Month: December 2013
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Eye Candy for Today: Caillebotte’s rooftops in snow
Rooftop View (Snow effect), Gustave Caillebotte On the Google Art Project. Original is in the Musée d’Orsay. There is also a high res image (7.7mb) and short article on Wikipedia. One of my favorite paintings. By anyone. Ever. You’ll see versions of this image on the web, or even in print, in which the color…
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Eugène Grasset
Eugène Grasset was a Swiss illustrator, poster artist, sculptor and designer who was instrumental in the creation of the Art Nouveau style. Though not well known in the U.S. today, his poster art, in particular, was was very popular here in the late 19th century. In addition to his own work, Grasset was an influential…
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Self-portraits #6 ("maybe selfies")
Here are a few images that, for one or more reasons, have been suggested to be presumed, probable or possible self-portraits of artists for whom there is a shortage of definitive ones. To me, there is often a certain look in the eyes of a self-portrait — one that I think comes from the mental…
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Venice
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, Joseph Mallord William Turner Another of Turner’s magically luminous excursions into Venice. Turner gives us three worlds here — the city and sky, the reflections in the water, and the surface of the water. Look at what he does with the shadows of of unseen objects in the…
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David Larned
David Larned is a portrait artist, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, who also paints still life and landscape. Larned uses a restrained palette, and often a restrained range of values, giving his work a strong feeling of harmony. In his portraits, which range from formal and corporate to informal and family oriented, he seems to…
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James Gurney's How I Paint Dinosaurs
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I’m an admirer of the work of illustrator and painter James Gurney. I also love dinosaurs and paleontological art, an area in which Gurney is one of the foremost artists working today, so I was delighted to receive a review copy of Gurney’s instructional DVD…