http://www.linesandcolors.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:57:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Peter de Séve, a terrific illustrator, New Yorker cover artist and character designer for animated feature films, who I wrote about back in 2006, has a new children's book (Hooray!), a new blog (double Hooray!) and is the subject of a new monograph (triple Hooray!). The children's book is ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/05/peter-de-seve-update/ Butch Belair is a photographer and digital artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He indicates that he drew extensively as a child, but lost interest in drawing for a time and only returned to the practice a few years ago. He began to carry a pen and sketchbook and draw ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/04/butch-belair/ Don Ivan Punchatz was one of the outstanding talents in late 20th Century illustration. It's unlikely that you have not seen his illustrations somewhere, whether on book covers or in magazines like Time, Newsweek, Playboy, Esquire, Rolling Stone, National Geographic or National Lampoon. Personally, I remember being struck by his ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/11/02/don-ivan-punchatz-1936-2009/ Donato Giancola, the renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator that I wrote about previously last year and in 2005, has a new instructional DVD (more details here), published by Massive Black Media, in which the camera follows him through the creation of "The Mechanic" (larger version here), an painting that ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/10/31/donato-giancola-paints-the-mechanic/ Jon Foster, who I wrote about previously here and here, has a new web site. It is simultaneously wonderful and frustrating. It's wonderful, of course, because it features even more of Foster's elegant, painterly, and superbly accomplished illustrations, old and new; and now includes a terrific section of sketches. It's frustrating because ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/10/29/jon-foster-update-2/ Unmasked is a Halloween themed cover and four page comic story (two double page spreads) for the November 2nd issue of The New Yorker, by Chris Ware. In a fashion Chris Ware fans have come to expect, the hilarious but subtle cover leads seamlessly into the story, a poignant look ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/10/28/chris-wares-unmasked/ M. Shawn Cornell's web site opens with the statement "If you see snow in the painting, it means that the artist was standing in snow. If you see rain in the painting, it means that the artist was getting very wet." Inexplicably, it requires that you drill down into Paintings, and ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/10/26/m-shawn-cornell/ A is for Atom is a 1952 (released in 1953) educational cartoon explaining the wonders and mysteries of atomic power, sponsored by General Electric and directed by Carl Urbano (who later went on to work for Hanna & Barbara). Like the more well known and widely distributed Our Friend the ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/10/26/a-is-for-atom/ Jean Fouquet was a painter of portraits and landscapes, even though, as a painter of the early Renaissance in 15th century France, he was largely limited to painting those things in the context of religious art (see my post on Giovanni Bellini). Fouquet was the court painter to Louis XI, and ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/10/25/jean-fouquet/ Al Williamson is one of the unsung greats of comics art. Well, perhaps "undersung" is a better word (if it is a word), in that those aware of his contributions are usually great admirers, but his work is not as widely known among contemporary comics readers as it should be ... http://www.linesandcolors.com/2009/10/23/al-williamson/