Lines and Colors art blog

Month: September 2017

  • Georges de Feure

    Born Georges Joseph van Sluÿters, to a Dutch father and a Belgian mother, Georges de Feure was a French painter, graphic artist and designer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though originally aligned with the Symbolist movement, much of his work was in the style of Art Nouveau — prints,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching

    Portrait of Abraham Francen, Apothecary; Rembrandt Harmenz. van Rijn Etching and drypoint; roughly 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20 cm); In the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Rembrandt was an absolute master of the medium of etching and drypoint — in my opinion, the greatest in the history of art. He is most noted for…

  • Phil Dean

    Phil Dean is a British urban sketcher, who also goes by the handle “Shoreditch Sketcher” after the neighborhood in East London where he lives. Dean avidly sketches the landmarks, streets and byways of London, both historic and modern, as well as documenting his travels to other cities. His style is a nice balance of loose…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Veronese double portrait

    Portrait of Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Deidamia, Paolo Veronese Link is to a zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Walters Art Museum, which also has a zoomable and downloadable version, but not as high resolution. This full length…

  • John Crump

    John Crump is a painter based in western New Zealand whose lively style, rich with the passage of the brush, is ideally suited to his subject matter, whether it be fresh flowers, the weathered texture of ramshackle buildings or the rough character of the dramatic New Zealand mountains or shoreline. Crump’s website has both a…

  • Kadir Nelson

    Kadir Nelson is an illustrator and gallery artist whose style ranges from straightforward to engagingly stylized. His illustration work includes a number of popular picture books as well as editorial work — including the 90th anniversary cover of The New Yorker. This featured a delightful updating of the magazine’s signature character, Eustace Tilly (images above,…