Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Régis Pettinari

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    Régis Pettinari is a French painter whose work I have admired for years, but am just now writing about — perhaps because every time I visit his blog, I find myself spending way too much time looking back through his extensive archive of work instead of writing my post. Pettinari is a painter of Paris,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough ink and wash landscape

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    Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane, Thomas Gainsborough On Google Art Project. High-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art. There’s something about ink and wash drawings like this one that feel… complete, like a form of painting with all the visual charm of…

  • Scott Brundage (update)

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    Two things immediately jump out at me when looking over the illustrations of Scott Brundage: one is his deft control of mood and atmosphere across his range of styles, the other is, of course, the wonderful expressiveness of his characters. Brundage works in watercolor, and his style ranges from dark and intense to light and…

  • Pierre Raby

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    It would be easy to simply classify Montreal-based artist Pierre Raby’s work as “photorealistic”; but to do so, I think, is to miss the point. Raby’s paintings of cups, saucers, glassware and silver are marvelous wonderlands of light — reflected, refracted and bounced from one surface to the next in a cascade of color changes.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Salomon van Ruysdael river landscape

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    River Landscape with Ferry, Salomon van Ruysdael Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Though his name was largely eclipsed by that of his nephew, Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, early 17th century painter Salomon van Ruysdael contributed to the movement away from the formal Italianate landscapes brought to a peak in the same…

  • Samuel Michlap (update)

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    When I first wrote about concept and visual development artist Samuel Michlap back in 2006, he had recently started his blog and his website was still under construction. Since then, of course, he has added a considerable volume of work to his redesigned website, and his film industry credits now include titles like The Lion…