Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Painting

  • Different Strokes From Different Folks Year End Portrait Swap

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    I’ve written before about Karin Jurick, both about her own wonderful paintings and her ongoing group painting blog, Different Strokes From Different Folks in which numerous artists paint their own interpretation of the same photographic resource in periodic challenges. I also wrote last year about the Different Strokes From Different Folks Portrait Swap, in which…

  • Adebanji Alade

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    Adebanji Alade was born in Nigeria, and trained at Yaba College of Technology (a renowned art college in Nigeria). He extended his studies at Heatherly’s School of Fine Art in Chelsea in the UK. He currently lives in the UK and works from a studio in Chelsea. I first encountered Alade’s work through his blog,…

  • Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist

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    There are hundreds of art instruction books out there, with a wide range of topics, approaches and degrees of value, but Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist by renowned painter, illustrator and Dinotopia artist James Gurney, is exceptional in several ways. Before I go too far, I’ll point out that although this is…

  • Donato Giancola paints “The Mechanic”

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    Donato Giancola, the renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator that I wrote about previously last year and in 2005, has a new instructional DVD (more details here), published by Massive Black Media, in which the camera follows him through the creation of “The Mechanic” (larger version here), an painting that was created specifically for the…

  • Bill Perkins (update)

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    California artist Bill Perkins helped co-found the Plein-air Artists of California in 1983, and has been a member of the Plein-air Painters of America since 1985. Perkins is a recognized teacher. He has taught at the Art Center College of Design and Associates in Art and is currently an instructor at Los Angeles Academy of…

  • The Virtual Paintout

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    Kentucky artist Bill Guffey has come up with a great idea for a Virtual Paintout, in which participants use Google Maps Street Views as the subjects for paintings in traditional media. Guffey actually talked with the Google Maps team and received their approval to the idea of creating paintings from Google Maps Street Views and…