Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2014

  • Ryan Gitter

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    Texas based concept artist Ryan Gitter works in both traditional and digital media. His work often combines strongly geometric elements with crisply defined edges, contrasted with a atmospheric passages in which edges become gradually lost. He also contrasts areas of low chroma color with accents of bright, intense color for dramatic effect. [Via Concept Art…

  • Tom Roberts

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    Born in England in the middle of the 19th century, Tom Roberts moved to Australia with his parents when he was 13, and became one of Australia’s most prominent artists. Roberts, with his good friend Frederick McCubbin and several other artists, notably Walter Withers and Arthur Streeton, formed the core group of artist known as…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Peploe’s Black Bottle

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    The Black Bottle, Samuel John Peploe Link is to Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Galleries Scotland. Wonderfully fluid and economical handling of this table setting subject by Scottish painter Samuel Peploe. It carries a feeling of the still life work of Manet, who was likely…

  • Liz Haywood-Sullivan

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    Liz Haywood-Sullivan is a pastel painter who creates landscapes and cityscapes with an eye to the vibrant color and graphic textural qualities the medium makes available. Depending on size and subject matter, her approach can either be more refined or more sketch-like, with an emphasis on that fascinating area where the qualities of pastel cross…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Sassoferrato’s Virgin in Prayer

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    The Virgin in Prayer, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato This beautiful painting is in the National Gallery, London, where is is currently part of their exhibition on painting materials, Making Color. This is primarily because of the artist’s use of genuine Ultramarine Blue in the robes. Before the formulation of the modern synthetic version, French…

  • Stephan Martiniere (update 2014)

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    I first wrote about illustrator and concept artist Stephan Martiniere back in 2006 and followed with an update post in 2008. Since then, Martiniere has updated his website and posted lots of new and wonderful goodies. The problem with doing a post about Martiniere is choosing images for the post, or more specifically, being able…