Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2013

  • Eye Candy for Today: Caravaggio’s Medusa

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    Medusa, Cagavaggio Merisi On the Google Art Project. Click in the lower right of the image for zoom controls. The original is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Students of drawing and anatomy may feel, as I do, that the mouth of the Medusa is painted as if from a head that is facing the…

  • Linda Tracey Brandon

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    Linda Tracey Brandon is an Arizona based painter who works in portraiture, figurative subjects, landscape and still life. Work on her website is divided into those sections, along with a section of oil portrait sketches. You will also find sketches, works in progress and other related topics on Brandon’s blog. Her figurative work has an…

  • Steven J. Levin

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    Steven J. Levin is a contemporary American realist painter based in Minnesota. The galleries on his website are divided into Figures & Interiors and Still Life, though within those topics he works in a variety of subjects and approaches. There are often repeated themes, however, of restaurant, museum and poolroom interiors and still life arrangements…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jan van Scorel’s Maria Magdalena

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    Maria Magdalena, Jan van Scorel I love the textures throughout, and the small figures in the background landscape. In the Rijksmuseum. Use the zoom controls, or register for a RijksStudio account to download high-res images. (See my post on the New Rijksmuseum website.)

  • Mike Bear

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    Mike Bear is a concept artist, illustrator and comics artist. His clients include Rockstar Games, Hasbro, Devil’s Due Publishing, Royal Elastics, Lolapps, Inc., Popcap, and EA. Bear’s sketchblog includes some examples of his professional work but more often works in progress, personal flights of fancy, sketches, life drawings, and other graphic meanderings — a visual…

  • Edmund Charles Tarbell (update)

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    Edmund Charles Tarbell was the primary founder of the “Boston School” of American Impressionism, one of the most important of the painters called American Impressionists, and to my mind, one of the great American painters in general. Since I last wrote about Tarbell back in 2006, many more resources have become available for viewing his…