http://www.linesandcolors.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:16:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/20/imaginative-realism-how-to-paint-what-doesnt-exist/ "Gifted Artist" is a charity art show and auction to benefit the Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in Loma Linda, California. The event will be held on Saturday December 19th from 5 to 10pm at the CCAA Museum of Art in Rancho Cucamonga. The auction features work by a long list ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/19/gifted-artist/ While I'm on the subjects of sketching and anniversaries (see my previous post about Urban Sketchers), this Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the World Wide SketchCrawl. SketchCrawl is a drawing marathon, originally conceived by Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa, and modeled as a pubcrawl, but with art materials. Artists gather ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/18/25th-world-wide-sketchcrawl/ As I mentioned in an earlier post, French painter James Tissot, known for his radiant images of turn of the century high society in Paris and London, devoted much of his later work to religious themes. He created an ambitious series of 350 watercolors depicting the life of Christ, for which ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/18/james-tissot-the-life-of-christ/ Urban Sketchers, a terrific group sketchblog that I wrote about previously here and here, celebrated its first year anniversary this month. Urban Sketchers is devoted to drawing on location in urban environments, and it has come a long way in the year since it was established by Gabi Campanario, an ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/16/urban-sketchers-turns-1/ NuFormer is a design firm based in the Netherlands. They have developed a computer-based projection system for creating the illusion of moving, 3-dimensional alterations to the surfaces of buildings. The results are striking, as you can see in this video on Vimeo. Bear in mind that these are not CGI ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/13/nuformer-3-d-building-projections/ Russian born illustrator Gennady Spirin studied at the Moscow Art School and the Academy of Arts, as well as the Moscow Stroganov Institute, and currently resides in the U.S. Spirin is the author and illustrator of a number of children's books for which his illustrations have garnered awards in Europe ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/12/gennady-spirin/ Anyone who has read my previous post about comics art great Al Williamson, knows that he is high on my personal list of adventure comics artists, but I have to admit that even I was surprised by the new book from Flesk publications, Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/11/al-williamson%e2%80%99s-flash-gordon-a-lifelong-vision-of-the-heroic/ One of the problems confronting small museums, that are most often originally based on the art collection of an individual at their inception, is the question acquiring and maintaining a physical space in which to display the works. Maintaining a physical space is often more difficult for small museums than ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/10/dahesh-museum-of-art/ Like its predecessor, The Zoomquilt I, which I wrote about in 2006, The Zoomquilt II is a collaborative art project by 34 different artists. Basically an amusement, this is an animated sequence of scenes, each one of which is related to the others by a transitional area within the image that ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/07/the-zoomquilt-ii/