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Author: cparker

  • Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings auction, July, 2019

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    I’ve mentioned in the past that high-end auction sites, like Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonham’s often have online auction previews that feature nice large images of museum quality artworks (as do their listings for past auctions.) The upcoming 19th Century European Paintings auction at Sotheby’s for July 9, 2019 is a case in point, and features…

  • Avant Choi

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    Avant Choi is a concept artist and illustrator based in South Korea and working in the gaming industry. Beyond that, there is little background information on the artist’s ArtStation or Instagram presence. Choi’s environments, particularly those labeled as personal projects, are often whimsical, imaginative and brightly colored, in contrast to the often dark and dour…

  • James Gurney’s Unconventional Oil Techniques

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    Unconventional Oil Techniques is the latest in a series of instructional painting videos by artist and author James Gurney. While the majority of his previous videos have dealt with various water based media: gouache, casein and watercolor, after numerous requests, this one is devoted to oil painting. It should be pointed out, though, that this…

  • New Argon Zark! webcomic page

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    It’s not that often that I feature my own work on Lines and Colors, but this is special occasion for me. I’ve just posted the first new page to my webcomic, Argon Zark!, in quite some time. I’m really pleased to have the comic moving again, and looking forward to continuing the story. (It will…

  • James McIntosh Patrick

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    James McIntosh Patrick was a Scottish painter active through much of the 20th century. Though he started as an etcher, and also painted portraits, he is known primarily for his landscape paintings of the Scottish countryside, both in watercolor and oil. His approach was often immediate and painterly but with rich textural detail and often…

  • Les animaux tels qu’ils sont

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    Les animaux tels qu’ils sont, which Google translates as “The animals as they are” is a book published in France in 1959 that offers 90 plus examples of how to draw animals using simplified geometric forms. Someone has apparently determined that the book now falls in the public domain, as the pages are available in…