Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2015

  • Agim Sulaj

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    Originally from Albania and now based in Itally, Agim Sulaj is a realist painter who also does award-winning editorial cartoons and illustrations. The galleries on the artist’s website are divided between paintings and illustrations and cartoons. Sulaj’s paintings are in oil and often large in scale; his illustrations and cartoons are in acrylic, tempera and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Cremorne pastoral

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    Cremorne pastoral, Arthur Streeton Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Another beautifully painterly and economical landscape by brilliant Australian painter Arthur Streeton.

  • McLean Kendree

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    McLean Kendree is an illustrator and concept artist who has worked with companies like THQ, Hasbro and 38 Studios, and is currently with Massive Black in San Fransicso. Kendree’s website and Tumblog include examples of his digitally painted professional work and personal projects, along with traditional media drawings and paintings from life, as well as…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam gouache study

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    Columbian Exposition, Chicago; Childe Hassam Gouache on tan paper, 10 5/8 x 14 in. (27.0 x 35.6 cm). Image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Almost monochromatic — though the tan paper and the use of blue give it a sensation of subtle color —this study…

  • Nicolas Martin

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    While many painters chase the character of light in the landscape, French painter Nicolas Martin more often seeks out the elusive qualities of artificial light in night-darkened streets and filtered sunlight in curtained interiors. His figures are revealed in the light, either as direct portraits or smaller within the context of the composition. Martin studied…

  • Vladimir Stankovic

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    Originally from Serbia, illustrator and designer Vladimir Stankovic is currently based in Denmark. Stankovic’s fascinatingly textural style, rendered in muted colors and close value relationships, often deals with a bizarre bestiary, consisting of fantastical land animals, insects and sea creatures. Among the projects on his sites are subtle animated GIFs and images of a pop-up…