Month: May 2014
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Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Walk
Walk (Road of the Farm Saint-Siméon), Claude Monet and Studio in the rue de Furstenberg, Frédéric Bazille As much as I admire Claude Monet at the height of his mature style, I particularly enjoy his early work, in which he combines the painterly immediacy of the plein air pioneers of the Barbizon school with a…
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Parka Blogs’ art tools and gears
I’ve written before about a blog called The Tools Artists Use, which is based on the excellent concept of asking various illustrators and other artists about their primary working tools. The Tools Artists Use blog is taking a break, but the most recent post points out that Teoh Yi Chie of Parka Blogs (which I…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adrianus Eversen street scene
Amsterdam Street Scene, Adrianus Eversen In the National Gallery of Art, DC. I just love late-18th, early 19th century Dutch townscapes. They’re wonders of texture. Eversen’s are looser and more painterly than most.
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More graphite drawings from the Met
As I pointed out in my post on the same subject from March 30 of this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a treasure trove of drawings in its extensive collections, most of which are rarely seen because of the fragile nature of drawings and their susceptibility to light damage. The…
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As I was saying, before we were so rudely interrupted…
My apologies to those who have had trouble accessing Lines and Colors over the last few days. The site has been experiencing a technical issue that caused those who were accessing the home page with a “www” in the URL to encounter a database error message. Though the underlying issue isn’t thoroughly resolved, there is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Courbet flowers
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, Gustave Courbet On Google Art Project. Original is in the Getty Museum, which offers a 13mb high-resolution file. The version of the Google Art Project file available on Wikimedia Commons is almost absurdly gigantic, at 7,000×9,500 pixels and 30mb in file size — just in case you want to…