Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thayer’s Roses

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    Roses, Abbott Handerson Thayer On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing this piece in person; if you’re at the Smithsonian, it’s worth seeking out (not that there aren’t other treasures aplenty in the same collection.) According to The…

  • Eytan Zana

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    Eytan Zana is an illustrator and concept artist working in both the gaming and film industries. He has worked on titles like The Last Of Us and Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception. Beyond that, I know little, as his blog doesn’t give a great deal of background information. It does, however, have examples of his wonderfully…

  • Mykola Pymonenko

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    Born just outside of Kiev, 19th century artist Mykola Pymonenko spent most of his career portraying the land and people of his native Ukraine. He became a member of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts, but also exhibited with the more progressive Society of South Russian Artists and the Peredvizhniki. (See my Lines and Colors…

  • Michal Dziekan

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    Michal Dziekan is an illustrator and character designer based in Warsaw, Poland, whose stylistic range reaches from acerbic cartoony exaggeration to surprisingly lyrical imagery. His website includes pages of illustrations from various projects, most of which offer crops that allow you to appreciate some of the wonderful details Dziekan incorporates into his illustrations. He also…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Breitner’s Girl in a White Kimono

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    Girl in a White Kimono, George Hendrik Breitner In the Rijksmuseum. One of several paintings Breitner did of young women posing languidly in kimonos. See the Artcyclopedia entry for more resources on Breitner.

  • James Freeman

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    Pennsylvania artist James Freeman describes his work as “Magic Realist oil paintings, a combination of landscape and still life”. Freeeman’s fascinating, often complex, compositions consist primarily of plant forms — though they often incorporate man-made objects — in which the context of our view of plants is shifted by his selection of point of view,…