Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2014

  • Nigel Buchanan

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    Nigel Buchanan is an Australian illustrator based in Sydney, whose clients include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Time magazine, among others. His illustrations are created in a broad range of degrees of stylization and conceptual abstraction, but are always delivered with considerable graphic punch. Buchanan knows how to use both muted,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thaulow’s river

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    River, Frits Thaulow On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Bergen Kunstmuseum. I just love the way Thaulow handles the depiction of water, particularly the surface of small streams. I can’t think of anyone who does it better. For more, see my previous posts on Frits Thaulow.

  • Walton Ford

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    Walton Ford is a well known American contemporary artist based in New York. His large scale watercolor and gouache paintings take inspiration from the intricately detailed paintings by 19th century naturalists like John James Audubon. Walton takes that genre’s conventions as a launching point for his excursions into oblique cultural and historic commentary on colonialism,…