Lines and Colors art blog

Month: March 2015

  • Sergey Kolesov

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    Sergey Kolesov is a concept artist based in Lyon, France, and currently working as senior concept artist for Arkane Studios. Kolesov juxtaposes passages of low and high chroma color, and makes use of textures and patterns to give his images a rich surface. You can see see of his professional work on his Behance portfolio,…

  • Bruce Cheever

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    After many years as a successful illustrator, Bruce Cheever changed his focus to gallery art, bringing his admiration for Renaissance art, American Tonalism, Luminism, and Western artists like Thomas Moran to his portrayals of the American West and Southwest, as well as his travels in Italy and other parts of Europe. Though sometimes bathed in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Piero di Cosimo’s Andromeda freed by Perseus

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    Andromeda fred by Perseus, Piero di Cosimo The link is to a version on Wikimedia Commons (note that the high-resolution file linked form that page is almost 30mb). There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. the original is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, but I can’t find an image on the official…

  • Lissy Marlin

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    Originally from the Dominican Republic, illustrator and visual development artist Lissy Marlin studied at the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia, and now resides in the U.S. Inspired by her love of animation, she has developed a lively, breezy style, with lots of springy curves and nice touches of linear and textural elements within…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Johannes Bosboom church interior

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    Southern aisle of the Great Church at The Hague, Johannes Bosboom In the Rijksmuseum; downloadable image also on Wikimedia Commons. The credits say “pencil, chalk and brush”, but it certainly looks like some watercolor to me. This is one of those drawing/painting combinations that is simultaneously loose and precise. There is also a beautifully subtle…

  • Jethro Knight

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    Contemporary British painter Jethro Knight takes delight in the sensual, visceral nature of thick paint. His plein air compositions often have a soft, almost tonalist feeling at times, but are rendered with marvelously textural slabs of color that define his forms in terms of their direction as well as their color. I particularly enjoy his…