Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2010

  • Postcard from Provence: Paintings by Julian Merrow-Smith

    Once upon a time, there was an English painter who moved to Provence, a part of southern France long associated with artists seeking the colors nature might reveal to them in the region’s legendary sunlight. This painter was not working in the time of the Barbizon School and the Impressionists, however, but in the blossoming…

  • Julie Heffernan

    Garlands of fruits, rendered with softly psychedelic colors; twisted networks of wiry limbs and roots, framed by lush tropical plants, luminous in distant mist; topographical cornucopias of formal gardens, resplendent on the surface of a globe, itself set in a magical walled garden; fruit laced bowers sheltering asexual twins; glowing indoor showers of jeweled raindrops;…

  • Sketch Theatre

    Sketch Theatre collects step-through demonstration videos of artists from comics, film and game design, animation and related fields. Created by Alex Alvarez, founder and director of the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and the Gnomon Workshop, and produced by Lily Feliciano, Sketch Theater allows artists in these fields to give quick instructional demonstrations that pass…

  • Mary Sprague

    Aside from the human figure, trees are some of the natural forms artists find most interesting, and they have been drawn and painted in a myriad ways. St Louis artist Mary Sprague creates ink drawings, sometimes in colors, often monochromatic, in which delicate sprays of line and hatching coalesce to create her tree forms. When…

  • Robert J. Barber

    Painter Robert J. Barber lists his inspirations as including Joaquín Sorolla, John Singer Sargent and Diego Velázquez (a superb short list); and you can see the influence of the first two in particular in both his figurative and landscape paintings, which emphasize fresh, clear color choices and expressive brushwork. Personally, I also see echoes of…

  • William Stout: Hallucinations

    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I have long been an admirer of the work of William Stout. Stout is well know as a paleontological artist, film concept designer, illustrator and comics artist. His style ranges as widely as his areas of endeavor, but I take particular pleasure in his ink…