Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • Van Gogh’s Drawings

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    A few years ago I had the chance to see some of Van Gogh’s drawings at an exhibit in Philadelphia. I was stunned by how beautiful and how accomplished they were. Even though publishers tend to bypass his drawings in favor of the more popular paintings, I had seen some reproduced, but drawings suffer even…

  • Marshall Hopkins

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    Marshall Hopkins’ Lightning Studios is primarily a sketch blog in which the Brooklyn artist posts works in charcoal, pen, wash, graphite, watercolor and oil. Most of the pieces are for sale. Hopkins also does cartoons for The New Yorker. His website includes a selection of his cartoons and illustrations.

  • Steve Mumford

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    Steven Mumford is a New York artist who has made several trips to Iraq during the war and recorded his observations in a series of remarkable pen, inkwash and watercolor drawings. The images range from intimate portraits of soldiers to battlefield scenes to pictures of the local citizens who were much less reluctant to pose…

  • Practical Painting

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    This is an unpretentious little how-to artists magazine created by an individual artist (identified only as “Denise”). The site features compact, informative articles on art technique and tool basics such as choosing canvas, colors and brushes. Her “What Paint Colors do I Need” article, for example, is a quick introduction to choosing a split-primary color…

  • Wally Torta’s Journal

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    Wally Torta’s Journal is a wonderful sketchblog that ranges from simple and direct observations from everyday life to flights of fantasy to meeting doodles to cartoons and drawings in a style influenced by B. Kliban (one of my absolute favorite cartoonists). Most often, though, he seems to simply draw what’s in front of him. Worth…

  • Bill Mather

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    Bill Mather does paintings and portraits of women in a variety of media. He also does landscapes in acrylic and oil. The site in includes a number of nice sketches, as well as pieces from figure drawing classes. What I enjoy most, though, are his direct and lively portrait drawings.