Month: January 2014
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Alexandre-François Desportes
French painter Alexandre-François Desportes (sometimes, just “François Desportes”), who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, specialized in animals and still life. He often combined the two in the kind of still life that featured game along with fruits and other objects. Some of these were arranged as elaborate tableaux, combined interior…
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Magpie
The Magpie, Claude Monet Beautifully direct and painterly, The Magpie is the best known of Monet’s numerous snow scenes. On Google Art Project, also in high-res on Wikimedia Commons (4.7mb). Original is in the Musée d’Orsay.
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Review of Lines and Colors on Making a Mark
Katherine Tyrrell has posted a glowing and thoughtful review of Lines and Colors on her long running and highly regarded blog Making A Mark. In addition to being a prolific blogger, Tyrrell is also an artist, who I profiled in 2008. As part of her annual posts on art blogs, the “Making A Mark Art…
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The Flight, Inbal Breda
The Flight is a beautiful animated short by Israeli concept artist and animator Inbal Breda, done as her graduation film for the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design this year. It obviously draws inspiration from, or is a homage to, Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Castle in the Sky, but Breda takes the notion her own way…
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Miles Hyman
Miles Hyman is an illustrator, comics artist and gallery artist. Originally from Vermont, he moved to France to study painting and drawing, and there began his career. He moved back to the U.S. for several years and then back to France, where he currently lives. His illustration clients include the New York Times, the Boston…
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Oops.
My apologies to those of you who have not been seeing updates for Lines and Colors since mid-December. I moved the site to a new server, and due to a technical glitch (a “short between the earphones”), those accessing the site as “www.linesandcolors.com” have not been seeing the updates, while those using just “linesandcolors.com” have…