Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Winter Solstice 2013

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    A few winter images to mark the winter solstice today. If you want more, revisit Irene Gallo’s “Picturing Winter: A Solstice Celebration” from 2011. Images above: John Henry Twachtman, Gustave Courbet, Caspar David Friedrich, Antoine Blanchard, Albert Bierstadt, Ivan Bilibin, Neil Welliver, Alphonse Mucha, Ivan Shishkin, Maxfield Parrish, Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth, Toshi Yoshida)

  • Journey, Aaron Becker

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    When I was young, I had a wonderful book called Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson (see my article here), about a boy with a magical crayon that becomes a pathway to adventures by bringing what is drawn with it to life. It was one of my favorite books as a child. It…

  • Harry Anderson Art

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    When I wrote about the terrific mid-20th century American illustrator Harry Anderson back in 2007, there were limited sources for images of his work on the web (though Leif Peng’s Flickr set is still going strong). Thanks, to Jim Pinkoski there is terrific site devoted to Anderson and his work called Harry Anderson Art. The…

  • Eugène Grasset

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    Eugène Grasset was a Swiss illustrator, poster artist, sculptor and designer who was instrumental in the creation of the Art Nouveau style. Though not well known in the U.S. today, his poster art, in particular, was was very popular here in the late 19th century. In addition to his own work, Grasset was an influential…

  • James Gurney's How I Paint Dinosaurs

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I’m an admirer of the work of illustrator and painter James Gurney. I also love dinosaurs and paleontological art, an area in which Gurney is one of the foremost artists working today, so I was delighted to receive a review copy of Gurney’s instructional DVD…

  • Digital portrait time-lapse by Kyle Lambert

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    Illustrator, visual development artist and digital painter Kyle Lambert has posted a nice time-lapse video of his process in painting a digital portrait of actor Morgan Freeman, using an iPad and the Procreate painting app. [Via Daring Fireball]