Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2015

  • Robert Hope

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    Scottish painter Robert Hope was active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries. He studied at the Edinburgh School of Design and in Paris at the Académie Julian. Beyond that, I can find little information and only a few sources of images. Hope created painterly landscapes and compositions of young women in clothes of…

  • Nelson Shanks, 1937-2015

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    Nelson Shanks was a highly regarded painter or portraits, still life and landscape; noted in particular for his portraits of such figures as Luciano Pavarotti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Princess Diana, Pope John Paul II and U.S. Presidents Regan and Clinton. Nelson Shanks died yesterday, August 28, 2015 at the age of 77. I won’t go into…

  • Sam Nielson

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    Concept artist and illustrator Sam Nielson works in a lively, cartoony style, in which he almost seems to be rendering caricatures of his already far-out imaginary characters. Nielson combines his springy drawing style with a digital painting approach that pays great attention to the lighting of his subjects — sometimes dramatic, other times muted and…

  • Phil Sandusky (update 2015)

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    Phil Sandusky is a plein air painter, landscape, cityscape and figurative artist based in New Orleans. I’ve written about Sandusky previously, most recently in 2014. Since then, he has unveiled a new website that showcases his work to better advantage. Sandusky paints the streets, parks and neighborhoods of New Orleans, and several other cities that…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Monet’s Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

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    Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Claude Monet In the Getty Museum, also on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons (also here). The Getty page offers a downloadble version that is very high resolution (60mb). The Getty version seems unnecessarily dark to me (I haven’t found museums to be particularly reliable when it comes to…

  • So PineNut

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    So PineNut is the name given on his Behance gallery for a Japanese artist and illustrator based in Tokyo. Beyond that I have little background information. The images on his Behance gallery are often dark, both in emotional tone and subject; and, unfortunately, in the sense that some of the photographs of the work appear…