Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2014

  • The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free

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    The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free is an exhibition at the Tate Britain in London, that explores the later, sometimes controversial, work of brilliant British painter J.M.W. Turner. Some of the work was controversial in Turner’s experimental approach to composition, rendering, and portrayal of light, notably the further dissolution of form into…

  • Jaemin Kim

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    Jaemin Kim is a concept artist working in the video game industry and specializing in creature concept design. His wonderful digital rendering of detailed skin texture, leathery wings and rough scales make his dragons and dragon-like creatures particularly well-realized. His website leads to a gallery on CGHub, and his blog features lots of sketches. Kim…

  • Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (update)

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    Dutch-born 19th century painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema spent the majority of his highly successful career in England, where his meticulously crafted depictions of decadent luxury cast in the settings of classical antiquity were in high demand. Alma-Tadema was one of the most highly regarded Victorian painters of the time, and was tremendously influential on other…

  • Alex Ruiz

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    Alex Ruiz is a concept artist and illustrator working in the film television and video game industries. Much of his character work is intentionally dark, but the pieces I find of most interest are his environments and imaginative experiments. In these, his digital paintings often have a fascinating character combining biomorphic, architectonic and mechanical forms,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou genre scene

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    Girl Chopping Onions, Gerrit Dou On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Royal Collection Trust, UK.

  • Colin Fraser

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    Originally from Scotland and now living and working in southern Sweden, Colin Fraser paints his luminous still life, landscape and figurative subjects in the painstaking medium of egg tempera. Fraser’s dedication to egg tempera is notable given the time consuming nature of the medium and the scale at which he works. Almost all of Fraser’s…