Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2015

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait of Mme. Lethière

    Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, roughly 11×9 in (30×22 cm); in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image. Another of Ingres’ marvelous pencil portraits in which the delicately attentive portrait is set off by his seemingly casual sketch of…

  • Anton Batov

    Anton Batov is a Russian artist and illustrator based in Moscow. He is also a senior lecturer in design and graphic design at D. Mendeleyev University Of Chemical Technology Of Russia. I particularly enjoy Batov’s landscape and cityscape watercolors, many of which are painted on location. Even in his more finished studio watercolors, he carries…

  • Gregg Kreutz

    Originally from Wisconsin, Gregg Kreutz is a New York Based painter, teacher and author. His book Problem Solving for Oil Painters, originally published in 1986 and now in its fifth printing, has become something of an art instruction standard. Kreutz graduated from N.Y.U. and continued his training at the Art Student’s League, where he studied…

  • Kei Acedera

    Kei Acedera is a concept and visual development artist and illustrator. Along with Bobby Chiu, she is a co-founder of Toronto-based Imaginism Studios, and serves as their art director. Her work, though often rendered in a way that accents form and volume, usually has a light touch and visual charm in line with childrens’ book…

  • Arthur Melville

    Though he was also accomplished in oil, 19th century Scottish painter Arthur Melville is know in particular for his unique and influential style of watercolor painting. Melville’s approach was radical and very different from the mainstream of British watercolorists at the time. Though he worked in transparent watercolor, Melville painted on specially prepared paper which…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bonvin Chrysanthemum

    Flowering Chrysanthemum, Léon Bonvin Watercolor, gouache, pen and iron gall ink, roughly 10×8 in (24×19 cm). In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Click on “Explore Object” or “Download Image” for large version. Bonvin’s sensitive rendering of the plant is beautifully set off by his atmospheric suggestion of morning haze, through which we can just see…