Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2015

  • Anna Mason

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    Anna Mason is an English botanical illustrator and watercolor artist. She often works at a relatively large scale, and her paintings have an appealing blend of detail, texture and color. Mason is self-taught, and only 18 months after beginning botanical painting, won a Royal Horticulture Society medal for botanical arts for a sequence of 20…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Holbein’s portrait of Thomas More

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    Portrait of Sir Thomas More (painting); Sir Thomas More (drawing), Hans Holbein the Younger Links are to zoomable versions on the Google Art Project. The painting is in the Frick Collection, which also has a zoomable version, downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons; the drawing is in the Royal Collection Trust, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons.…

  • Vilhelm Hammershøi

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    If I were to look up “muted palette” in my mental art dictionary, the definition would be a painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi. The Danish painter, active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, was noted for his enigmatic, poetic interiors — sometimes empty, but frequently occupied by a lone figure. This figure was often…

  • Eye Candy for Today: J.C. Leyendecker Pilgrim and Football Player illustration

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    Pilgrim and Football Player, cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November 24, 1928, J. C. Leyendecker This is on the website of the Norman Rockwell Museum’s Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies. The page has fascinating information both about the origins of the association of American Football with the holiday of Thanksgiving, and about…

  • Lost Property

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    Lost Property is a touching and beautifully realized animated short (5 mins) — written, directed and with art by Åsa Lucande. [Via Katherine Trendacosta on io9)

  • Patrick O’Keefe

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    Patrick O’Keefe is an illustrator, visual development and concept artist working in games, tv and print. He is also a muralist for community projects. O’Keefe has a nicely crisp, fresh style of digital painting, with lots of texture and atmosphere. I like in particular his space themed concepts, in which he carries forward mid-20th century…