Category: Illustration
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Eye Candy for Today: Dulac parrots
A Room Full of Parrots by Edmund Dulac, illustration from Beauty and the Beast, 1910. On The Pictorial Arts.
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Space Shuttle concept art
Concept art has a multitude of uses outside of the film and gaming industries, even out in the “real world” — theme parks for example, use concept art to plan attractions. Another use is in the development of proposed space vehicles, this has been the case since Chesley Bonestell created images of potential spacecraft for…
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Picturing Autumn on Tor.com
Here in the northern hemisphere, today is the first day of Autumn, AKA the Autumnal Equinox (and of course it’s the beginning of Spring down under, where they do everything upside backwards). An equinox is a point in the Earth’s orbit in which the tilted axis of our planet’s rotation is neither toward or away…
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Dinotopia: Art, Science and Imagination at Lyman Allyn Art Museum in CT
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will not be surprised that I am an admirer the work of illustrator/writer/painter James Gurney. (Let’s see.. beautifully painted illustration with influences from great 19th century artists and Golden Age illustrators, fantastical adventure stories with lushly imaginative settings, Hudson River valley landscape painting and plein air painting, and…
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The Tools Artists Use
The Tools Artists Use is a blog maintained by Bill Turner in which he poses a set of questions (the same set) to a number of artists — asking about their choice of drawing and painting tools, both traditional and digital, as well as supports, sketchbooks and the like. The questions and replies are posted…
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The Movie Titles Stills Collection
Wow. The Movie Titles Stills Collection. What a treasure trove this is for those who love: • movies • design • typography • and (to a lesser extent) illustration. Designer Christian Annyas has assembled a collection of still images of movie titles, from the 1920’s to the present. Though far from complete (how could it…