Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2015

  • Zac Retz

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    Zac Retz is an illustrator, color artist and character designer for film, based in Rochester, NY. Though you will find a few color guides and model sheets, most of the work on Retz’s blog and website appear to be personal digital sketches, sometimes sketched from life, but more often flights of fancy. In his personal…

  • Eye Candy for Today: E. Phillips Fox’s The Ferry

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    The Ferry, E. Phillips Fox Link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Fox was an Australian artist who studied and worked in Paris, adopting the brilliant color and free brushwork of the French Impressionists. Like his counterparts,…

  • Mike Worrall

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    Originally from the UK and now living in Australia, painter Mike Worrall is essentially self-taught. His work shows a range of fascinating influences, from Velázquez — particularly evident in Worrall’s fascination with those bizarrely wide gowns seen in portraits of the Spanish royal family — to other 17th century painters, to Surrealists like Paul Delvaux,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John Everett Millais’ Ophelia

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    Ophelia, John Everett Millais Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable version (22 MB) on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate, London. Prompted by yesterday’s post on the mezzotint print by John Stephenson after this painting by Millais, and the fact that I last mentioned the painting back in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ophelia, Stephenson mezzotint after Millais

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    Ophelia, James Stephenson, after John Everett Millais In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mezzotint, etching and Stipple, roughly 21 x 34 inches (53 x 86 cm). In a kind of artistic collaboration that was not uncommon at the time, highly skilled etcher and engraver James Stephenson has interpreted as a print what is perhaps the…

  • Lucas Graciano

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    Southern California artist Lucas Graciano has worked in concept design and visual development for the gaming industry as well as illustration for books and games. His website and blog focus primarily on the latter, particularly showcasing his fantasy themed illustrations for “Magic: The Gathering”. Both sources provide some reasonably large images in which you can…