Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Illustration

  • Elwood H. Smith (update)

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    As I mentioned in my previous post about him from 2007, Elwood H. Smith has a delightful illustration style that carries echoes of great comic strips from the early part of the 20th Century, and somehow manages to look both retro and modern simultaneously. Smith hits the right balance for me between old and new,…

  • Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered

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    In a letter to his brother Theo in 1882, Vincent van Gogh wrote: “Do you know an American periodical called Harper’s Monthly Magazine? – there are marvellous sketches in it. I don’t know it very well, I’ve only seen six months of it and have only 3 issues myself, but there are things in it…

  • Andrew Hem

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    Andrew Hem is an illustrator and gallery artist whose illustration clients include The Atlantic, LA Times, Chicago Time Out, New Scientist and Fort Worth Opera. Hem, originally from Cambodia and now based in Los Angeles, studied at the Art Center College of Design. He works in gouache and acrylic in a painterly, textural style that…

  • Audubon’s Birds of America

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    If your impression of the paintings of French-American naturalist, ornithologist and artist John James Audubon is based on small reproductions of some of his more subdued bird images, you may be surprised by the views afforded in this terrific online resource. The University of Pittsburgh, which owns a rare complete edition of Audubon’s Birds of…

  • Emily Carroll

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    Emily Carroll is an illustrator working in the television animation industry who is also a webcomics artist. You can find galleries of her illustration and webcomics on her website, as well as additional material on her blog, along with some Flickr sets. Carroll works in an open line and filled color style, accented with textural…

  • Edward Sorel: Nice Work If You Can Get It

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    Edward Sorel: Nice Work If You Can Get It is a 20 minute documentary about the well known cartoonist and satirist filmed by his son, Leo Sorel. In it the cartoonist discusses his career, his freeform, direct-in-ink drawing process and his degree of self criticism. There is also commentary from some of his famous contemporaries…