Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2017

  • Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny small oil

    Cows Grazing by a River, Charles François Daubigny Oil on card, roughly 3 x 7 inches (7 x 17 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. What a wonderful little painting this is — a sky full of movement and a richly textural landscape, both defined and enlivened by thick, rough brush…

  • Henk Helmantel

    Henk Helmantel is a contemporary Dutch painter who takes inspiration in the great Dutch masters of the 17th century. Though he also paints landscapes and portraits, Helmantel’s emphasis in on still life — much in the tradition of Baroque Dutch still life in subject matter and technique — and interiors, frequently of Gothic churches in…

  • Shae Shatz

    Shae Shatz is an illustrator and concept artist based in Los Angeles whose clients include Columbia Pictures, Disney Feature Films, Motiga Games and Sony Computer Entertainment. His wesbite portfolio is divided into projects and includes sketches and preliminaries as well as finished concept renderings. I particularly admire his handling of the textures of stone and…