Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape drawing

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    Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood, Rembrandt van Rijn. If I were writing an illustrated dictionary of art terms, next to “economy of notation” I would have one of Rembrandt’s drawings. Interestingly, for an artist whose paintings were primarily portraiture, many of Rembrandt’s etchings, and a high percentage of the drawings apparently done for…

  • Ashley Edge

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    Ashley Edge is an artist based in Manchester, U.K. who works primarily in graphite on board. He has begun to post illustrations to a blog, beginning with some interpretations of stories by Angela Carter and H.G. Wells. You will also find some graphite portraits, and reference to a project he is working on with designer…

  • Proko drawing tutorials

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    Proko.com is a website maintained by artist and teacher Stan Prokopenko, in which he offers a number of free drawing tutorials as well as a full length portrait drawing instructional DVD that can be purchased through the site. The free tutorials are among the best I’ve seen on the web, and to date feature instruction…

  • Aelbert Cuyp

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    Though he painted other subjects, Aelbert Cuyp is best known as one of the premiere landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age. His scenes of ships on the waterways of his native Dordrecht are filled with shimmering light effects, illuminated sails and glowing clouds. Even his humble scenes of cows grazing are given a romantic…

  • Dorian Vallejo

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    Dorian Vallejo is a portrait painter based in New Jersey. Though he sometimes sets his portraits in the more traditional toned or textured plain background, he often creates a kind of portrait that I particularly enjoy, with the subjects in background settings that are in some way relevant to the their personality. In particular, his…

  • Fred Lynch

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    Fred Lynch is an illustrator and gallery artist based in Massachusetts who is also a Professor of Illustration at Montserrat College of Art and a member of the Illustration Faculty at Rhode Island School of Design. His illustration clients include Random House, Viking Penguin and the Atlantic Monthly, among others. You will find a selection…