Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • MicroVisions 4

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    MicroVisions is an auction, now in its fourth year, in support of the Society of Illustrators scholarship fund. The auction is organized by Irene Gallo, the well known art director at Tor Books and author of the excellent blog, The Art Department, along with illustrator Dan Dos Santos (see my posts on Irene Gallo, Tor…

  • Justin Gerard

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    Justin Gerard is an illustrator about whom I have little background information. His web site has galleries of his beautiful fantasy themed illustrations, but lacks a simple bio. His blog has some fascinating details, like his confession about swiping a copy of a Step by Step Graphics from a college library because of an article…

  • Jean-Baptiste Monge

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    Jean-Baptiste Monge is a French fantasy illustrator with a specialty in portraying the world of faeries, elves, goblins and related faerie folk. Monge’s detailed, beautifully rendered paintings have a textural quality and subdued color palette ideally suited to his portrayal of the denizens of the unseen world at our feet and the edges of our…

  • Zdzisław Beksiński

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    Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, sculptor and photographer known for his darkly dystopian fantastic realism. His intricately rendered images of other worldly or post-apocalyptic landscapes, often populated with deathly or skeletal figures, are heavily atmospheric, as if filled with a mist of miasma and corruption. He has a sequence of images of cathedrals dissolving…

  • Dan Dos Santos’ “Top 10 SF/F Art Websites of 2008”

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    As part of the SF Signal year end round up of The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008, illustrator Dan Dos Santos has posted his Top 10 SF/F Art Websites of 2008, in which he was kind enough to list Lines and Colors (thanks, Dan). The list includes some sites I’ve specifically written posts about,…

  • Petar Meseldžija

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    Petar Meseldžija is a Serbian artist who started in comics, publishing a comic called Krampi in the comic magazine Stripoteka and working on a short licensed Tarzan series. He then went on to study painting at the Art Academy in Novi Sad and began to take on illustration work, eventually abandoning comics for illustration and…