Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy
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Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at NHIA
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that James Gurney is one of my favorite contemporary illustrators, as well as being a superb landscape painter and the author of several books on art technique. Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney is an exhibition that opens today at the New Hampshire Institute of…
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New improved blog list (well, updated anyway)
In the left hand column of this blog, about halfway down, under the long lists of categories and the longer list of archives, is a list of links under the heading “Relevant Blogs”. This has long been ignored, both unduly so by myself, and perhaps rightly so by those who have clicked on many of…
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Retro Future Transportation Illustrations on DRB
Is it the future yet? I just love past visions of the future (particularly when the future is in our past). The folks at Dark Roasted Blend, as they often do, have assembled some nice collections of retro future illustration — in this case past visions of future transportation, mostly culled from popular science magazines…
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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…