Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • Pencils!

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    It’s often said that the greatest joy comes from the simplest things. In these days of gel pens, precision markers, synthetic brushes, high-tech plastic paints and digital painting software, it’s easy to overlook the humble pencil, which was actually something of a technological marvel itself at one time. Pencils were created after the first major…

  • Anthony J. Ryder

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    Tony Ryder is a contemporary realist who does still lifes and, in particular, figure and portrait paintings and drawings, with meticulous attention to detail and superb draftsmanship. His site offers galleries of both paintings and drawings, as well as information about his teaching schedule and workshops. Ryder is the author of the well-regarded book The…

  • Bill Mather (update)

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    Bill Mather loves to draw and paint women. If that wasn’t obvious enough from the galleries on his site, he’s named his blog Painter of Women. I wrote about Mather in September of last year. Since then he has added to his online galleries and started a blog. The blog isn’t frequently updated, so you’ll…

  • Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

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    In one of my recent posts I was talking about the place of value in painting. It brought to mind one of the greatest masters of value and tone, both in painting and drawing, whose chalk figure drawings are among my favorites by any artist. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon was a French painter of the Romantic era,…

  • Rembrandt Drawings and Prints at the Met & Morgan

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    A friend just reminded me that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is also honoring Rembrandt’s 400th birthday (see my post from last Saturday) with a special show drawn from their collection: Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints (July 11 – Oct 15, 2006). If you’re in range of New York, this…

  • Tim Knowles

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    This is about trees drawing. No, that’s not a typo for “tree drawings” or “drawing trees”, I mean “trees drawing”. I’m always fascinated with notions of what drawing is or can be. Tim Knowles has been working on a series of tree drawings that are actually drawings made by trees. Knowles sets up the conditions…