Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Review of Lines and Colors on Making a Mark
Katherine Tyrrell has posted a glowing and thoughtful review of Lines and Colors on her long running and highly regarded blog Making A Mark. In addition to being a prolific blogger, Tyrrell is also an artist, who I profiled in 2008. As part of her annual posts on art blogs, the “Making A Mark Art…
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Miles Hyman
Miles Hyman is an illustrator, comics artist and gallery artist. Originally from Vermont, he moved to France to study painting and drawing, and there began his career. He moved back to the U.S. for several years and then back to France, where he currently lives. His illustration clients include the New York Times, the Boston…
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Oops.
My apologies to those of you who have not been seeing updates for Lines and Colors since mid-December. I moved the site to a new server, and due to a technical glitch (a “short between the earphones”), those accessing the site as “www.linesandcolors.com” have not been seeing the updates, while those using just “linesandcolors.com” have…
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Van Gogh “selfies” (Self-portraits #9)
In his short career, spanning just 10 years, Vincent van Gogh painted a remarkable series of self-portraits, chronicling not only his evolution as a painter, but his often troubled emotional states. For a more complete list, see this page on Wikipedia.
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Eye Candy for Today: Jakob Schmutzer wash drawing
Landscape with a ruin near Mödling, Jakob Matthias Schmutzer Brown and grey ink, black chalk. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hi-res version here (1.7mb).
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Neil Welliver
Neil Welliver was an American artist who began his career in the middle of the 20th century as an abstract color field painter, and gradually moved into realism. He kept some aspects of modernist painting theory incorporated in his approach, however, and his large scale watercolor landscapes are composed of areas of relatively flat color,…