Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2016

  • Bill Vrscak

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    Bill Vrscak is a watercolor painter and illustrator based in the Pittsburgh, PA area. He has a wonderfully appealing combination of solid draftsmanship and crisp but free application of color. I particularly enjoy his paintings that incorporate large areas of open space, which he expertly uses to guide your eye through his composition. On his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Harriet Backer interior

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    Blue Interior, Harriet Backer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia, original is in the The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; the Norwegan online DigitaltMuseum also has a zoomable image. Norwegan painter Harriet Backer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was…

  • Bayard Wu

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    Bayard Wu is a concept artist and illustrator based in Shenzhen, China. He works in the fantasy genre, creating scenes with dragons, monsters and warriors. His dragons, in particular, are rendered with nicely tactile textural characteristics, emphasized by dramatic lighting and muted color palettes. He also places his scenes in atmospheric backgrounds, with suggestions of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Hughes’s April Love

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    April Love, Arthur Hughes Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the Tate, Britain, with a detailed description here. Hughes’s best known work, and one of the most popular Pre-Raphaelite paintings in general, this visual poem to the fleeting nature of young love was first exhibited…

  • Art Venti

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    Art Venti is a California based artist who creates large scale works on paper in a variety of media, primarily color pencils, watercolor markers and watercolor. He classifies some of his compositions as “pencil paintings”. His subjects can perhaps be considered imaginary realism, representing swirls and curves of paper-like bands, twisted gossamer draperies and diaphanous…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Edwin Landseer scene from Shakespeare

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    Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Titania and Bottom, Edwin Landseer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria, which also has a zoomable version. Edwin Landseer was a Victorian painter noted in particular for his sensitive and beautifully portrayals of…