2010, he has also established a Behance portfolio and deviantART gallery on which you can find additional…

  • “Flowers of the Sky” on the Public Domain Review

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    “Flowers of the Sky” is a post on the Public Domain Review in which they have collected some historic depictions of comets and meteors, and arranged them in chronological order — including a section of the Bayeux Tapestry (above, top). The images have links to larger versions. While you’re on the Public Domain Review (my…

  • Wil Freeborn’s Coffee Spots

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    Wil Freeborn is an illustrator and designer based in Gourock, Scotland. I mentioned his work on Lines and Colors back in 2010. Freeborn likes to do location sketches in watercolor and/or ink. Late last year, he painted a series of watercolors of coffee shops in and around areas he visits. They were composed in a…

  • Kent Barton (update)

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    Kent Barton is an illustrator who works in scratchboard, as well as linocut and woodcut. His images carry echoes of graphic processes used in illustration in the past, while maintaining a very up to date sensibility. At times he adds color to his line work, applied with a light touch and an eye to keeping…