Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2017

  • Emily Hare

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    Emily Hare is a freelance illustrator based in the UK who has a wonderful knack for creating beasties and creatures. These have a nicely strange charm, or a charming strangeness, or, well.. you get the idea. Though she used to work digitally, she is now working in traditional media, primarily watercolor. Among the items in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Olga Wisinger-Florian fall landscape

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    Falling Leaves, Olga Wisinger-Florian Link is to the image on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the status of the original; it was sold at auction in 2014, so it may be in a private collection. Turn of the century Austrian painter Olga Wisinger-Florian give us a wonderful example of how to handle a complex, colorful…

  • Museum Day 2017

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    Tomorrow, Saturday, September 23, 2017 is “Museum Day” here in the U.S. Organized by Smithsonian magazine, participating “Museum Day Live” institutions offer a free pair of admission tickets for the day. You just need to order your tickets in advance (today), print them out and take them with you. Hundreds of museums are participating, but…

  • Danielle Richard

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    Danielle Richard is an artist from Quebec, Canada who works in oil, acrylic and pastel. Her subjects are primarily young women in pastoral scenes, along shorelines or in idyllic views of small boats or canoes on lakes. Though there isn’t an overt similarity, her work reminds me of the sensibilities of some of the Pre-Raphaelite…

  • Luigi (Gigi) Cavenago

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    Luigi Cavenago (also Gigi Cavenago or GigiCave) is an italian comics artist based in Milan. He is best known for his work on the supernatural detective series Dylan Dog, for which he did cover illustrations as well as interior art. Cavenago has a forceful, graphic style, contrasting blocks of color with areas of detail and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Edwin Church oil sketch

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    Drawing, in the New England woods, 1855-65; Frederic Edwin Church Oil on paperboard, roughly 13 x 9 inches ( 33 x 23 cm); in the Cooper Hewitt Collection of the Smithsonian Design Museum. Interestingly, the museum has posted two images of this work, the one above, top, which I’ll call the “cool” version, and the…