Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Venice
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, Joseph Mallord William Turner Another of Turner’s magically luminous excursions into Venice. Turner gives us three worlds here — the city and sky, the reflections in the water, and the surface of the water. Look at what he does with the shadows of of unseen objects in the…
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David Larned
David Larned is a portrait artist, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, who also paints still life and landscape. Larned uses a restrained palette, and often a restrained range of values, giving his work a strong feeling of harmony. In his portraits, which range from formal and corporate to informal and family oriented, he seems to…
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James Gurney's How I Paint Dinosaurs
Long time readers of Lines and Colors will know that I’m an admirer of the work of illustrator and painter James Gurney. I also love dinosaurs and paleontological art, an area in which Gurney is one of the foremost artists working today, so I was delighted to receive a review copy of Gurney’s instructional DVD…
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Self-portraits #5
How wonderful and strange these all are! (Images above: Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Lucian Freud, Judith Leyster, Thomas Eakins, Howard Chandler Christy, Ila Schütz, Jan Lievens, Paul Cézanne)
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Tezh Modarressi
The usual litany of painting genres goes: “portraits, figurative, landscape and still life”, and brushes over the unfairly neglected subject of room interiors. Tezh Modarressi, originally from Baltimore and now based in Philadelphia, is an artist who takes room interiors as her primary subject. She seeks out old buildings and portrays their weathered, textural surfaces…
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Digital portrait time-lapse by Kyle Lambert
Illustrator, visual development artist and digital painter Kyle Lambert has posted a nice time-lapse video of his process in painting a digital portrait of actor Morgan Freeman, using an iPad and the Procreate painting app. [Via Daring Fireball]