Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2016

  • Thomas Fluharty

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    After an extensive career as an illustrator and storyboard artist, Thomas Fluharty has turned his focus to personal projects, often applying his classical art training to painted caricatures of pop culture icons. As you explore his website, you’ll find other series, including wonderfully expressive dogs and nicely nasty sharks. You can also find a selection…

  • Alexander Zavarin

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    Alexander Zavarin is a painter currently living and working in Moscow. Zavarin often works in a highly textural style, with thick paint application and physical textures contributing to the overall look and appeal of his paintings. It looks as though much is done with painting knives, but I don’t actually have any information about his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Leighton’s Winding the Skein

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    Winding the Skein, Lord Frederic Leighton Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. I think the Google Art Project version — and the downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons — are too warm and saturated. The…

  • Richard Doyle

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    Richard “Dickie” Doyle was a Victorian illustrator and cartoonist, known for his work as a fairy story illustrator and as a cartoonist for Punch, the seminal British humor magazine, for which he designed the masthead. Doyles fantasy illustrations, done in ink and watercolor, were colorful and often richly textural. They were innocently charmingly with an…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Willem Claesz Heda’s Banquet Piece with Mince Pie

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    Banquet Piece with Mince Pie, Willem Claesz Heda Oil on canvas, roughly 56 x 58 inches (143 x 147 cm). In the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version. The largest downloadable version (which requires a free sign-in account) is 4000 pixels wide and 20 MB in file size.…

  • Howard Friedland

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    Originally from New York, Howard Friedland is a painter living and working in Bozeman, Montana. In addition to finding subjects in the area where he lives, Friedland has traveled and painted across the U.S. as well as in Europe and China. His approach is boldly painterly, his confident brush marks describing his subjects with geometric…