Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Craig Nelson

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    After a career as an illustrator with clients in the recording and movie industries, California artist Craig Nelson transitioned into gallery art full time. Nelson has a lively, painterly approach in his paintings of landscapes, towns and portraits. Some of his recurring subjects include workers in vinyards, the narrow streets and canals of Italian towns,…

  • Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

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    Mary Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was an Edwardian period English illustrator, gallery artist and stained glass designer. She studied at the Crystal Palace School of Art and then at Royal Academy, and was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society. She illustrated children’s books, Authurian ledgends and poetry by well known authors including Tennyson and Browning. She worked…

  • Vincent van Gogh Gallery

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    Tough perhaps not definitive in terms of image quality or resolution, the Vincent van Gogh Gallery is nonetheless a terrific resource on the iconic Dutch artist, notable for the breadth of the material it presents. As a labor of love for 14 years, Canadian David Brooks has attempted to collect an online catalog raisonné of…

  • Lisa Brawn

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    Lisa Brawn is a Canadian artist working in the medium of woodcut. Unusual enough these days, she adds several elements to the process that make it even more unique. One is her choice of wood. Woodcut a painstaking relief printmaking process in which the “negative” areas, those not to be printed, are carved away leaving…

  • Scientific Analysis of Rembrandt’s Techniques for Guiding the Eye

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    Artists have long known, whether by intuition or study, how to direct a viewer’s eye through a painting. It’s always interesting, though, when researchers attempt to codify and study these aspects of vision and perception in scientific experiment. Researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Vision Lab recently turned their attention to Rembrandt’s incisive and…

  • Artists’ Self Portraits with Palettes

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    In a link from the article mentioned in my previous post on Master Artists’ Palettes, Lucy Davies pointed to a search on the Bridgeman Art Library for “self portrait palette“. This turns up range of artists’ self-portraits with their palette in hand, a fairly common arrangement given that the artist is usually holding a palette…