Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Painting

  • Build Your Own Easel (Ben Grosser)

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    Ben Grosser is an artist and composer who also directs the Imaging Technology Group at the Beckman Institute. As a painter, Grosser paints large scale non-represenational works. After being frustrated early in his painting career by the cost of large easels that would accommodate his desire to paint large canvasses, he decided to build his…

  • American Artist’s Self-Portrait Competition

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    I’ve always been fascinated by self-portraits (not that I’ve done that many myself). Here is not only the artist’s personality expressed through their work, but through their own inner or outer vision of themselves. Many of history’s great paintings have been self portraits, from Durer and Rembrandt to Sargent and Van Gogh, artists have made…

  • ArtDemonstrations.com

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    ArtDemonstrations.com is a blog in which the author has collected and shares links to various art demonstrations and tutorials he has come across on the web. Some of them are more useful than others and they take several forms, from a few steps in a painting process shown as photos, to longer step-by step breakdowns,…

  • Kevin Turcotte

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    Kevin Turcotte is another of those artists who has a somewhat vague web presence. I don’t think he has a site of his own, but he posts his small paintings as a participant in the group blog, Paintopolis. He shares Paintopolis with James Martin, Jeremy Engleman and Marty Havran. There is little direct information about…

  • Simon Otto

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    Though there aren’t many pieces available online, the variety of subject, medium and approach, and the high quality of each, make the sketchblog of Simon Otto well worth a visit. Otto’s blog is actually just excerpts from his contributions to insert name here, a group blog he shares with several other talented artists, who, like…

  • Project Gutenberg eBooks, Masters of Water-colour Painting

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    It’s nice to start the new year by looking forward, but it can be just as instructive to look back; and there are some great resources that make looking back easier and more fruitful than ever. Project Gutenberg is a great idea. Not just in the sense of “great” as “terrific”, but in the sense…