Lines and Colors art blog

Month: February 2016

  • George Hendrik Breitner

    Dutch painter George Hendrik Breitner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was noted for his rough, brushy, textural approach and his subject matter of city streets, working people, military horsemen and figures. In particular he is famous for his recurrent subject of young women in kimonos, their bright colors a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: David Roberts’ Edinburgh

    Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, David Roberts The link is to a zoomable version on The Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia. Mid-19th century painter David Roberts was known primarily for his views of exotic locations and…

  • Fian Arroyo

    Fian Arroyo is an illustrator and character designer based in North Carolina whose clients include The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic, Disney, General Motors and The U.S. Postal Service. In the portfolios on his website and Behance pages you’ll find work in a variety of genres, done in a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

    The birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli The link is to a zoomable version on The Google Art Project; the original is in the Uffizi Gallery; there is a very hi-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons (Note that the full-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons is one of the largest I’ve seen on the web, over 200MB,…

  • Albert Goodwin

    Albert Goodwin was an English painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Goodwin started his artist career early, coming under the tutelage or Pre-Raphaelite painters Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown at an early age, and exhibiting at the Royal Academy at the age of 15. I his later career he was…

  • Minh Dam

    Originally from Hanoi, Vietnam, Minh Dam is an architect and watercolor painter based in Poland. He is the founder of Lineare Art Studio in Warsaw, and a co-founder of the Polish Watercolor Society. Minh Dam’s primary focus in his paintings is cityscape. He take as his subjects cities in Poland and other parts of Europe,…