Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • ImageS Magazine #13

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    Rules, they say, are meant to be broken. I’m going to break two of my own rules, just so I can tell you about something special; then, I’m just as quickly going to glue them back together and put them back in place. The rules, as outlined in my information on Suggesting a Site to…

  • Parka Blogs’ art tools and gears

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    I’ve written before about a blog called The Tools Artists Use, which is based on the excellent concept of asking various illustrators and other artists about their primary working tools. The Tools Artists Use blog is taking a break, but the most recent post points out that Teoh Yi Chie of Parka Blogs (which I…

  • Nigel Buchanan

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    Nigel Buchanan is an Australian illustrator based in Sydney, whose clients include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Time magazine, among others. His illustrations are created in a broad range of degrees of stylization and conceptual abstraction, but are always delivered with considerable graphic punch. Buchanan knows how to use both muted,…

  • Gustave Doré

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    When I was growing up, there were several books in the house that helped prompt my interest in art. A couple of them, in particular, impressed me with the power of drawing and printmaking. One was a 1948 edition of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, illustrated by Gustave Doré; another was a Dover edition of Doré’s…

  • Vladimir Gvozdeff

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    Vladimir Gvozdeff (Gvozdev) is an artist from (if I’m not mistaken) Slovenia Russia [I was mistaken, see this post’s comments], who works in both two and three dimensional media, often combining them in the same work. On his website, I found two series of particular interest. One is of mechanisms — clockwork animals drawn out…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gibson ink drawings

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    Various drawings, Charles Dana Gibson From the Toronto Public Library. Gibson was one of the great masters of pen and ink and a major early figure in “Golden Age” illustration. Look at the head of the “Gibson Girl” the center, and the variety of lines, from the short, fine pen strokes around the eyes and…