Lines and Colors art blog

Month: May 2019

  • Louise Moillon

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    Louise Moillon was a French still life painter active in the 17th century. Though she lived in Paris, where still life painting had yet to become accepted as a respected genre, she painted in the Flemish Baroque style of still life that was becoming popular in the Netherlands. Her work includedd elements of trompe l’oeil…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Anders Zorn etched portrait of Augustus Saint Gaudens

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    Augustus Saint Gaudens II (Saint Gaudens and his Model), Anders Zorn Etching and drypoint, roughly 5 x 8 inches (14 x 20 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; downloadable large image on Wikimedia Commons Zorn is one of my favorite etchers (after only Rembrandt and Whistler), and his mastery shows here…

  • Artur Sadlos

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    Artur Sadlos is a concept artist, designer, art director and photographer, working primarily in the gaming industry. His concept art often has an appealing playfulness in the lighting, with sometimes subtle, sometimes dramatic lighting effects in key parts of the composition. It is also often nicely textural, particularly in his rendering of stone and rock.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Emilio Sánchez-Perrier landscape

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    Boating on the River, Emilio Sánchez-Perrier Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga, which also has zoomable & downloable images. Sánchez-Perrier’s landscapes have a wonderful visual softness. They exhibit a masterful use of soft edges that is somehow different than…

  • Argon Zark! remastered

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    A long time ago (on an internet far far away), I created one of the earliest webcomics, Argon Zark!, a cyberpunk humor/adventure story about a computer geek who has invented a way to be physically transported into and through the World Wide Web. For a long time I thought it was the very first online…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jacob de Gheyn pen drawing

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    Chestnut Tree with some trees around it, Jacob de Gheyn (II) Ink and chalk drawing, roughly 15 x 10 inches (36 x 25 cm), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, which has a zoomable version on the website. You can download high-res images if you get a free Rijksstudio account. Dutch painter and printmaker jacob…