Month: March 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard chalk drawing
Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautiful drawing by the 18th century French painter, and a wonderful example of the expressive possibilities for creating naturalistic portraits and figures in the “trois crayon” method of using three chalks — red, black…
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Emmanuel Malin (update)
Emmanuel Malin is an illustrator, art director and concept artist for the gaming industry based in Paris. I initially profiled Malin here on Lines and Colors back in 2010. Malin creates fascinatingly textural images with layers of shapes within larger shapes defining his compositions. He works with both bright and muted color palettes, often contrasting…
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Antti Rautiola
Antti Rautiola is a painter and art director living in Helinski, Finland. On his website and his blog you will find examples of his work in plein air landscape and studio paintings, including paintings of his family. On his blog, in particular, you will find larger versions of his paintings, showing his loose, confident brushwork.…
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Eye Candy for Today: three Howard Pyle drawings
Today marks the birthday of the great American painter, illustrator and master of pen and ink, Howard Pyle. These three drawings, illustrations for one of Pyle’s own books, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has high-resolution images of them. I’ve provided the titles and links to the images on the…
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Anders Zorn: some highlights
In my previous post on the brilliant Swedish painter Anders Zorn here on Lines and Colors, I concentrated on the exhibition currently at the National Academy Museum in New York (until May 18, 2014). I wanted to follow up with a more general selection of some of Zorn’s wonderfully painterly works, and some general resources…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bernard Hall still life
After Dinner, Bernard Hall Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project. Downloadable high-resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Any one of the smaller groupings here would have made a superb still life — the bowl and lemon, the decanter and creamer, the teacup and apertif…