Month: September 2011
-
Arcadia Fine Arts Small Works Show
Arcadia Fine Arts is a gallery in New York noted for its devotion to contemporary representational art. The represent a number of artists I have featured here on Lines and Colors. There current exhibition is The Small Works Show, a group show featuring several of the artists they represent, and a good opportunity to sample…
-
Cherries from Chauvet’s Orchard
Ruth Phillips is an English cellist living Provence, France. She is married to Julian Merrow-Smith, an artist I have written about previously. After Duane Keiser, Merrow-Smith is one of the earliest pioneers of the “painting a day” painter/blogger model of creating small daily paintings and offering them for sale over the internet. He also happens…
-
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
Edgar Degas, the member of the French Impressionist group who maintained traditional academic values more than the others, spent much of his career fascinated with the ballet dancers of the Paris Opera. He drew and painted them again and again, in the process creating some of his most memorable works, including the strikingly innovative pieces…
-
James Gurney on Gamut Masking
A gamut is a range of colors. More specifically it is a range of colors that can be created or reproduced on a particular device or with a certain set of beginning colors. Those working with print reproduction are very familiar with the concept of the CMYK gamut, or the range of colors that can…
-
Pochade boxes (updated)
Even though the end of the summer is rapidly approaching for those of us who live in then northern hemisphere, the time for plein air painting is hardly over; and many, myself included, find this time of year ideal for painting outdoors. In 2008 I wrote a rather extensive article on pochade boxes, those combinations…
-
Robert Tracy (update)
Robert Tracy is an artist I have written about previously. Tracy had not updated his website for some time, but recently added a number of older works he has made available for purchase. You can find even more of his work on his deviantART gallery, which contains an archive of pieces going back to 1965.…