Wish 'Lines In Addition To Colours' A Happy Tenth Birthday

There are a real few fine art blogs which I convey followed consistently inward the terminal 10 years. One of them is Charley Parker's fantastic 'Lines too Colors'. It's a actually shape act!

The header for the Lines too Colors fine art spider web log - complaint the quotes!

There are real few people on the Internet who write amongst enthusiasm too existent noesis virtually an enormous diversity of artists too illustrators past times too present.

Charley writes virtually instance from the 19th to the 21st centuries too fine art history by too large amongst authorisation - too amazing links.  He actually knows his stuff.

The exclusively other blogger who comes unopen to him inward damage of the contribution to fine art teaching is James Gurney (Gurney Journey) - but James tends to write shorter posts too to convey a to a greater extent than practical oriented spider web log - awesome every bit it is.  They complement each other real well.

The Lines too Colors archive - accessed via the timeline archives inward the left mitt column inward desk-top stance - is genuinely amazing. Very piffling of it is time-specific (except when he is writing virtually exhibitions) too so yous tin delve through the months too years of the terminal decade too come upward up amongst masses of cloth to inspire too educate.  Or alternatively focus on his categories (also inward the left mitt column) too larn about Drawing or Pen & Ink or Vision too Optics or Watercolor too Gouache or Webcomics etc.

I know I've flora out virtually masses of artists for the start fourth dimension on Charley's blog.

This is why he does it

When I was 10 or so, I came across some paperback reprints of the EC Mad comics from the 1950’s. These irreverent, hilarious comics, written past times comic genius Harvey Kurtzman too maniacally drawn past times Wally Wood, Will Elder too Jack Davis, popped the pinnacle off my impressionable piffling brain, too both my eyes too my the world got significantly wider. (Those early on Mad comics were outrageous, subversive too exterior the mainstream inward a agency that’s difficult to depict now. They were the visual equivalent to early on Rock n’ Roll. See my postal service on Wally Wood.)


It was my start delicious “Wow, there’s a whole other the world out in that place I didn’t know about!” 2nd (and what made me desire to pull comics).


Moments similar that convey happened i time again every bit I’ve been dazzled past times the uncovering of novel artists or genres that convey sparked my imagination: mid ’60s Marvel superhero comics, belatedly ’60s cloak-and-dagger comics, the classic illustrators too pen-and ink artists of the belatedly 19th too early on 20th centuries (particularly the Brandywine school), sometime master copy drawings, Dada, Surrealism, Impressionist painting, early on 1900’s paper comics, 19th century academic painting, European comics, Chinese ink painting, Japanese Anime, digital concept art… – every i a revelation too a novel world.


It’s my please inward that feeling of wide-eyed uncovering that has prompted me to create Lines too Colors inward August of 2005.


I’m non a critic. In fact, I may last to a greater extent than of an anti-critic. I’m exclusively writing virtually things I like. It’s my promise that I tin innovate yous to some visual fine art gems that yous may non last aware of, or possibly say yous something yous didn’t know virtually mortal or something you’re already familiar with. (And maybe yous tin create the same for me.)

I hope, if he isn't already, that he's on the curriculum reading listing for every instance course.

I simply wishing he'd create a postal service virtually how he does that amongst the images! ;)

If yous tin spare a 2nd too convey e'er appreciated his work, tin I advise yous acquire out him a comment today.
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