Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2013

  • Eye Candy for today: Ingle watercolor

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    Still Life with Brass Candlestick, John Stuart Ingle — watercolor on paper, 29×42″ (75x107cm). A beautiful bit of watercolor realism by contemporary American artist John Stuart Ingle. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use the Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.

  • Dominick Saponaro

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    Dominick Saponaro is an illustrator based here in Philadelphia, whose clients include Simon & Schuster, Holiday House, The Science Fiction Book Club, Solaris Books, and Bethlehem books. When I first viewed his online portfolio, I was struck by a number of digitally painted works in grayscale, reminiscent both in that respect, and in the subject…

  • John Joseph Enneking

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    Born in Ohio, American painter Jon Joseph Enneking studied in Boston and in Europe where he felt the influence of the Fontainebleu painters, and later Edouard Manet and the Impressionists. In Paris, he had the opportunity to study with Charles-Francois Daubigny and Leon Bonnnat. Enneking settled in Massachusetts where he devoted himself largely to landscapes…

  • Eye Candy for Today: De Hooch courtyard

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    A Musical Party in a Courtyard, Pieter de Hooch In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. Another of De Hooch’s wonderful explorations of space and light, into which we are irresistibly drawn. Here, De Hooch invites us into a foreground space that, at first glance,…