Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy
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The Artist’s Magazine – Imaginative Realism
The March/April issue of The Artists Magazine is devoted to imaginative painting and magical realism. The cover and lead article feature the beautiful painting by James Gurney shown in the images above, and a step-through of his process in creating it. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing this particular painting in person, and it’s a…
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Christophe Vacher (update)
Christophe Vacher is a French painter and concept designer who I first wrote about back in 2007. He has worked for studios like Disney, Dreamworks, ad Universal, and his movie credits include titles like Dinosaur, Hercules, Tarzan, Treasure Planet, Enchanted and Dispicable Me. On his website, you will find examples his personal and professional work…
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Edmund Dulac (revisited)
Edmund Dulac was a French illustrator who moved to England relatively early in his career and eventually became a naturalized British citizen. He worked in the latter part of the “Golden Age” of illustration and beyond. He was renowned in particular his illustrations for several series of books based on the Arabian Nights. I wrote…
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Justin Gerard (update)
Justin Gerard is an illustrator based in Georgia who works in the publishing, gaming and film industries. I first profiled him in 2009, and pointed out my admiration for his richly imaginative dragons. Since then, in the midst of his other work, he has been creating a series of equally imaginative “Monster of the Month”…
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Chase Stone (update)
Since I last wrote about illustrator and concept artist Chase Stone back in 2014, he has created a new website, and has posted new work there as well as on the site of his artist’s representative, Richard Solomon. Stone works primarily in the areas of fantasy and science fiction, his dramatic highly realized approach bringing…
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Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye
As you might imagine, in the course of writing Lines and Colors I do a fair bit of searching out art images on the web — whenever possible searching for the largest examples of images of artwork that I can find. One of the ways I do this is to use the “image search” features…