Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Pastel, Conté & Chalk

  • Tiona Marco

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    Minnesota artist Tiona Marco does landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, still life, wildlife and botanical drawings, all in her medium of choice, Crayola Crayons. That’s right, good ol’ big yellow box of ’em, wax in paper wrappers, wears down to a nub in your hands, drew with ’em when you were five, Crayola Crayons. She doesn’t add…

  • Leonardo’s Drawings

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    Leonardo da Vinci is one of those artists, like Rembrandt, Monet or Van Gogh, who is obscured from us by the brilliance of his fame. It is almost impossible to look at Leonardo without the attendant baggage of his reputation as the ultimate embodiment of the Renaissance, one of the most brilliant minds in history,…

  • Daniel Hauben

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    My wife and I were in New York City on Saturday; and while walking through Columbus Circle we came across Daniel Hauben, his French easel balanced on the edge of a fountain, painting a complex and large scale pieln air painting of a view down Eighth Avenue. Most often, plein air painting is associated with…

  • Johnnie Scoutten

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    Johnnie Scoutten is a designer and creative director who also paints and draws in a variety of media. I’m not sure if she chooses the medium to suit her subject or whether she chooses the subject for how much fun it will be to render in the medium. I suspect it’s often the latter. The…

  • Frezzato (Massimiliano Frezzato)

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    Massimiliano Frezzato, (usually referred to, Elvis-style, as simply Frezzato) is a highly regarded Italian comics artist. Frezzato was born and lives in Torino, site of the current Winter Olympics. (how’s that for a topical tie-in?) Although he has worked an a number of projects and short features he is best known as the artist of…

  • Daniel E. Greene

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    Daniel E. Greene is widely recognized as one of the foremost portrait artists in the US. He has created portraits of numerous leaders in industry, government, academia, science, art, medicine and other areas, including Eleanor Roosevelt, astronaut Walter Schirra, author Ayn Rand and William Randolph Hearst. His work can be found in the collections of…