Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2013

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jongkind’s Quai d’Orsay

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    View from the Quai d’Orsay, Johan Barthold Jongkind. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” and use zoom or download arrow. What might appear, in its wonderful painterly immediacy, to have been painted by a contemporary plein air master, was in fact painted in the mid 1800’s. Jongkind, a Dutch painter who spent…

  • Tomislav Tomić

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    Tomislav Tomić is an illustrator from Croatia whose illustrations carry influences of both Golden Age illustration and Renaissance printmaking. Tomić works with technical pens (Rotring Isographs), adding color for some pieces with colored inks, watercolor and occasionally acrylics. There is a recent feature on his tools on The Tools Artists Use, which is where I…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s Oak Grove

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    Oak Grove, Ivan Shishkin. On Wikipaintings. Large version here. Original is in the Kiev National Museum of Russian Art. See my previous Eye Candy post of a Shishkin forest scene (presumably in the same oak forest) and my post on Ivan Shishkin.

  • Massimo Carnevale movie portraits

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    As I reported back in 2011, Italian illustrator and comics artist Massimo Carnevale has for some time been posting to his blog, Sketches’natched, a series of his interpretations of various movies (and occasionally tv series). These are apparently done for fun, and it’s fascinating how he pics elements from the movies that, while characteristic of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Boldini’s Table

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    Corner of Painter’s Table, Giovanni Boldini On Wikipaintings, high-res version here. Perhaps not the best reproduction, with light reflecting off the surface, but what a bizarre and wonderful composition. I don’t know the location of the original. See my post on Giovanni Boldini.

  • Glenn Dean (update)

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    I first wrote about California artist Glenn Dean in 2010. Since then he has continued to add to his website portfolio more examples of his subtle, atmospheric evocations of the American West and the California coastline. His work is featured in a new solo show at the Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Culver City, CA, titled…