Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2012

  • Irena Roman

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    Irena Roman paints bright, crisp, transparent watercolors, both as illustrations and for gallery display. She particularly excels at the challenge of portraying the play of light across, through and around transparent or translucent objects and their often complex shadows. You can find a selection of her work on The iSpot, though the images a bit…

  • The Monster Engine (Dave DeVries)

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    The Monster Engine is a project by illustrator and comics artist Dave DeVries that originated in a simple concept. In looking through the drawings and doodles that his young niece had made in his sketchbooks, he wondered what it might look like if children’s drawings were finished off by an accomplished adult artist. Since then,…

  • John Singer Sargent on Met Museum website

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    Today is John Singer Sargent’s birthday. A search for his work on the wonderful, recently redesigned website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings up over 600 images. Yes, the iconic and astonishingly accomplished society portraits are well represented, and if you want to focus on those, you can limit your search to show only…

  • Patrick Woodroffe (update)

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    English artist and writer Patrick Woodroffe is self taught as an artist, having studied languages at the University of Leeds. He is noted for his illustrations for books and record album covers, basically in a fantasy vein, but with a unique approach and artistic roots in artists like Bosch and Bruegel as well as Surrealism…

  • Vermeer’s The Lacemaker

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    Because of his astonishing skill and the unfortunately small number of his known works, the enigmatic Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer probably has one of the highest masterpiece/oeuvre ratios in the history of art. Among Vermeer’s (and the art world’s) most notable masterpieces is a small jewel of a painting called The Lacemaker. It has on…

  • The 50 best comic covers of 2011 on Robot 6

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    Kevin Melrose, writing on the excellent comics blog Robot 6, part of the Comic Book Resources site, at the end of the year presents his list of the 50 best comic book covers of the year. Comic book covers occupy a particularly fascinating niche in publishing, inheriting some of the lurid, lure you in with…