Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Elle Michalka

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    Elle Michalka is a painter, illustrator and concept artist, originally from Texas and now based in Los Angeles, where she has worked in the animation field for companies like Disney TV Animation, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network. Her credits include work on Gravity Falls and Steven Universe. Michalka also creates digital paintings of…

  • Sean Murtha

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    Connecticut based artist Sean Murtha brings his experience and sensibilities as a plein air landscape painter to his naturalist paintings of birds, imbuing them with a sense of being part of their environment — a feeling sometimes lacking in wildlife painting where too often the landscape is simply a backdrop for the animal subject. Ironically,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eakins’ Concert Singer

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    The Concert Singer, Thomas Eakins Link is to zoomable version on Google art Project; downloadble file in Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There is an article on the painting on Wikipedia. This striking portrait by Thomas Eakins is here in Philadelphia, where I’ve had the pleasure of studying it many…

  • Alfred Parsons

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    Alfred Parsons was a British landscape painter, illustrator and botanical artist, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His sensitivity to the nuances of natural forms and colors is particularly evident in his evocative portrayals of flowering trees in spring. Parsons also brought his artistic sensibilities and botanical knowledge to garden design. In…

  • Bill Mudron

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    Bill Mudron is an illustrator and designer from Texas, who came to my attention through a series of posters he created, inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films and done in the woodblock print style of Kawase Hasui. In these, I not only enjoy his subtle approach, but his choice to reduce the characters to small…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Karl Spitzweg’s Childhood Friends

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    Childhood Friends, Karl Spitzweg Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. I love the illustrative qualities in the piece — the theatrical lighting, the narrative element and the caricaturish portrayal of the old friends, shown in an apparent reunion…