Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Jamel Akib

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    Jamel Akib is an illustrator, gallery artist and portraitist based in West Sussex, England. His range of style reaches from straightforwardly realistic to images composed of blazing shards of color, often with rough sketch-like elements of drawing incorporated with the more paint-like finish of key areas. Akib takes great advantage of the properties of pastel…

  • "Selfies" #3

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    OK, I know that the original joking premise of these posts has worn a little thin, but the self-portraits are as strong as ever. (Images above, w/links to my posts: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Arnold Böcklin, M.C. Escher, Alice Pike Barney, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Käthe Kollwitz, Norman Rockwell, Gerrit Dou)

  • Rob Rey (update)

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    Rob Ray is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Rhode Island who I last wrote about in 2010. Since then, he has continued to fill his portfolio with more of his wonderfully painterly oils, and garner awards and mentions in both fields. His painting Ukulele Day Dream (images above, top), in particular, took Best…

  • Boris Zvorykin

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    Boris Zvorykin was a Russian illustrator active at the end of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th. Apart from that, I’ve found very little background or biographical information. I would be curious to know, in particular, the relationship between Zvorykin and Ivan Bilibin, who also did colorful and decorative illustrations of…

  • Janet Hamlin

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    Janet Hamlin is an illustrator whose clients include Time Warner, Universal Studios, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, IBM, HarperCollins and Associated Press. She is also a courtroom sketch artist. The latter role is one of those fascinating areas in which photography has not replaced drawing as a form of reporting, primarily because cameras…

  • Dean Cornwell WWII advertising illustration study

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    Today is Veterans Day here in the U.S. A friend of mine — painter, comics artist and animation artist Mike Manley — has this wonderful study by the great American illustrator Dean Cornwell hanging in his house. The final was an illustration for the Fisher automotive division of General Motors, urging the public to buy…