Lines and Colors art blog

Month: November 2016

  • Thomas Bossard

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    Thomas Bossard is a French painter, illustrator, muralist and stage set designer. His paintings have a lively, cartoon-like charm and wry humor that reminds me of idiosyncratic cartoonists and illustrators like Ronald Searle and Edward Sorel. Bossard paints in oil on panel, and I find the surface texture of his approach contributes greatly to the…

  • Billyo O’Donnell

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    Billyo O’Donnell is a Missouri painter whose recent work, in addition to being painterly and color rich, is often highly textural. I’ve had O’Donnell on my list of artists to cover on Lines and Colors for some time (it’s a long list), and his style has evolved since I first encountered his work. His newer…

  • Lisa Ericson

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    Portland, Oregon based painter Lisa Ericson draws on her background in illustration and graphic design to give her compositions a strong graphic punch, often setting high-value and high chroma subjects against deep black backgrounds. The work currently showcased on her website highlights two particular themes involving juxtaposed hybrid animals — fish crossed with corals and/or…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peter Lely’s Portrait of Louise de Keroualle

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    Portrait of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth; Peter Lely In the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The museum’s website has both zoomable and downloadable versions available. The largest available download version is truly high-resolution, but be aware that it is large in file size at 98mb. I haven’t had the pleasure of…

  • Bob Rudd

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    Bob Rudd is a British painter who works in both watercolor and oil, though watercolor is his primary focus. His colorful landscape and architectural subjects are depicted with an interesting range of technique, from loose and free to more exacting. In what I feel are some of his most interesting compositions, he combines in the…

  • “World War I and American Art” at PAFA

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    “World War I and American Art” is an exhibition currently at the Museum of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts here in Philadelphia. Drawing partly from their own collection and partly from loans, the Academy’s Museum of has mounted an exhibition that delves into the response of American artists to the First World War…