Lines and Colors art blog

Month: June 2015

  • Mary Jane Ansell (update)

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    Mary Jane Ansell, a UK painter who I first featured in 2013, is now represented here in the US by Arcadia Contemporary in New York. Her elegantly refined portraits — primarily of young women — reveal their subjects in nuanced touches of diffuse light. They usually carry an implied narrative element, adding depth and a…

  • Charles Newman

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    Based in New Jersey, in the Philadelphia region, Charles Newman had my attention immediately with his portrayal of chairs on rooftops in the city (images above, top), an image that so strongly reminds me of my top-floor Walnut street apartment when I was an art student it’s uncanny. Newman’s appeal goes much farther for me…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Almeida Júnior’s Saudade

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    Saudade (Longing), José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a very high resolution downloadable file (138MB) on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (no good images). The subject of a young woman reading a letter, with either…

  • Olivia Knapp

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    Olivia Knapp is an artist based in Washington State who transitioned from work as a textile designer to full time pursuit of her pen and ink drawing. Knapp takes inspiration for her engraving-like approach to pen and ink —often done with Pigma Micron markers — from the classical styles of the baroque masters ink drawing…

  • Evariste Carpentier

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    Belgian painter Evariste Carpentier started in an academic style. During his time in France, he was infulenced by the French Realists, the naturalism of painters like Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jules Breton, the Barbizon painters and the move toward what would become Impressionism and eventually, Luminisim. In many of his stylistic experiments, he was undoubtedly influenced…

  • Juan Pablo Roldán

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    Juan Pablo Roldán is a freelance concept artist and illustrator, based in Medellin, Columbia, who works in the gaming and film industries. Roldán’s atmospheric environments and menacing characters are rendered digitally with an eye to theatrically dramatic value relationships and with a skilled suggestion of texture, whether organic or technological. Among his personal projects you…