Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny small oil

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    Cows Grazing by a River, Charles François Daubigny Oil on card, roughly 3 x 7 inches (7 x 17 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. What a wonderful little painting this is — a sky full of movement and a richly textural landscape, both defined and enlivened by thick, rough brush…

  • Henk Helmantel

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    Henk Helmantel is a contemporary Dutch painter who takes inspiration in the great Dutch masters of the 17th century. Though he also paints landscapes and portraits, Helmantel’s emphasis in on still life — much in the tradition of Baroque Dutch still life in subject matter and technique — and interiors, frequently of Gothic churches in…

  • Shae Shatz

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    Shae Shatz is an illustrator and concept artist based in Los Angeles whose clients include Columbia Pictures, Disney Feature Films, Motiga Games and Sony Computer Entertainment. His wesbite portfolio is divided into projects and includes sketches and preliminaries as well as finished concept renderings. I particularly admire his handling of the textures of stone and…

  • Simon Palmer

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    Simon Palmer is an English landscape painter who has a fascinating approach somewhere between naturalistic and quite stylized. He appears to slightly compress both linear and atmospheric perspective, giving an impression of flatness the belies the textures he gives to his foliage and tree forms. This is emphasized by his muted palette, primarily consisting of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Watteau chalk studies

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    Two Studies of the Head and Shoulders of a Little Girl, Antoine Watteau Black, red and white chalk on buff paper, roughy 7 x 10 inches (19 x 25 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Use the Zoom feature or download link. Watteau was noted for his “trois crayon” drawings, in…

  • Jean-Claude Mézières

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    I haven’t yet seen the new Luc Besson film, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but I have read a number of the French comics (bandes dessinées) on which the movie was based — Valérian and Laureline (alternately, Valerian: Spatio-Temporal Agent), created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. Mézières is an…