Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Distance

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    Distance is a short (3 minute) animated film by students from the Gobelins school in Paris. It portrays a psychological mini-drama of fear within the mind of an introverted high school girl as she tries to traverse the distance between her hall locker and that of a boy she likes. Please see the page on…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Watanabe Seitei ink painting

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    Birds of a Flowering Branch, Watanabe Seitei In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. Roughly 14×11 inches (36x27cm), ink and color on silk. The listing doesn’t say what kind of “color”. The white flowers look to me like opaque watercolor, but I don’t know. The…

  • Ali Cavanaugh

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    In a process similar to traditional fresco-secco — a method of painting with water based paints on a dry plaster surface that has been moistened — St. Louis based painter Ali Cavanaugh works by applying layers of watercolor to a prepared clay ground that has been wet. The resulting images have been described as luminous…

  • Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish

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    Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl, Nautilus Cup, Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish, Willem Kalf Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, which also has a high-res downloadable file. “Pronk” still life means “splendid”, or…

  • Ben Lo

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    Originally from Toronto and now based in Montreal, concept artist Ben Lo has credits that include Bioshock Infinite and a Need for Speed title. He is currently working for Bioware on a new Mass Effect title. Lo’s digital painting style ranges from quick and efficient to refined and subtle, with much attention given to variations…

  • Robert Hope

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    Scottish painter Robert Hope was active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries. He studied at the Edinburgh School of Design and in Paris at the Académie Julian. Beyond that, I can find little information and only a few sources of images. Hope created painterly landscapes and compositions of young women in clothes of…