Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout pencil drawing

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    The Castle at Heidelberg, Samuel Prout Pencil on paper, roughly 11 x 16″ (28 x 43 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. 19th century artist Samuel Prout give us one of those wonderful drawings that is simultaneously loose and precise, and shows us something of the process of its creation in…

  • Fritz Baumgarten

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    Fritz Baumgarten was a German children’s book illustrator active in the early to mid part of the 20th century. He illustrated numerous books, primarily in Germany, working in a nicely finessed combination of ink and watercolor. Baumgarten had a knack for blending the commonplace with the fantastic, putting his elf-like characters and anthropomorphized creatures into…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Joaquim Vancells, “February”

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    February, Joaquim Vancells Oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 60 inches (104 x 155 cm) Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Catalonian painter Joaquim Vancells invites us into a quiet forest landscape in the heart of winter. I…

  • Skip Whitcomb

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    Colorado painter Skip Whitcomb was trained in figure study and illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, but when he turned his attention to painting full time, he found his inspiration in landscape. His paintings revel in the light and textures of the visual world, rendered in both oil and pastel.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Paul Sandby gouache nocturne

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    Windsor Castle from Drachet Lane on a rejoicing night, Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Royal Collection Trust. Gouache on paper, roughly 12 x 18 inches (31 x 46 cm). The Google Art Project page has some interesting background on the…

  • Frank C. Pape

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    Frank Cheyne Papé was an English illustrator active in the early 20th century. He worked in both monochrome and color. His style varied from naturalistic to fantastic to comic, and he sometimes mixed those approaches within a series of illustrations for a single volume. Papé is not as well known as many of his contemporaries…