Lines and Colors art blog

Month: July 2013

  • Hopper Drawing

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    Hopper Drawing is a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that pulls from a collection of over 2,500 drawings in the museum’s holdings, along with some of Hopper’s most iconic paintings, to examine both his process as a painter and his role as a draftsman. Though I have not yet…

  • Randy Gallegos

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    Randy Gallegos is an illustrator working in the realm of fantasy, largely for the gaming industry. In contrast to current trends, Gallegos prefers to work traditionally in oil whenever possible, though he can work digitally when the assignment requires it. He also uses digital media for preliminary sketches, though he also likes to work traditionally…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Purple And Rose

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    Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, James Abbott McNeill Whistler On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also visible as a single large image on Wikimedia Commons (5mb). Original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I stop to be stunned by this beautiful painting every time I visit the museum. I…

  • Laura Knight

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    Dame Laura Johnson Knight was a popular British artist known for her paintings of dancers, gypsies and circus performers, her wartime reportage, and her iconic painting of the Nuremburg Trials (images above, second from bottom), which she attended. Knight also painted landscapes and wonderfully incisive portraits. Knight, born Laura Johnson, had a mother whose own…

  • Karen X. Cheng learns to dance (and be a designer)

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    What does learning to dance in a year have to do with learning to draw or paint? A lot, I think. From Jason Kottke’s blog, I was introduced to this time compressed video of Karen Cheng learning to dance over the course of a year. She made the decision it was what she wanted to…

  • Sarah Lamb

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    There are times, of course, when paintings can be arresting because of their color and drama; there are also times when paintings can be striking because of their subtleties. The refined, intimate still life paintings of Sara Lamb are a case in point. Lamb uses a muted palette, carefully controlled value contrasts and deft variation…