Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Baptiste Greuze chalk drawing

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    Head of a Young Woman, Jean-Baptiste Greuze Red chalk on paper. 16 x 12 inches (41 x 31 cm), 18th century. In the Morgan Library and Museum. Use download link under image, or zoom version. Greuze has drawn an understated but elegant and remarkably strong study. The hands and bonnet are quickly realized, but the…

  • Sergio Lopez

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    Sergio Lopez is a painter based in the San Francisco Bay area, who works with landscape and figurative subjects. His landscapes, both in plein air and more refined studio works, are based on direct observation. His figurative works are more interpretive. Though painted from life models, his figure compositions often incorporate invented decorative elements, floral…

  • Playground

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    Playground is a wordless animated short by Ryosuke Oshiro from the Tokyo Unniversity of the Arts, about a loner schoolboy who finds release from his drab life in school in his fertile imagination. He encounters another, and they have something of a battle of the imaginations. Animated with a soft touch, it puts emphasis on…

  • Audubon’s wild turkeys

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    Great American Hen & Young. Vulgo, Female Wild Turkey. Meleagris gallapavo, John James Audubon Image from Wikipedia, original source: University of Pittsburgh. The American wild turkey is so removed from the rotund form of contemporary commercial farm turkeys as to be almost unrecognizable as related. Like most of our commercial poultry, the latter have been…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John William Hill’s Plums

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    Plums, John William Hill Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on Bristol board, 7 x 12 inches; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The enlargement on the museum’s website is actually in greater detail than the crops I’ve provided here. I love the rendering of the fruit in this simple, direct study: fastinatingly textural close-up, but naturalistic…

  • Marie-Laure Cruschi (Cruschiform)

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    Marie-Laure Cruschi is a French illustrator and designer, who often goes by the name of her Paris studio, Cruschiform. Cruschi’s work crosses the boundaries of her two areas of expertise, veering from vector illustration to design — and back again; the two inextricably intertwined in many images. Her strengths are obvious in those elements that…