Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2013

  • Self-portraits #5

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    How wonderful and strange these all are! (Images above: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Lucian Freud, Judith Leyster, Thomas Eakins, Howard Chandler Christy, Ila Schütz, Jan Lievens, Paul Cézanne)

  • Tezh Modarressi

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    The usual litany of painting genres goes: “portraits, figurative, landscape and still life”, and brushes over the unfairly neglected subject of room interiors. Tezh Modarressi, originally from Baltimore and now based in Philadelphia, is an artist who takes room interiors as her primary subject. She seeks out old buildings and portrays their weathered, textural surfaces…

  • Digital portrait time-lapse by Kyle Lambert

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    Illustrator, visual development artist and digital painter Kyle Lambert has posted a nice time-lapse video of his process in painting a digital portrait of actor Morgan Freeman, using an iPad and the Procreate painting app. [Via Daring Fireball]

  • Eye Candy for Today: Cole's Youth

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    The Voyage of Life: Youth, Thomas Cole On Wikimedia Commons, with link to a higher-resolution image and images of the other three paintings in Cole’s The Voyage of Life series. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C., which has a description of the work as well as the others in the series.