Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • 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.  

  • Steven Wiltshire

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    Steven Wiltshire was diagnosed as autistic at age 3, and at age 8 started to display an unusual talent for drawing. At 13 he was featured on a BBC program about autistic savants. In the years since then his work has been displayed in galleries and reproduced in several best-selling collections. The galleries here consist…

  • Flesk Publications

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    Flesk is a small publishing house that has issued wonderful collections of work from two of the best pen and ink illustrators in history: Joseph Clement Coll and Franklin Booth. Both are extraordinary in their own way. The site contains small galleries of both artists’ work. The work is reproduced at a smaller size than…

  • Nigel in Europe

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    OK. I’ll say right off that I love travel sketches. These are some nice ones, along with more finished paintings, created by a young artist from California as he made his way across Europe in a VW camper. Includes a journal of his travels, photos and some studio work.