Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2008

  • Cecilia Beaux

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    I think of portrait painting as being exceptionally demanding. If you paint an image of a tree, and it doesn’t look accurately like a specific tree, no one will notice as long as it looks correct as a tree. Human beings, however, have an extraordinary facility (probably genetically hardwired) to recognize and understand the human…

  • Timothy Bush

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    Timothy Brush is a children’s book illustrator originally from Pennsylvania and, after living in Illinois, Ohio and Texas as well as Vienna, Rome and the Greek Islands, is now settled in New York City. Bush studied literature in college and is self-taught as an artist. He points out (jokingly, I hope) that he is “completely…

  • The Face of Leonardo?

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    It has long been assumed that the red chalk drawing shown above is a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. It certainly looks like what we expect or want the great Renaissance artist to look like, his penetrating deep-set eyes gazing out at us from distant past, weighted with the perhaps painful wisdom of great insight…

  • Barrett Bailey

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    Barrett Bailey is an Alabama artist working in the classical realist tradition. Though you will find small still life paintings and an occasional landscape in his online galleries, Bailey is primarily a figure and portrait artist. The Paintings section of his site includes paintings in a range of sizes and degrees of finish, from small…

  • Marco Sassone

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    I have to say that I don’t normally respond well to paintings in which representational imagery has been “pushed” stylistically to the point where it borders on being non-representational. Contemporary artists often lose me at that juncture. There seems to be a point where it becomes boring for me, and I seldom follow artists who…

  • Bobby Chiu

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    Bobby Chiu is a Canadian illustrator and concept designer who also teaches digital painting, both at Seneca College School of Communication Arts and online through the web-based Schoolism. Chiu shares the Imaginism Studios web site with illustrator Kei Acedera, and also collaborates with her on various works. The Imaginism portfolio can be viewed by work…