http://www.linesandcolors.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:55:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have long been fascinated by pen and ink drawing, and its mirror world cousin, scratchboard. Both are demanding mediums, but scratchboard is additionally difficult in that the unfamiliarity of working by subtraction rather than addition takes some practice, as well a mental shift (in common with some printmaking techniques); ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/09/02/mark-summers-update/ Kenn Backhaus is a contemporary realist painter who is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America and past president of Plein Air Painters of America. Backhaus was one of the painters featured in the 2007 PBS series Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape, and is instrumental in the independently produced ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/09/01/kenn-backhaus/ Christopher Denise is a visual development artist who has worked with companies like Fox/Blue Sky Studios and Treanor Brothers Animation. He is also a children's book illustrator whose clients include Candlewick Press, Penguin, Harcourt Brace McMillan and McGraw Hill. His website portfolio includes sections for character design, props design, environments ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/31/christopher-denise/ A "pencil test", as I mentioned in my recent post about Pencil Test Depot, is a hand-drawn animation sequence (or entire cartoon) in pencil, prior to the steps to final inking and painting. A rare Disney animated short that was never finished, a classic style 7 minute Mickey Mouse cartoon called ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/31/unfinished-classic-disney-pencil-test/ Since I wrote about Danish landscape painter Peder Mørk Mønstead (sometimes written as Peder Mørk Mønsted) two years ago, the wonderful World Wide Web has continued to do what it does best — grow at an astonishing rate, bringing with it the joy of even more resources on Mønstead's work. Notably, ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/30/more-peder-mork-monstead/ The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, sometimes shortened to Royal Society of Arts, or RSA, is a British institution founded in 1754 to "embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve our manufactures and extend our commerce". Among their many endeavors is a series of talks in ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/27/rsa-animate-cognitive-media/ James Christensen's paintings range from straightforward portraits to fantasy tinged depictions of angels and Renaissance ladies to phantasmic tableaux of fantasy subjects that look as though the books in a children's library had been run through a fan and reassembled by a cross-eyed surrealist. Christensen seems to swim in a rich ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/25/james-c-christensen/ The Haggin Museum in Stockton, California has the largest collection of works by the great American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker held by any museum. The collection had been on tour for some time and returned to the museum in May. Since then work has been completed on a newly remodeled gallery ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/23/the-haggin-museum-leyendecker-collection/ As necessary is it is these days for artists to have a presence online, there are times when print is the medium of choice for showing one's artwork, whether as a leave-behind for galleries, a sample book or portfolio for prospective clients or as a printed book for collectors. I wrote ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/22/magcloud/ I've written before about the beautiful etchings of James McNeill Whistler, whose work as an etcher is even less well known than his paintings. On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler is a new exhibition opening this Saturday, August 21, 2010, at the University of Michigan Museum ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/08/19/on-beauty-and-the-everyday-the-prints-of-james-mcneill-whistler/