Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2014

  • Eye Candy for Today: Abraham Mignon still life

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    Still Life with Fruit and a Cup on Cock’s Legs, Abraham Mignon In the Rijksmuseum. Ostensibly a still life, Mignon’s not-so-still composition is actually teeming with insect, arachnid and mollusk life, in addition to the beautifully rendered plant forms and man made objects — not to mention the cock’s leg base for the decorative cup…

  • Scott Pollack

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    Editorial illustrator Scott Pollack works in a rendered watercolor cartoon style, and is noted in particular for his covers for Barron’s magazine, for which he (somehow) keeps coming up with fresh takes on the iconic bull and bear symbols of Wall Street’s manic swings. [Via The iSpot]

  • Elzie Golden

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    Elzie Ray Golden studied at the School of Visual Art in NY and the University of Arizona. During his military service he was a soldier-artist, documenting his experiences and eventually training other soldier-artists and joint services multimedia illustrators. I can only find a few sources for his work, and no information about him post military…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Whittredge’s Trout Pool

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    The Trout Pool, Worthington Whittredge In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the younger generation of the Hudson River School painters, Whittredge often favored intimate forest scenes as much as large dramatic landscapes. Here, through the framing device of the dark mature trees, their leafy canopy and the fallen log, we are invited to…

  • Richard Anderson

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    Like a stage magician, concept artist and illustrator Richard Anderson deals in suggestion and illusion. With an adept skill for suggesting complexity within simplicity, Anderson pulls from his arrays of geometric, semi-abstract forms the essence of an image, leaving your own imagination to fill in with details that don’t actually exist in the original. His…

  • How It’s Made — Oil Paints

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    Someone has posted to YouTube a short (four minute) segment from the Discovery Channel about how commercial oil paints are formulated and manufactured. I don’t know how old this video is — it looks like it’s from a while back — still interesting, though. It should be noted that this is about a large art…