Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2014

  • Ken Knight

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    Ken Knight is an Australian plein air painter who paints with superb economy, rich color and a beautifully textural surface, for which the word “painterly” seems inadequate. Though it’s difficult to see in small reproductions, in larger images, his brush marks flow, scrape, jitter and dash across the surface — defining forms, carving out depth…

  • Clint Cearley

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    Clint Cearley is a freelance illustrator based in Fort Worth, Texas who trained in traditional media, but now works digitally. His website showcases his work for projects like Magic: The Gathering for Wizards of the Coast and Legend of the Cryptids for Applibot, as well as personal projects. Cearley sometimes utilizes a format often found…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eckersberg’s view through arches of the Colosseum

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    A View through Three Arches of the Third Storey of the Colosseum, C.W. Eckersberg On Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst, which has a very large, but over saturated, downloadable file of the image. While in Rome in the early 19th century, Eckersberg…

  • Samuel Peploe

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    In the course of a career that bridged the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Scottish painter Samuel John Peploe moved his style from more straightforward realism into a painterly Manet-like approach — particularly to still life — that was marked by a striking economy and brushy, calligraphic paint marks; then to a flattened, boldly…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Qui Ying landscape

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    Fishing under Chinese Sweet Gums, Qui Ying On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Hunan Provincial Museum (“Painting of Fishing by the Brook”).

  • Ty Carter

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    Tyler Carter is concept and visual development artist, originally from Utah. While he was still in school, he interned at Disney Feature Animation and Pixar Animation Studios. On graduation, he began working with Blue Sky Studios, where he has worked on projects like Ice Age 4 and Epic, and is currently working on their new…