Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2015

  • Rovina Cai

    Australian illustrator Rovina Cai works primarily in graphite, defining her forms in curving linear textures that also sweep through atmospheric backgrounds. Her frequently gothic-themed illustrations also can have color — sparingly applied either digitally or in watercolor, but with an eye to allowing the gestural qualities of her graphite drawing to come through. The portfolio…

  • Chien Chung-Wei

    Chien Chung-Wei is a Taiwanese watercolorist who early in his career emulated the painstakingly detailed methods of 19th century European watercolor painters like William Henry Hunt and Myles Birket Foster, but as his career progressed moved to a looser, more open style emphasizing the gesture and light of his subjects. He most often paints urban…

  • More artists’ studios

    Like many artists, I enjoy seeing how other artists arrange and use their studios and work spaces. This is partly out of curiosity and partly with an eye to possibly useful ideas. Here are a couple more sources for photos of artists’ studios, in this case mostly illustrators, concept artists and comics artists. One is…

  • Stefanie Lieberman

    Stefanie Lieberman is an artist based in Philadelphia who focuses on landscape and animals. In her landscapes, Lieberman takes a loose, gestural approach to her brush work, ofetn giving her foliage in particular a lively feeling of texture. In her compositions with water, she often contrasts these textures with the smooth sheen of undisturbed surfaces.…

  • Jim Kay

    Jim Kay is a British illustrator know for his illustrations for A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, and the pop-up book, Bugs with George McGavin, and lately — in particular — for his work on the new Illustrated Editions of the Harry Potter series. The first in that series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone:…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pieter Claesz Peacock Pie

    Still Life with Peacock Pie, Pieter Claesz In the National GAllery of Art, DC, with zoomable or downloadable image, also downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons. It’s interesting to compare this large (30,51inches, 77x129cm), sumptuous still life to a similar composition in the collection of the Rijksmuseum that I featured previously, Still Life with a Turkey…