Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2012

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres portrait

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    Following up on my recent Eye Candy post about an Ingres graphite portrait, I couldn’t help but think of this well known and beautiful portrait painting. Comtesse d’Haussonville, by Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, on Google Art Project. Use controls at lower right to zoom in. Note the way he has carefully handled the reflection of the back…

  • Nagai Hideyuki

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    Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki has created a fun series of drawings that span two sketchbooks propped at 90° to one another, and when viewed from the proper angle, give the illusion of continuous three dimensionality. You can see a selection on his website and on his deviantART page. There is a video on YouTube that…

  • Charles Courtney Curran (update)

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    When I wrote about the lyrical paintings of Charles Courtney Curran back in 2007 I mentioned being disappointed at the small amount of his work available on the web. Since then the web has continued to expand, bless it’s silicon heart, and more resources for Curran’s idyllic scenes of women in gardens, hanging clothes and…

  • Erik D. Martin

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    Erik D. Martin is a visual development artist based in Los Angeles and currently working for Disney Interactive. His past clients include Nickelodeon Animation, Hasbro Animation, Disney Imagineering and Jim Henson, among others, He also contributed work as a color artists on Kazu Kbuishi’s beautiful Amulet graphic novel project. Martin has the kind of springy,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Winter View by Charles Leickert

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    If you’re on the east coast of the U.S. it’s a little warm today. Cool off with “Winter View” by 19th century Dutch artist Charles Leickert. From this past exhibit at Rijksmuseum.

  • C.F. Payne (update)

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    With a terrific skill for caricature, a flair for whimsy and superb draftsmanship and technique, C.F. Payne has long been recognized as one of America’s foremost contemporary illustrators. His clients include Time, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Esquire, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly and a wonderful series of covers for…