Month: January 2014
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Eye Candy for today: Rembrandt’s Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn OK, so the defecating dog was a source of some amusement back in art school, but once you get past that, this etching is just mind-bogglingly superb — a tour-de-force of drawing and the mediums of etching and drypoint. This was made after one of Rembrandt’s own paintings (though…
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Thomas Paquette: On Nature’s Terms
Thomas Paquette is a painter from western Pennsylvania, whose work I have showcased before here on Lines and Colors, and who remains a personal favorite among contemporary landscape painters. Paquette’s landscapes not only have a beautiful sense of color and light, but they are painted with a particularly appealing quality of edges. There is something…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gruelle landscape
The Canal Morning Effect, Richard Bruckner Gruelle On Google Art Project. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Skottie Young
Skottie Young is an illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist whose clients include Marvel Comics, Warner Brothers, Image Comics, Upper Deck, Mattel and others. Young has a wonderfully lively style that almost vibrates off the page with manic energy and cartoony exuberance. He is noted in particular for his work on various Marvel characters, projects with…
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A few more from John Singer Sargent
Not that I really need a reason other than my usual slack-jawed admiration, but today is John Singer Sargent’s birthday, so here are a few of the hundreds of beautiful presents he left for us.
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Duncan Fegredo
British comics artist Duncan Fegredo has worked on a number of projects for DC Comics, Dark Horse and Fleetway, but is best known for his work on Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. Fegredo’s current website is largely devoted to original art and prints of individual illustrations featuring characters from the series. These are beautifully done in ink…