Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2006

  • Edmund Blair Leighton

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    There’s just something about knights in armor, fair maidens in sweeping dresses and rough castle walls draped with tapestries that makes for wonderful images; from the finely wrought paintings of the Victorian era through the dramatic illustrations of Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth to highly finessed digital renderings of modern fantasy illustrators. Edmind Blair Leighton…

  • Anne Sudworth

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    From yesterday’s post about the magic of sunlight interacting with objects, we move into a different kind of magical light, the enchanted light in the mystical paintings of British fantasy artist Ann Sudworth. Her intricately detailed pastel paintings often feature night scenes in which multiple or individual trees are sharply illuminated by a mysterious light…

  • Neil Hollingsworth

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    One of the wonderful things about light, for those of us who are constantly fascinated by it, is the way it bounces around, changing and being changed by the objects it encounters. I have to admit to a particular fascination with curved reflective surfaces and transparent objects, so Neil Hollingsworth, who paints both of these…

  • Kean Soo

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    Jellaby is a web comics story by Kean Soo about a precocious but lonely little girl named Portia who finds a purple monster, also apparently lonely and alienated, in the woods behind her home. She befriends, and in turn is befriended by, the monster, perhaps in light of the famous quote from Shakespeares’s Portia that…

  • The Ambassadors
    (Hans Holbein the Younger)

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    Many artists of note have “stand-out” works – paintings, drawings or other works that rise to the top of their oeuvre and serve as the work associated with their name. Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Ambassadors not only fits that distinction, but stands out as one of the most enigmatic and unusual paintings in the…

  • Howard Pyle

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    If we look at art over the course of time, we see an intricate web of the influences of one artist on another; influences that, in their crossings and re-crossings, eventually weave the tapestry of styles that we call art history. Howard Pyle, who is often rightly called “The Father of American Illustration”, is one…