Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Outsider Art

  • Jack Morefield

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    Boston based painter Jack Morefield paints large scale acrylic paintings, usually portraits and often of contemporary music, pop culture or even literary figures, in which the image is composed of swirling arrangements of colored strands. These strands, or bands if you prefer, are at times more or less defined; Morefield works with their edges as…

  • Art Nouveau style mural in Montreal

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    Here in Philadelphia, which has, I believe, more anti-graffiti murals than any other city in North America, I’ve seen my share of large scale and nicely done murals on the sides of buildings. However, in Montreal, members of A’Shop, an artists collective that draws from the graffiti and street art culture, has created a mural…

  • Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsesssed

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    A few years ago, well known science writer Carl Zimmer was at a pool party with a scientist friend who studies genetics, and noticed a tattoo of DNA on his shoulder. It prompted him to wonder if other scientists had similarly chosen to have tattoos related to their scientific pursuits. He put the call out…

  • Galactik Trading Cards

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    Galactik Trading Cards are collectable cards printed with images of work from over 100 artists from the fields of visionary art, magic realism, contemporary surrealism, fantasy art and related genres. Some of the artists are among the most recognized names in their genres, other are new or less well known. The initiative’s website has galleries…

  • El Mac

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    Miles ‘Mac’ MacGregor, AKA “El Mac” is an artist based between Los Angeles and Phoenix. He started out painting with acrylics and doing graffiti, moved into murals and developed a focus on faces and portraits, both in a photorealist style and in his unique signature style. He sometimes collaborates with an artist known as Retna…

  • Augustin Lesage

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    Augustin Lesage was a French painter associated with “outsider art” (L’Art Brut), art created outside of normal cultural definitions. A coal miner from the age of 14, Lesage supposedly heard a voice deep in the mine say “One day you’ll be a painter!”, followed by a succession of other voices, some of which he took…