Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Douglas Smith (update)

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    Douglas Smith is an illustrator whose specialty is working in the fascinating medium of scratchboard. I first wrote about him in 2013, and I thought iw would be interesting to check back into see some additional work. He uses the wonderfully graphic nature of the medium, both in black and white and in color, to…

  • Eye Candy for Today: James Tissot’s Japanese Scroll

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    The Japanese Scroll, James Tissot, oli on panel, roughly 15 x 2 in. (39 x 57 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in a private collection, image sourced form past Christie’s auction. The soft light, informal pose and seemingly mundane subject matter might tempt us to think of this as…

  • Johan Abeling

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    Johan Abeling is a contemporary Dutvh painter who has taken the sensations of atmospheric perspective, mist and fog and made them the predominant motif of his paintings. He creates relatively simplified compositions, often of a few trees set againat what appear to be open fields. Abeling’s touch moves them into spaces of quiet contemplation and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Frank Brangwyn’s swans

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    The Swans, Frank Brangwyn. I don’t know the size or present location. The image is from William Morris Gallery, posted during an exhibit; large image here. Like many art images, you will see versions of this one on the internet in which someone has put it into an image editor and cranked up the saturation…

  • Ilya Milstein

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    Ilya Milstein is an award winning Italian-Australian illustrator with an impressive client list, currently based in New York. Milstein has a clean, open style that pops with visual charm. While many of his images use traditional linear perspective, a number are in isometric projection. This is a method of representing three dimensional space in which…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Idyllic Walter Moras Landscape

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    Spreewald Village in Autumn, Walter Moras. Oil on canvas, 24 x 39 in, ( 60 x 100 cm). Link is to MutualArt, larger image on GoodFon. Yes, I know it can initially look a bit, um… picturesque (and yes, I know there are ducks), but I like it. The more I look at the large…