Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2019

  • Daniel Blimes

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    Daniel Blimes is a Los Angeles based painter whose current work is a series of portraits, faces and figures rendered in oil in a fascinatingly textural approach. Many of the works are almost monochromatic save for key passages, others are rich with subtle variations in color. His textures combine striations, stipple and linear geometric marks…

  • Historic paintings and drawings of Notre-Dame de Paris

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    When my wife and I first arrived in Paris in 2002, evening was descending as we checked into our B&B and it was dark when we went out for our first stoll in Paris. We were staying in the area of the Botanical Gardens, and it was a short walk down to the quay by…

  • Paulo J. Mendes

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    Paulo J. Mendes is an avid urban sketcher based in Matosinhos, Portugal. His blog and Instagram feed have a subheading of “Stealing landscapes with a sketchbook”. I’m not sure if that’s intentional or an algorithmic translation for something more like “capturing landscapes”. (The original Portuguese reads: “A roubar paisagens com um caderno”.) [Addendum: a Portugese…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Martin Johnson Heade – Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth

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    Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth, Martin Johnson Heade Oil on canvas, roughy 15 x 24 inches (54 x 77 cm) Link is to Wikimedia Commons page with access to high a resolution image. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project. The original is in the collection of The Museum of Fine…

  • Johannes Helgeson

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    Originally from Sweden and now based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Johannes Helgeson is a concept artist and illustrator working in the gaming industry. in his online presence, Helgeson emphasiszes character and costume design. His style can be springy and cartoon-like, brushy and textural or highly rendered — sometimes all at once. Many of the images on…

  • Aaron Douglas

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    Aaron Douglas was an American painter, illustrator and muralist active in the early to mid 20th century. He was a notable artist among the group collectively identified as the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his work centered on social issues affecting African Americans and often utilized African motifs, as well as Jazz-age imagery and Cubist and…