Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2006

  • invisibleman

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    invisibleman is a collaborative art blog where you’ll find a variety of art: drawings, paintings, sketches, cartoons, graphic design, illustrations and photographs, in a variety of media: pen, pencil, oil, watercolor, acrylic, print and digital, on a variety of surfaces: Moleskine pages, paper, canvas, posters, billboards, guitars and who knows what else, by a group…

  • Alfred Sisley

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    Along with Gustav Caillebotte Alfred Sisley is one of my two favorite “ignored” Impressionists. Sisley is usually lost in the glare surrounding Monet, the “star” of Impressionism, particularly since Sisley’s work at its most “Impressionistic” resembles a slightly anemic version of Monet’s prismatic marvels. Often referred to as “the English Impressionist” Sisley was actually born…

  • Masters of American Comics

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    In a joint exhibition at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey and the Jewish Museum in New York City, Masters of American Comics will present almost 600 works by some of the greats of the comics art form. The images shown here are not necessarily in the exhibit, I’ve just pulled them out as…

  • Carl Critchlow

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    I’m always fascinated to watch to watch artists develop, particularly if their style changes or evolves over time. Carl Critchlow is UK comics artist and illustrator who has a painting style that has that kind of grungy, textured look preferred by many who like science fiction and fantasy art that leans toward the grotesque and…

  • Bill Mather (update)

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    Bill Mather loves to draw and paint women. If that wasn’t obvious enough from the galleries on his site, he’s named his blog Painter of Women. I wrote about Mather in September of last year. Since then he has added to his online galleries and started a blog. The blog isn’t frequently updated, so you’ll…

  • Rhonda Nass

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    I came across Rhonda Nass on a site dedicated to botanical illustration and was struck by the textural qualities and dimensionality of her plant paintings. There isn’t any information about technique on her site, but I assume from the look of her paintings that she works from photographs in the studio, even utilizing the out…