Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • William Hays

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    Though he also works in oil, Vermont artist William Hays found an initial diversion into reduction linocut prints to be so compelling that it is now the focus of his artistic endeavors. Reduction printing is a color printmaking technique in which a single block, in this case linoleum, is carved, printed in a color, and…

  • Benjamin Constant

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    Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was a French Orientalist painter active in the late 19th century. Though his work was popular and in demand during his time, he is not well known today. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is currently featuring an exhibition of work by Constant and his contemporaries: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism: From Spain…

  • Henry John Yeend King

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    English Victorian painter Henry John Yeend King studied painting in London and in Paris, learning both traditional academic techniques and the new plein air methods that were coming into practice. Yeend King specialized in landscape and genre paintings of rustic scenes, often with young women going about their chores, gathering flowers, waiting for and riding…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Wilmer Dewing silverpoint portrait

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    Portrait of a Woman, Thomas Wilmer Dewing In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download icons under the image. Original sheet is roughly 22 x 19 in. (57 x 48 cm). The portrait is drawn in silverpoint, the most prevalent of the variations of metalpoint drawing. The artist draws with a thin…

  • Jennifer Diehl

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    Originally from Wisconsin and now based in Oregon, Jennifer Diehl is a painter who brings a controlled but lively palette and painterly sensibility to a range of subjects: still life, landscape, cityscape, interiors, and figurative. Her landscapes feel fresh, unhurried and naturalistic, while still retaining the immediacy of location painting, and she often plays with…

  • Eye Candy for Today: William Logsdail’s St Martin in the Fields

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    St Martin in the Fields, William Logsdail Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Tate Britain. I love the atmosphere in this painting of London’s Trafalgar Square by Victorian painter William Logsdail — the wetness of the stone, the textures of fabrics, and the…