Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2015

  • Thomas Stoop

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    Thomas Stoop is a freelance concept artist from the Netherlands who works in a textural brushy style of digital painting, with softly muted palettes that give his compositions an nice sense of atmospheric perspective. The images on his website and ArtStation portfolio are mostly of personal work that showcases his abilities; the ones on ArtStation…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Helen Searle still life

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    Still Life with Fruit and Champagne, Helen Searle In the Smithsonian American Art Museum; there is a somewhat larger version of the image on Wikimedia Commons, but it’s unfortunately not well focused. Careful you don’t get stung reaching for a grape.

  • Matthew Cornell

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    There is something special about twilight; the transitional period between day and night can also be a metaphor for the transition between consciousness and sleep, past and present, the remembered and forgotten. Like the state between waking and sleep, twilight can also be a period in which two different states coexist, the fading but still…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Henriette Browne’s Girl Writing

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    A Girl Writing; The Pet Goldfinch, Henriette Browne Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. [Correction: the original is in the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, Costume, Play and Learn Gallery, which is either…

  • Gari Melchers

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    Gari Melchers was an American artist, born in Detroit, who studied in Germany and France in the late 19th century, and settled for a time in Holland. He eventually returned to the US, lived and worked in New York for several years, and eventually retired to Virginia. His estate in Virginia, Belmont, is now a…

  • Japanese prints from the Met via Ukiyo-e Search

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    This week is one of the weeks designated two times a year as “Asia Week New York” by the Japanese Art Dealers Association, during which a number of galleries, auction houses and museums make a point of having relevant exhibits. Rather than feature images from temporary exhibits, I’m focusing here on a specific ongoing source…