Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Peploe’s Black Bottle

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    The Black Bottle, Samuel John Peploe Link is to Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Galleries Scotland. Wonderfully fluid and economical handling of this table setting subject by Scottish painter Samuel Peploe. It carries a feeling of the still life work of Manet, who was likely…

  • Liz Haywood-Sullivan

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    Liz Haywood-Sullivan is a pastel painter who creates landscapes and cityscapes with an eye to the vibrant color and graphic textural qualities the medium makes available. Depending on size and subject matter, her approach can either be more refined or more sketch-like, with an emphasis on that fascinating area where the qualities of pastel cross…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Sassoferrato’s Virgin in Prayer

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    The Virgin in Prayer, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato This beautiful painting is in the National Gallery, London, where is is currently part of their exhibition on painting materials, Making Color. This is primarily because of the artist’s use of genuine Ultramarine Blue in the robes. Before the formulation of the modern synthetic version, French…

  • Stephan Martiniere (update 2014)

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    I first wrote about illustrator and concept artist Stephan Martiniere back in 2006 and followed with an update post in 2008. Since then, Martiniere has updated his website and posted lots of new and wonderful goodies. The problem with doing a post about Martiniere is choosing images for the post, or more specifically, being able…

  • Antonio Reyna

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    In his early 20’s, Spanish painter Antonio María de Reyna Manescau received a grant to study art in Rome for a time, and settled there permanently. Though he was based in Rome, he spent much of his time painting the architectural wonder that is Venice, as it appeared in the late 19th and early 20th…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Dean Cornwell’s artist and model

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    The Artist and His Model, Dean Cornwell This beautiful piece by the brilliant American illustrator Dean Cornwell was in a private collection for years, and was sold at auction last October. The Heritage Auctions site has details. For those who don’t have a Heritage account, you can see the image in high resolution (2.8mb) through…