Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Lisa Gloria

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    Lisa GLoria is a painter from Illinois. Though she paints a variety of subjects, her focus is on still life. She is largely self-taught, and has developed a style with a nice balance between refinement and painterly immediacy. She now shares her experience in “virtual workshops” and videos, as well as in occasional process articles…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Kanoldt pencil drawing

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    View of Benevento, Edmund Kanoldt On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Getty Museum. A beautifully complete, but still economical, graphite drawing by the 19th century German landscape artist. I love the way he has handled the tone and textural variation in the distance, middle ground and foreground…

  • Paul W. McCormack (update)

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    Since I last wrote about Hudson River Valley based portrait artist Paul McCormack way back in 2006, he has established a new website which, I’m glad to say, features much larger images of his work (click on the images for enlargements). McCormack also maintains his McCormack Studio website, which includes additional paintings in watercolor and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Hanna Hirsch Pauli invites us for breakfast

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    Breakfast-Time, Hanna Hirsch Pauli There is an often overlooked sub-genre of painting that I particularly enjoy; for lack of a better term, it might be called “outdoor still life”. I’m hard pressed to think of a better example than this stunningly beautiful painting of a 19th century breakfast table in a sun-dappled garden by Swedish…

  • Cherngzhi Lian

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    Cherngzhi Lian is an artist based in Singaapore who works primarily in acrylic and watercolor, as well as drawing media. There are galleries on his website, largely of scenes from his travels in Bhutan. There is a drop-down menu for subjects, accessed from “Painting” on the left (though I found it cranky in my copy…

  • John O’Reilly

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    In urban scenes of walls, corridors, alleys and car parks — that most of use might pass by unnoticed — Irish artist John O’Reilly finds fascination with geometric shapes, muted color, weathered textures and patterns of light and shade. O’Reilly’s website has example of his urban landscapes, as well as wall art and murals. I…