Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Paint the Parks 2009

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    Paint the Parks 2009 it the third installment of an annual competition sponsored by PaintAmerica, a non-profit association ‘devoted to providing opportunities for artists all across America”. They sponsor two artist competitions, PaintAmerica Top100, which happens in the fall, and Paint the Parks100, for which the call for entries deadline is May 31, 2009. The…

  • Birds and Bees — Sheridan Illustration Council

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    The Sheridan Illustration Council (which, if I’m not mistaken, is part of Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada), is holding an exhibit themed Birds and Bees as a fundraiser for the benefit of the 4th year graduating class. From the press release: The Sheridan Illustration Council proudly presents the Birds and the Bees Fundraiser Group show.…

  • Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

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    As I pointed out in my previous post about Gustave Caillebotte, he is one of my two favorite underappreciated French Impressionist painters (along with Alfred Sisley). Though he was not the draughtsman Degas was (few were), or as facile with brush and color as Monet or Pissarro, Caillebotte nonetheless epitomized many of the characteristics we…

  • Eyvind Earle (update)

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    I first wrote about illustrator, animation art director and painter Eyvind Earle back in 2006. Since 2007, I’ve been waiting for a new site promised to be “Coming soon April 2008” at eyvindearle.com to materialize; but as the promise is unchanged as we approach April of 2009, that looks unlikely. Fortunately, in the meantime, some…

  • Boyko Kolev

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    Boyko Kolev is a Bulgarian artist about whom I have little background information. Most of what I know is simply gleaned from his web site, which offers no biographical profile, and his space on deviantART, which has a few odds and ends. His painting style might be classed as hyperrealism, though he seems to play…

  • Takashi Murakami

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    It’s interesting to note that Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was the only visual artist included on Time magazine’s 2008 “100 Most Influential People” list. Not that I put that much stock in such lists, but it’s a glimpse of the wide ranging notice Murakami is receiving. Muuakami’s style covers a wide range as well, with…