Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Colley Whisson (update)

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    Last year, I wrote about a series of YouTube painting demos by Austrailian painter Colley Whisson, who I first featured in 2011. I thought it would be nice to more directly highlight some of Whisson’s work, which is notable not only for his fresh, crisp, painterly technique, but for the remarkable energy and economy with…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Georg Flegel’s Still Life with Eggs

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    Still Life with Eggs, Georg Flegel Link is to an article on Viático de Vagamundo. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Unfortunately, not the best reproduction in either case, but the best I could find for such a wonderful painting by the 16th/17th century German still life master. Original is in the State Gallery in the Castle…

  • Fossard Christophe

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    Fossard Christophe, AKA “Biboun”, is a French illustrator, concept artist and character designer working in gaming, animation and comics. He has a whimsical touch and a freshly cartoony style that gives his work a lighthearted appeal. Though he also enjoys working in traditional media, Christophe primarily works digitally in Photoshop and Corel Painter. [Via @DCADLibrary]

  • Dusan Djukaric

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    Dusan Djukaric is a Serbian painter whose muted, atmospheric watercolors poetically capture the moods of his native Belgrade, along with those of Venice, Prague and other European cities. Djukaric often seeks out subjects involving water, misty conditions and rain-wet streets, which are well suited to his approach to watercolor. He contrasts controlled, sharp edges with…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Luis Meléndez Still Life with Figs and Bread

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    Still Life with Figs and Bread, Luis Meléndez The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. (The latter also offers a downloadable high resolution file, but I couldn’t access it this…

  • Michael Parkes

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    Michael Parkes is an American painter, printmaker and sculptor now based in Spain. Parkes takes inspiration in his affection for a variety of artistic sensibilities, from Renaissance portraits to 19th century academic and Orientalist painters, Symbolists like Gustav Klimt, Art Nouveau posters, Golden Age children’s book illustrators — particularly Maxfield Parrish — and classic pin-up…