Lines and Colors art blog

Month: August 2018

  • Elizabeth Robbins

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    Utah-based painter Elizabeth Robbins focuses primarily on floral still life, and also paints portraits and Western Art subjects. In her still life paintings, she take a direct, painterly approach, often with dramatic chiaroscuro contrasts. I particularly enjoy her use of soft and hard edges and her handling of crokery and transparent vessels. Robbins conducts workshops,…

  • Matthew Cook (update 2018)

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    Matthew (Matt) Cook is a UK artist and illustrator who I have featured previously (and here), mostly in reference to his fascinating role as a reportage illustrator in the middle-east war zones. In this post, I’d like to focus instead on his more recent travel sketches and paintings. Most of these are done in a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Isaac Levitan Crimean landscape

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    In the Crimean Mountains, Isaac Ilich Levitan Oil on canvas, roughly 26 x 14 inches (68 x 36 cm); in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. This stunning rocky landscape is part of the superb collection of works in the Tretyakov Gallery by 19th century Russian landscape master Isaac (Isaak) Ilich Levitan. Here, Levitan…

  • Steve Caldwell

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    Steve Caldwell is a UK painter whose focus is portraits, and by focus I mean rather intense focus. Caldwell’s faces are intensely observed, and rendered with a finessed attention to tone and texture. Many have a feeling of immediacy that at times can even feel a bit confrontational, a sense of “here I am, this…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto capriccio

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    Capriccio with a River and Bridge, Bernard Bellotto Oil on canvas, roughly 19 x 29 inches (48 x 73 cm); in the collection of the Museo National Thyssen-Bornemisza. Click on the links to zoom or download the image on the museum’s site. Bernardo Bellotto was Canaletto’s nephew, as well as his premiere student. This image…

  • Denise Ramsay

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    Denise Ramsay is a botanical artist originally from New Zealand, who now divides her time between Hong Kong and a cottage in the southwest region of France. Ramsay paints keenly observed and intricately realized watercolors of flowers and other plants, sometimes at a fairly large scale, in watercolor. Her paintings are bold and dynamic, apparently…