Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered at NRM

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    Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, the excellent exhibition about the grand master of American illustration that was organized by the Delaware Art Museum and was on view there earlier this year, has moved to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where it will be on display until October 28, 2012. Unfortunately, the NRM apparently…

  • Tony DiTerlizzi’s WondLa

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    Tony DiTerlizzi is an illustrator and author who is probably best known as the co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles. In addition he has been the illustrator and at times author of a number of other children’s books. His latest project is as the author and illustrator of The Search for WondLa and A Hero for…

  • Ricardo Martinez

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    As I’ve pointed out in several previous posts, scratchboard, despite its close relationship to pen and ink, is a medium with its own distinct characteristics, and to my eye a particular visual charm. There’s just something about a well done scratchboard drawing, the patterns of white lines against black, that grabs my attention and lends…

  • Pascal Campion

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    Pascal Campion’s illustrations are, quite simply, a treat. Campion rarely uses line, working directly in areas of color, sometimes augmented with textures, but his images are so fundamentally graphic that his springy, energetic compositions carry much of the visual charm of drawings. At the same time they have the atmospheric qualities of painting. Like Tadahiro…

  • Leo Dillon, 1933 – 2012

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    I’m sorry to report that renowned illustrator Leo Dillon died on Saturday, May 26, 2012. Dillon, along with his wife and long-time artistic collaborator Diane, were particularly well known and influential in the fantasy and science fiction art communities. It would be difficult to sort out Leo Dillon’s work separate from that of Diane’s, nor…

  • Shelly Wan

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    Shelly Wan is an illustrator, concept artist and gallery artist who works both in digital and traditional media. She is currently an artist for Pixar and also does work for Magic: The Gathering as well as comic covers and book covers. Originally from Guang Zhou, China, where she studied at the Guang Zhou Academy of…