Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Amusements

  • Peter Fiore (update)

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    Peter Fiore is a painter based in northeastern Pennsylvania, who I first profiled back in 2012. Fiore often takes his fascination with light — particularly the horizontal light of early and late in the day — into the woods, where he seeks rhythm and balance in the intricate patterns formed by the trunks of trees…

  • 365 Postcards for Ants, Lorraine Loots

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    365 Postcards for Ants was a yearlong project, from January 1 to December 31 or 2013, in which South African artist Lorraine Loots set out to paint one miniature painting per day. Along the way, her process evolved into a kind of collaboration with visitors to her site who would “reserve” a painting, and suggest…

  • One stroke dragon tails

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    These videos on YouTube show an interesting approach to brushwork, in which the artist varies pressure on a large loaded brush to make a stylized dragon’s tail in a single stroke — albeit a slow one. There are several videos, but they lack identification for the artist, and though the style and approach is similar,…

  • Gilbert Legrand

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    French artist Gilbert Legrand takes common objects like household tools, garden implements, plumbing fixtures, paintbrushes and cleaning supplies — adds the occasional bit of extra material, and paints the resulting objects with faces and other characteristics — to produce his delightfully whimsical sculpture/assemblages. In addition to his sculptures, he has a section in his site…

  • Vladimir Gvozdeff

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    Vladimir Gvozdeff (Gvozdev) is an artist from (if I’m not mistaken) Slovenia Russia [I was mistaken, see this post’s comments], who works in both two and three dimensional media, often combining them in the same work. On his website, I found two series of particular interest. One is of mechanisms — clockwork animals drawn out…

  • April Fool-the-eye Day: trompe l’oeil by Andrea Pozzo

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    Instead of a fake post, or some similar nonsense, let’s celebrate April Fool’s Day with a nice bit of “fool the eye” (trompe l’oeil) by Andrea Pozzo. This is his false dome for the Jseuit Church in Vienna, a fresco painted on a gently curved surface on the ceiling. This is essentially a anamorphic projection,…