Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jacob van Walscapelle still life

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    Still Life with Fruit, Jacob van Walscapelle In the Rijksmuseum. Image is zoomable (and downloadable if you get a free account). Also a downloadable (but I think oersaturated) image here. Not only is this beautifully composed and rendered, with the fruits and stems gradually revealing themselves as you peer into the darker corners, I love…

  • Tony Auth, 1942-2014

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    For over 40 years, Tony Auth was a glimmer of sanity amid the news of the day, in the form of his cartoons on the opinion pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2012, Auth — a winner of the Pulitzer and Herblock Prizes — moved to the local PBS affiliate, bringing his cartoons to their

  • Eye Candy for Today: Theodore Robinson’s Old Bridge

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    The Old Bridge, Theodore Robinson Image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. This is one of my favorites by Robinson, who was among the earliest American painters to adopt the new style of the French Impressionists. It’s one of those paintings that you could divide up into a number of smaller compositions…

  • Bright Light Fine Art / Artists Guild Library

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    Bright Light Fine Art is a collaborative art instruction site featuring three well-known contemporary painters: David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw and Jacqueline Kamin (links to my posts). The site has bios and sample galleries by each artist, listings of workshops and other news, and a store for books by Leffel and McGraw. The essence of the…

  • Ikenaga Yasunari

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    Japanese artist Ikenaga Yasunari paints portraits of women in serene, often wistful poses, in which the patterns of their clothing and surrounding textiles as as important within the compositions as the stylized design work of Mucha or Klimt. Though his approach is modern, Yasunari works in tools and techniques from the traditional Nihonga style, painting…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Lorenzo Lotto’s Madonna and Child

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    Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Thomas (sacra conversazione), Lorenzo Lotto On Google Art Project, high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original it in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The 16th century venetian master gives us an idyllic tableau of serene faces, beautifully painted. The angel is just… angelic.