Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Nicolas Martin

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    While many painters chase the character of light in the landscape, French painter Nicolas Martin more often seeks out the elusive qualities of artificial light in night-darkened streets and filtered sunlight in curtained interiors. His figures are revealed in the light, either as direct portraits or smaller within the context of the composition. Martin studied…

  • Ray Roberts (update)

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    I had the pleasure yesterday of attending a demo by California plein air painter Ray Roberts, who I initially wrote about in 2010. The demo was part of the schedule of the Wayne Plein Air Festival, the major such event here in the Philadelphia area, for which Roberts was this year’s juror. Roberts set up…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Adolph Menzel graphite drawing

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    Carl John Arnold, Adolph Menzel In the Morgan Library and Museum, use Zoom tab or download link. Menzel gives us a superbly adept rendering in pencil. The drawing feels at once finished and casual. Either the subject had a large head, or Menzel — after focusing on the portrait — compressed the figure somewhat to…

  • Elle Michalka

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    Elle Michalka is a painter, illustrator and concept artist, originally from Texas and now based in Los Angeles, where she has worked in the animation field for companies like Disney TV Animation, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network. Her credits include work on Gravity Falls and Steven Universe. Michalka also creates digital paintings of…

  • Sean Murtha

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    Connecticut based artist Sean Murtha brings his experience and sensibilities as a plein air landscape painter to his naturalist paintings of birds, imbuing them with a sense of being part of their environment — a feeling sometimes lacking in wildlife painting where too often the landscape is simply a backdrop for the animal subject. Ironically,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eakins’ Concert Singer

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    The Concert Singer, Thomas Eakins Link is to zoomable version on Google art Project; downloadble file in Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There is an article on the painting on Wikipedia. This striking portrait by Thomas Eakins is here in Philadelphia, where I’ve had the pleasure of studying it many…