Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2024

  • LearnFromMasters YouTube channel

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    If, like me, you enjoy YouTube videos about art and artists, you may have come across a number of slideshow style videos showcasing the art of historic painters. In many of these, if not the majority, the creator of the videos seems compelled to add motion — panning, zooming and using transitions that flip, swipe,…

  • Brock Larson

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    Brock Larson is a contemporary American painter living in Minnesota. On his website you will find landscape and still life paintings along with portrait drawings. In his landscapes, Larson often pulls us into the shadowy depths of deep woods, while at others times leading us out onto broad fields and expanses of water. Brock Larson…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Carl Theodor Reiffenstein castle

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    Weite Landschaft mit idealer rheinischer Burg (Wide landscape with an ideal Rhenish castle), Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, oil on canvas, 18 x 14 inches (45 x 36 cm) This landscape painting by the 19th century German painter is a perfect example of counterchange — the reversal of value relationships between a shape or object and the…