Month: June 2019
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New Argon Zark! webcomic page
It’s not that often that I feature my own work on Lines and Colors, but this is special occasion for me. I’ve just posted the first new page to my webcomic, Argon Zark!, in quite some time. I’m really pleased to have the comic moving again, and looking forward to continuing the story. (It will…
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James McIntosh Patrick
James McIntosh Patrick was a Scottish painter active through much of the 20th century. Though he started as an etcher, and also painted portraits, he is known primarily for his landscape paintings of the Scottish countryside, both in watercolor and oil. His approach was often immediate and painterly but with rich textural detail and often…
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Les animaux tels qu’ils sont
Les animaux tels qu’ils sont, which Google translates as “The animals as they are” is a book published in France in 1959 that offers 90 plus examples of how to draw animals using simplified geometric forms. Someone has apparently determined that the book now falls in the public domain, as the pages are available in…
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Eye Candy for Today; Rembrandt landscape etching of trees, houses and tower
View of some houses with trees and a tower, Rembrandt van Rijn Etching and drypoint, roughly 5 x 12 inches (12 x 32 cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, which has a zoomable image on the website (also downloadble if you sign up for a free Rijksstudio account). This is one of my favorite…
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Alyssa Winans
Alyssa Winans is an illustrator and concept artist for the gaming industry based in the San Francisco area. She is also a Google Doodle artist. Winans often uses restrained palettes, along with subtle graphic and textural elements, to give her subjects presence and focus. I enjoy the way she controls her values in textural passages,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Willem Kalf Still Life with Ewer and Basin, Fruit, Nautilus Cup and other Objects
Still Life with Ewer and Basin, Fruit, Nautilus Cup and other Objects, Willem Kalf Oil on canvas, roughly 44 x 33 inches (111 x 84 cm); in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid, which has zoomable and downloadable versions of the image on their site. This is another stunning gem by 17th century…