Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert von Herkomer’s Miss May Miles
Miss May Miles, Hubert von Herkomer I have not seen the original of this painting, but my experience with comparing art images on the web with their originals — in the case of paintings I have seen in person — gives me the impression that some well-intentioned but misguided individual along the way has increased…
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Sketches in Line and Wash by Jeanette L. Gurney
If, like me, you’ve watched many of James Gurney’s excellent short videos on YouTube, you have undoubtedly seen Jeanette Gurney, James Gurney’s wife, playing a supporting role, often accompanying him on sketching trips and sketching in the background while he sketches or paints. Occasionally, we would get a look at her line and watercolor drawings,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Homer’s A Basket of Clams
A Basket of Clams, Winslow Homer, watercolor and gouache, roughly 11 x 10 inches (29 x 25 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image available. The museum lists the materials of this early watercolor by Homer as simply “watercolor on wove paper”.…
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Nicholas Kole
Nicholas Kole is an illustrator and concept artist based in Vancouver, BC. His clients include Disney, Dreamworks, Hasbro, EA Games/Waystone, Riot, Axis, ReelFX, Mattel, 38 Studios and Spiritwalk Games, among others. Kole’s style is energetic and cartoony, with just enough rendering to give his characters an appealing dimensional aspect. For the past few years, he…
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Eye Candy for the Summer Solstice: Walter Moras, Summer Idyll
Summer Idyll (Sommeridylle), Walter Moras, oil on canvas, roughly 31 x 47 inches (80 x 120 cm) Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons that offers a large file; I don’t know the location of the original. German landscape painter Walter Moras (active n the late 19th and early 20th centuries) gives us a…
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More portraits of artists’ fathers
More portraits of artists’ fathers. For more see my previous post: Portraits of the artist’s father. (Images above, [links are to relevant Lines and Colors posts]: Ilya Repin, Herbert Drouais, Jenny Fay, Anna Klumpke, Andrew James, Paul Cezanne, Antonio Mancini, Marcel Duchamp, John Singer Sargent)