Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Watercolor and Gouache

  • Urban Sketchers (update)

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    Urban Sketchers is a group blog that I first wrote about last November. Since then, hundreds of additional sketches have been added; and the blog’s layout has been updated, with a wider format and better organizatation (though I still wish they would somehow limit the Flickr slideshow widget at page bottom to a single page…

  • Presidential Portraits (Rick Tuma)

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    With lots of attention being paid to the inauguration of the new American President today, here’s a set of portrait drawings of the 43 former U.S. presidents by Rick Tuma, a staff artist for the Chicago Tribune. The series is posted as a special feature called Presidential Portraits on the Tribune’s web site. Tuma painted…

  • Urban Sketchers

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    I just discovered the Urban Sketchers blog a couple of weeks ago, and it immediately became one of my favorites. I enjoy location sketches done in an urban environment, particularly travel sketches, and the blog has much of that feeling, even though the contributors are often sketching in their home city. I came across Urban…

  • Seth Engstrom

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    Seth Engstrom has worked as an art director, concept artist, layout artist and production designer for animated features like Avatar, Bee Movie, Shark Tale, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmeron, Sinbad and El Dorado. His blog contains an interesting range of images, from color and black and white concept art from the above mentioned films to…

  • Timothy J. Clark

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    Though he apparently paints in oil as well, I have been unable to find anything but images of watercolors while searching for pantings by Timothy J. Clark. The watercolors are certainly enough, though. Crisp, clear, confidently rendered and deftly executed, Clark’s landsacpes, architectural views and room interiors are revealed in often theatrical compositions with dramatic…

  • John Singer Sargent

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    Wow, that guy could paint! This was essentially my response when I first encountered the work of John Singer Sargent back in my art school days. I was disappointed, though, to find that the art history books treated him with less regard than I expected. “Facile”, “highly skilled” and “renowned portrait painter”, seemed to be…