Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Sketching

  • Laurelines (Laura Frankstone)

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    All artists go through periods of difficulty, where the act of creation becomes more of a chore than a joy, or ideas dry up, or we reach those plateaus where progress seems to cease, or we are pressed with doubt or even fear about our abilities (or lack thereof). When this happens, the logical thing…

  • Russell Stutler

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    You will often find information about pen and ink drawing, and there is certainly a a plethora of information about watercolor, but you seldom see mention of the meeting of the two. Born in Japan, raised in the U.S. and now living in Tokyo, Russell Stutler is an artist who has a fascinating site devoted…

  • Paris Breakfasts (Carol Gillot)

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    Ah, Paris, city of light, city of culture, city of romance, city of… breakfasts? But, of course! Paris Breakfasts is a delightful blog by watercolorist Carol Gillot. Part deja-travelog, part sketch-blog, part paean to sweets and the sweet life, it meanders from food to travel to watercolor technique, often in the course of the same…

  • invisibleman

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    invisibleman is a collaborative art blog where you’ll find a variety of art: drawings, paintings, sketches, cartoons, graphic design, illustrations and photographs, in a variety of media: pen, pencil, oil, watercolor, acrylic, print and digital, on a variety of surfaces: Moleskine pages, paper, canvas, posters, billboards, guitars and who knows what else, by a group…

  • 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.

  • Steve Mumford

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    Steven Mumford is a New York artist who has made several trips to Iraq during the war and recorded his observations in a series of remarkable pen, inkwash and watercolor drawings. The images range from intimate portraits of soldiers to battlefield scenes to pictures of the local citizens who were much less reluctant to pose…