Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Watercolor and Gouache

  • Edmund Dulac

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    French illustrator Edmund Dulac began his career in the first decade of the 20th Century, just as the new technology of color separation was making the economical printing of color book plates possible. Dulac moved to London because of the publishing opportunities and was soon working as an illustrator in the new genre of illustrated…

  • Bernhard Vogel

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    I’m not always fond of artists who engage in the loose application of watercolor. Too often it results in a feeling of formlessness and lack of control over the materials. German watercolorist Bernhard Vogel manages to make his application of the paint seem as loose as can be while still exercising the kind of restraint…

  • Joe Ciardiello

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    Sometimes there is a fine line, if you’ll excuse the expression, between drawing and painting. Illustrator Joe Ciardiello manages to walk on both sides of that line at will by developing his color work out of his black and white drawing style. His black and white drawings have a wonderfully loose and lively line quality,…

  • Jane Tomlinson

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    In one way or another, all artists make choices about subject matter. Our subjects define our work as much as our style, approach or materials. UK watercolorist Jane Tomlinson, who was trained in printmaking and paperworks but is self-taught as a painter, paints sunflowers, animals, scenes from her travels abroad, and scenes of “Earth Magic”…

  • handprint : watercolors and
    watercolor painting

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    handprint is the personal site of Bruce MacEvoy. The home page displays an unlabeled group of eight graphic symbols reflecting entry points to the sections of the site, which are a rather bizarre amalgam of his personal interests, from literary experiments to essays on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, human evolution and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of…

  • Roger Dean

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    Technology giveth and technology taketh away. A few years before our wonderful digital art tools came into use, illustration lost one of its more prominent vehicles as LP records were replaced by digital audio CDs, and the golden age of album cover art drew to a close. Yes, there is still nice work being done…