Lines and Colors

Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.

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Ben Haggett

June 8, 2014

Ben Haggett is a painter from Montana, who also happens to make some of the best and most cleverly designed pochade boxes out there, under the name of Alla Prima Pochade (as I described in my extensive article on pochade boxes).

Somewhat ironically, Haggett has in recent years become fascinated with digital painting, working in Artrage on an iPad (images above, top five paintings). Haggett still also works in traditional media, like oil (above, bottom four paintings).

Both his traditional and digital work has a textural, painterly surface quality, with bright, freely applied colors. Not only is the “painterly” quality of the digital work fascinating, so is the continuity of approach in his digital and traditional media work.

Haggett’s blog features both kinds of paintings, and also has some photos of the clever pochade-box-like holder he has created for doing digital iPad painting en plein air (above, bottom photo).

http://benhaggett.wordpress.com
Alla Prima Pochade
My previous post on Pochade Boxes

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Digital Art, Gallery and Museum Art, Painting
Hayao Miyazaki animated short

June 8, 2014

Hayao Miyazaki, director of some of the most fantastic and beautifully executed animated feature films in history, is not known for creating short films.

According to io9, this animated short, which has recently become available on Vimeo, was an exercise to break a creative block Miyazaki experienced while working on Princess Mononoke.

The film was essentially done in the form of a music video for “On Your Mark” by Chage and Aska, but is its own self-contained story, and packs a lot of visual imagination into its seven minutes. Miyazaki ventures into the ‘futuristic anime” genre that he usually doesn’t work with, and puts many dedicated directors of the genre to shame.

You may want to watch it twice to get the gist of the story, and then several more times, just to be dazzled.

The short is available on Vimeo (at least for the moment) under the title “On Your Mark & Castles in the Air (CHAGE & ASKA PV)“.

For more info on the director, see my post on Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli).

[Via io9]

On Your Mark & Castles in the Air (CHAGE & ASKA PV), Vimeo

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Animation, Anime & Manga
Eye Candy for Today: Gossaert’s Merchant

June 7, 2014

Portrait of a Merchant, Jan Gossaert

On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC.

Gossaert has surrounded his subject with items relevant to his profession.

For more, see my post on Jan Gossaert.

Portrait of a Merchant, Google Art Project

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Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art
Medieval style Tolkien illustrations by Sergei Lukhimov

June 7, 2014

These illustrations, mostly done in a style reminiscent of medieval Russian iconography, are from Russian editions of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books.

They were painted primarily in gouache by Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov. I haven’t been able to find much directly on Iukhimov, save multiple references to this particular series of illustrations.

The largest selection of images seems to be on the Russian site, Live Memory, with more on let us lie in the sun.

[Via io9]

Sergei Iukhimov on Live Memory
let us lie in the sun
Tolkienwinkel

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Illustration, Watercolor and Gouache
Back from Tech Hell

June 6, 2014

You may have noticed several delays and glitches in the display of Lines and Colors in the last couple of weeks (or longer), as I’ve struggled with a number of technical issues behind the scenes.

Hopefully, they are now resolved.

There is a new design in place; it’s a bit rough and incomplete at the moment, but I’ll be refining it as I go on.

Meanwhile, I can get back to writing posts (sigh).

(Image above: Hell, from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.)

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Ann Kraft Walker

June 5, 2014

Largely self-taught, Texas painter Ann Kraft Walker started out in a folk art style, but eventually evolved into a refined realist approach for her still life and portrait subjects.

Since 2010, she has supplemented her study with several workshops, and has been featured in a number of juried exhibitions and art magazines.

Walker’s still life paintings are intimate and understated, with an inviting contemplative quality. Her portraits are somewhat more bold, often with areas of the canvas left unfinished, suggesting an immediacy of execution.

[Via Jeffrey Hayes]

http://annkraftwalker.com
InSight Gallery
FASO BoldBrush

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Gallery and Museum Art