Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout street scene

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    French Street with a Medieval Turret, Samuel Prout In the National Gallery of Art, DC. The National Gallery’s page says this was done in brush and watercolor, as apparently does the artist’s inscription, but I would have assumed an initial drawing in pen and brown ink. Though it exists in that fascinating boundary between drawing…

  • David Chambers

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    David Chambers is a concept and visual development artist, based in British Columbia, who works primarily in the gaming industry. His website home page acts as a portfolio slideshow, but you can also drill down into his portfolio, which is arranged by subject matter. I found his approach to environments of particular interest for the…

  • Niroot Puttapipat (himmapaan)

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    Niroot Puttapipat is a London-based illustrator who uses the handle “Himmapaan”. His work shows his admiration for Golden Age illustrators like Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle and Edmund Dulac, as well as natural history and paleontological greats like Charles R. Knight. Puttapipat works with a nice balance between detailed rendering and graphic shapes, particular in his…

  • Mick McGinty (update 2014)

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    I’m delighted to say that after a hiatus of three years, painter/blogger/illustrator Mick McGinty is back to posting his small paintings on his blog Twice a Week, and offering them at auction. Presumably, McGitnty has been busy in his other role as an illustrator, but it’s great to see him once again posting his plain…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Carlos Reis Plus de Vin

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    Plus de Vin, Carlos Reis On Google Art Project; downloadable large file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation. In this loosely rendered and fascinatingly dark composition, it’s evident that the wine was more in demand than the fruit.

  • Joseph Todorovitch

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    Joseph Todorovitch is a California painter who works primarily with figurative subjects, though these often include elements of interiors, still life or landscape. Todorovitch has a refined, restrained approach to value and color, as well as a subtle sense of the use of edges; elements that together give his paintings both a quiet power and…