Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Kees Kousemaker’s Comiclopedia at Lambiek.net

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    Lambiek is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, comic shop in the world. Located in Amsterdam, it was founded by in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker. At one level, the shop’s online presence is a webshop, a source of comics, graphic novels and related material, often hard to find, that ships worldwide. In…

  • August Leu

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    August Wilhelm Leu was a 19th century German landscape painter who specialized in dramatic large scale scenes of the mountains in the Alps and Norway. In the detail crops in the images above, second from top and two at bottom, you can see some of the wonderful detail in these. Eat your heart out, Bob…

  • Eye Candy for Today: H.J. Ford dragon illustration

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    The Dragon flies off with the Empress, illustration from The violet fairy book (1906) by Henry Justice Ford. Henry Justice Ford was a British illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was noted in particular for his pen and ink illustrations of fairy stories. The link is to a page on…

  • A personal note: I’m still here because…

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    I am able to be here writing this because, as of yesterday, September 1, 2025, I have had my kidney transplant for 33 years! We were having a Labor Day barbecue with friends, when my wife called me into the house to take a phone call. It was Jefferson Hospital. I had been in to…

  • Clark Institute image resource

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    Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA was started as a museum to house their extensive art collection, and now includes a library and research center. The museum has recently made over 2,700 images of works from their collection available for download. They’re not exactly “high resolution” but large enough to browse and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Norfolk Landscape by Edward Seago

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    Norfolk Landscape by Edward Seago, oil on board, roughly 12 x 16 inches (30 x 41 cm). Link is to British art dealer Richard Green. (Click on the image on their site for a larger view.) As of this writing, the painting is for sale, so I don’t know how long this image may remain…