Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • James Skvarch (update)

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    James Skvarch is an artist I featured back in 2007. He is primarily a printmaker working in traditional methods of etching. He uses to advantage the characteristics of etching that allow for delicate lines and hatching for tones. When printed on cream or off-white paper, these provide a visually appealing controlled contrast. His website galleries…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eyvind Earle trees

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    I don’t know the title or the size of this serigraph by ex illustrator and former Disney background artist turned gallery artist Eyvind Earle. I just know it’s wonderful. I love the exaggerated atmospheric perspective, the trademark stylization of the trees, the splashes of light across the trees and shrubs and the perspective imparted by…

  • Christina Chung

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    Christina Chung is a Brooklyn based illustrator who describes her nationality as Taiwanese-Hongkonger-American. Her clients include The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Science Magazine, NPR, Abrams Books, Penguin Random House, and Lucasfilm, among others. Her illustrations, often in a line and fill approach, use restrained palettes and carefully controlled value…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Levitan’s bridge at Savvinskaya Sloboda

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    Bridge. Savvinskaya Sloboda; Isaac Ilyich Levitan; oil on canvas, roughly 10 x 11 inches (25 x 29 cm). Link is to the file page on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, though the gallery does not include it among the Levitan pieces from their collection that they display online. I…

  • Blair Atherholt

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    Blair Atherholt is a painter whose approach to still life combines modern sensibilities with traditions from the “Golden Age” of 17th Dutch still life. Many of his compositions feature dark backgrounds and strong chiaroscuro in the definition of objects, as well as attention to “lost and found” edges. He departs from those traditions in his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Albert Pénot’s La Petite Cigale

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    La Petite Cigale or portrait of the artist’s daughter, Albert Joseph Pénot Oil on canvas, roughly 63 x 39 inches (161 x 98 cm). Link is to a past auction on Tajan auctions. There is a somewhat smaller image on Wikimedia Commons which lists the location of the original as Museum No Hero, Delden (The…