Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Anders Zorn portrait of Freida Schiff

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    Frieda Schiff, Anders Zorn In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Given the relatively weak greens in the curtain and background, I suppose it’s possible this was painted with Zorn’s famously eponymous palette. The “Zorn Palette”, with which the Swedish artist is presumed to have painted many (though certainly not all) of his…

  • Fred Augis

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    Fred Augis is a concept artist and illustrator based in Rennes, France. His gaming credits include titles like Prey, Life is Strange, Remember Me and Strike Vector. His online example art includes character design, and in particular, numerous spacesuit designs. These range from realistically rendered to nicely graphic and gestural.

  • Eye Candy for Today: Carlo Crivelli’s Mary Magdalene

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    Mary Magdalene, Carlo Crivelli Tempera on panel, 60 x 19 inches (152 x 49 cm), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. This beautifully realized late Gothic work (painted in 1480) is as much decorative object as it is representational image. I love how stylized it is, from the intricately rendered strands of hair to the…

  • Steven S. Walker

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    Originally from South Carolina, Steven S. Walker is a painter based in Georgia. Walker’s fascination with light ranges from compositions with dramatically horizontal sunlight to nocturnes with glowing pools of artificial light. He also finds fascination in the contrast of textural elements like trees in snow and rocks in water, playing with shadows and reflections…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Bridge in Middle Distance

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    The Bridge in Middle Distance, Charles Mallord William Turner and Charles Turner Etching, aquatint and mezzotint, roughly 7 x 11 inches (18 x 28 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions. As he frequently did,…

  • Abraham Mignon

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    Abraham Mignon (sometimes Minjon) was a German/Dutch floral and still life painter active in the Dutch “Golden Age” (17th century). His paintings are often elaborate tableaux of flowers, fruits, seafood and dinnerware. They can be marvels of intricate detail, with the inclusion of beautifully painted insects, snails, frogs and salamanders, arranged in a way to…