Lines and Colors art blog

Month: October 2017

  • Paschalis Dougalis

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    Originally from Greece, Paschalis Dougalis is an artist and wildlife illustrator currently based in Munich, Germany. Douglais has a special interest in birds, and owls in particular. He works in watercolor, gouache and acrylic for his finished pieces, and often works from life in zoos and parks, capturing animals in watercolor or pen, often Bic…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jongkind Laundry Boat on the Seine

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    Bateau-Lavoir prés du Pont-Neuf, Paris; Johan Jongkind From our vantage point in time, we have a tendency to call paintings like this one — with its loose, painterly brushwork, depiction of everyday events, and contrasting complementary colors — “impressionistic”. It’s another reminder that the characteristics we associate with French Impressionism were not invented out of…

  • Odile Richer

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    Canadian painter Odile Richer takes a refined realist approach to her compositions of faces and figures. The often complex backgrounds against which she places her models, and the clothing in which she poses them, offer a dense variety of textures, shapes and value relationships that contrast with the faces of the models themselves. Often there…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Marten van Valckenborch Tower of Babel

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    The Tower of Babel, Marten van Valckenborch the Elder The link is to a zoomable version of the image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden State Art Museums. Flemish Renaissance painter Marten van Valckenborch painted a number of complex compositions…

  • Denise Dumont

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    Denise Dumont is a Delaware based artist who applies her fresh, painterly approach to urban, rural and particularly coastal scenes of Delaware, Maryland and New England. I enjoy her scenes of dune paths and vegetation, in which she plays with effects of shadow, light and texture. She finds similar characteristics in the portrayal of snow…

  • Chris Malbon

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    Chris Malbon is a UK based illustrator and designer who works in both traditional and digital media. He has done work for a number of agencies and clients including work for Sony, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Nike and MTV. Malbon’s approach varies with his project, but is often vibrant with texture and color. He sometimes does complex…