Category: Displaying Art on the Web
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20 Years of Lines and Colors
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in Animation, Anime & Manga, Art Materials, Art Videos, Cartoons, Color, Comics, Concept & Visual Dev., Digital Painting, Displaying Art on the Web, Drawing, Gallery and Museum Art, High-res Art Images, Illustration, Museums, Painting, Paleo Art, Pastel, Conté & Chalk, Pen & Ink, Prints and Printmaking, Reviews, Sc-fi and Fantasy, Sculpture & Dimensional, Sketching, Tools and Techniques, Vision and Optics, Watercolor and Gouache, WebcomicsAs of today, August 22nd, 2025, I have been writing Lines and Colors for 20 years! It started on August 22nd, 2005 with an article on the Art Renewal Center. On August 22nd, 2015, I celebrated with a post about the first 10 years, in which I gave a retrospective and described my aims in…
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Elias Bancroft
Elias Mollineaux Bancroft was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beyond that, I can find little in the way of background or biographical information. Though he also took on other subjects, Bancroft apparently had a fascination with depicting walls and buildings made of stone or block. These he approached…
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted woodland interior
A Woodland Stream, Peder Mørk Mønsted Link is to Wikimedia Commons, which has a high res version of the file. The original was sold through Sotheby’s in 1987 and is presumably still in a private collection. As far as I can tell, the majority of Mønsted’s paintings seem to be in private collections. He is…
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“Secret Life of Trees”, Dina Brodsky
Dina Brodsky is a painter and miniaturist who I have featured previously on Lines and Colors. In July of last year, she embarked on a project to draw 126 individual drawings of trees, each with its own distinct personality — tree portraits, if you will — starting with the drawing shown above, top, and ending…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pieter Claesz Peacock Pie
Still Life with Peacock Pie, Pieter Claesz In the National GAllery of Art, DC, with zoomable or downloadable image, also downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons. It’s interesting to compare this large (30,51inches, 77x129cm), sumptuous still life to a similar composition in the collection of the Rijksmuseum that I featured previously, Still Life with a Turkey…
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10 years of Lines and Colors
Today marks the 10th anniversary of my first post on Lines and Colors, on August 22, 2005. My initial intention for the blog — which you can read more about here — is still basically the same: to introduce my readers to wonderful art and artists that they may not be familiar with, or to…