Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2013

  • Steve Smulka

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    Interestingly, the galleries of paintings on Steve Smulka’s website are divided into two sections: Women and Glass. Though seemingly disparate subjects, the relationship becomes more apparent when you observes his fascination with the way light affects both kinds of compositions. Light is transmitted and refracted through his glass objects, which include heavy jars and bottles…

  • Andrew Borg

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    Andrew Borg is a artist based in Malta, where he portrays that island nation’s Mediterranean sunlight in bright plein air watercolors. You can see in his approach his admiration for watercolor masters like John Singer Sargent. On Borg’s website you will find his portrayals of Malta’s dramatic rocky landscapes, formal gardens, sunlit streets, churches, and…

  • Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney at NHIA

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    Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that James Gurney is one of my favorite contemporary illustrators, as well as being a superb landscape painter and the author of several books on art technique. Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney is an exhibition that opens today at the New Hampshire Institute of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Hassam’s Rainy Day

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    Rainy Day, Boston, Childe Hassam. “American Impressionism” (i.e. painterly realism) in the hands of one of its foremost proponents. On Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art.

  • illustrators magazine

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    illustrators is a new quarterly illustration art magazine from the UK. For those familiar with magazines like ImageS, Illustration and illo (links to my posts), this is a welcome addition to the small range of quarterly publications dedicated to showcasing illustration, both contemporary and classic. In this case it is with a UK and European…

  • Stephen Gilpin

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    Stephen Gilpin is a Kansas based illustrator whose clients include Harper Collins, Random House, Simon and Schuster, Scholastic and the Wall Street Journal. He has a fresh, crisp, cartoon illustration style well suited to his work in children’s book illustration. He strikes a nice balance between rendering and flatter areas of color, while keeping the…