Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Painting

  • Sargent in Venice (J.S.S. Virtual Gallery)

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    I recently returned from my first visit to Venice(!), dazzled and eager to revisit Sargent’s watercolors of that amazing city. I had the chance to see several of them at the Sargent show in D.C a few years ago, and I’ve admired them in books for years, but it’s different after having been there. This…

  • A Painting a Day (Duane Keiser)

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    What a great idea this is and how I wish I had the time/discipline to emulate it! Duane Keiser is a Virginia artist. In addition to his regular work he has set himself the admirable goal of painting one small painting every day. Most of them are small oil sketches (he calls them “Postcard Paintings”).…

  • Marshall Hopkins

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    Marshall Hopkins’ Lightning Studios is primarily a sketch blog in which the Brooklyn artist posts works in charcoal, pen, wash, graphite, watercolor and oil. Most of the pieces are for sale. Hopkins also does cartoons for The New Yorker. His website includes a selection of his cartoons and illustrations.

  • Alex Ross

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    Ask comics fans about Alex Ross and you’ll get mixed but strong opinions. Many think his highly rendered watercolor and gouache comic illustrations “inappropriate” for comics storytelling, others find his work exciting and beautiful. I fall into the latter camp and have a tremendous respect for his water media technique. I also have no problem…

  • Practical Painting

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    This is an unpretentious little how-to artists magazine created by an individual artist (identified only as “Denise”). The site features compact, informative articles on art technique and tool basics such as choosing canvas, colors and brushes. Her “What Paint Colors do I Need” article, for example, is a quick introduction to choosing a split-primary color…

  • Bill Mather

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    Bill Mather does paintings and portraits of women in a variety of media. He also does landscapes in acrylic and oil. The site in includes a number of nice sketches, as well as pieces from figure drawing classes. What I enjoy most, though, are his direct and lively portrait drawings.