Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2016

  • Eye Candy for Today: George Roth Landscape

    View in the Bentheim Forest, George Andries Roth Link is to original in the Rijksmusem, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions (with free Rijksstudio account); additional downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. In this wonderful 19th century landscape, a shaft of late afternoon light slices through a break in a German forest, illuminating some objects,…

  • Mars Huang (B6 Drawing Man)

    Mars Huang is an artist based in Japan (I think — most of the pieces are labeled as scenes from Japan and Taiwan). Though he signs his work “Mars”, his Tumblr blog credits him only as “B6 Drawing man”; it wasn’t until I followed a link to one of his process videos on Vimeo, that…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Greuze’s Broken Vessel

    The Broken Vessel (La Cruche cassée), Jean-Baptiste Greuze Link is to downloadble large file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Louvre. Though the actual meaning is open to interpretation, the general assumption is that the allegorical subject suggested by the gathered flower petals and broken vase is one of lost innocence and defloration. Greuze…

  • Franz Xaver Hoch

    Franz Xaver Hoch was a German landscape painter and printmaker active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His dramatic compositions are often cast is subtle, almost melancholy light. Unfortunately, I can find few images sources for Hoch, and little in the way of biographical information — most of that on German language sites.

  • Eye Candy for Today: James Montgomery Flagg ink illustration

    She Sailed Majestically Past the Wretch, Followed Meekly by Septimus, James Montgomery Flagg Pen and ink, roughly 22×29 inches (56×74 cm); original is in the Norman Rockwell Museum, larger here; also slightly larger zoomable version on Google Art Project, and downloadable version of that image on Wikimedia Commons. It looks as though the Google Art…

  • Derek Theodore Davis

    Landscape painter Derek Theodore Davis takes advantage of textural paint application and indistinct edges to give his work a pleasing unity. This also allows him to craft bold, geometric compositions, often with light cascading through a scene in angular paths. I particularly like his winter scenes of show-covered paths and fields, in which these elements…