Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2015

  • Alina Chau (update)

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    Alina Chau is a painter, illustrator and animation artist whose whimsical images are rendered in lively applications of watercolor. Her work includes elements of children’s book illustration, concept design, naturalistic painting, stylized design elements and the influence of traditional Chinese ink painting. I particularly enjoy the way she incorporates design elements, textures and patterns into…

  • Eye Candy for Today: William Logsdail’s St Martin in the Fields

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    St Martin in the Fields, William Logsdail Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Tate Britain. I love the atmosphere in this painting of London’s Trafalgar Square by Victorian painter William Logsdail — the wetness of the stone, the textures of fabrics, and the…

  • Emmanuel Shiu

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    Emmanuel Shiu is a concept artist and designer for the film and gaming industries, whose clients include SOny Pictures, Universal, Disney, Paramount and Warner Brothers, among others. His images often combine high fantasy, futuristic cityscapes and high-tech environments with a feeling of tactile and sometimes gritty reality. I enjoy the way he can suggest immense…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Henri Rousseau’s Carnival Evening

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    Carnival Evening, Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau Zoomable image on Google Art Project; high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When I was younger, I had a poster of this painting on my apartment wall, and I still enjoy its presence here in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rousseau is often considered…

  • Paul Dmoch

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    Paul Dmoch is a Belgian painter whose watercolors are playgrounds of light. In them, light sparkles, bounces, glows, splinters and plays hide and seek amid the complexities of cathedral interiors, Venetian canals, narrow streets, dappled courtyards, open plazas and architectural landmarks of several cities. Light is an actor in his paintings, alternately coy and bold,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frank Dicksee’s The Two Crowns

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    The Two Crowns, Frank Dicksee Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate Britain. In a turn of the 20th century painting of a Medieval scene, the crown of a king is seen in a different light when he is struck with the…