Lines and Colors – Page 107

Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.

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Randy Glass

July 28, 2015

Randy Glass is a well-known illustrator who specializes in the pen and ink technique of stipple, in which a multitude of carefully placed dots — sometimes of varying size — coalesce visually to create tone.

It’s a technique adapted to the relatively low resolution of newspaper printing, in which the artist has more control over the final appearance of the illustration than a mechanically generated screen applied to a continuous tone image.

It also has the effect of being visually appealing in its own right, particularly when the dots are large enough to also provide surface texture. It’s especially pleasing to my eye when the dots are arranged in patterns of flow that help define the volume and topology of the face, as in the “hedcut” portraits Glass and a select group of other illustrators draw for the Wall Street Journal (above, middle rows).

Glass also does wonderfully expressive portraits in monochromatic watercolor (above, bottom three).

www.randyglassstudio.com
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Related Lines and Colors posts:
Noli Novak (hedcuts)
My article in the Spring 2014 issue of Drawing Magazine
Virgil Finlay (update)

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Illustration, Pen & Ink
Grzegorz Wróbel (update)

July 27, 2015

Grzegorz Wróbel is a Polish watercolorist who I first wrote about in 2010.

Wróbel’s background in architectural design gives his cityscapes and street scenes a feeling of effortless strength that belies the complex challenge of perspective and rendering they present.

He deftly steps between detail and suggestion, giving his compositions both a tactile immediacy and and a feeling of loose, painterly handling. Particularly effective is his use of light and shadow amid the architectural forms to give them dimension and presence.

His website is in Polish, but just use the drop-down menu under “Galeria” to browse galleries. Be aware that the Exhibition 2012 gallery has sub-galleries. In addition, there is a section of tutorials.

You can also find his work on his deviantART gallery, including a number of portraits, and on the site of Galeria Sztuki Napora.

For more, see my previous post on Grzegorz Wróbel.

http://grzegorz-wrobel.com
deviantART gallery
Galeria Sztuki Napora

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Gallery and Museum Art, Watercolor and Gouache
ColourLex

July 27, 2015

Back in 2012, I wrote about a website called Pigments through the Ages; a resource about the history and nature of artist’s pigments. That site is 10 years old now, and as far as I know, is no longer being actively developed.

However, one of the original authors of that site, Juraj Lipscher, has created a new, more extensive and currently active site on the same subject, titled ColourLex.

The ColourLex site can be explored through multiple paths: by pigments, paintings, artists and periods, each with sub-paths. Pigments, for example, can be explored by type, color or first date of use.

Each pigment is then broken down by properties, sources, identification and history, and a gallery is provided of important paintings in which the pigment was prominently used.

Lipscher’s background is as a PhD in physical chemistry. He brings his experience in teaching and lecturing at the college level to the presentation of his fascination with the history of artists’ pigments.

New material is being added on an ongoing basis; the most recent additions of pigments and paintings are listed on the home page.

In addition, there are resources on paintings, painters, pigments and methods of scientific investigation of pigments used in historic paintings.

ColourLex is a fascinating resource, and a terrific crossover between art and science.

http://colourlex.com

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Color, Gallery and Museum Art, Tools and Techniques
Eye Candy for Today: Girolamo dai Libri’s Madonna and Child with Saints

July 26, 2015

Madonna and Child with Saints, Girolamo dai Libri

Tempera and oil on canvas; 16th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download icons under the image.

To my mind, this could be titled “Madonna and Child with Laurel Tree“, so striking is the tree’s presence, painstakingly detailed and dominating the composition.

Along with that, the most notable features are the angelic faces of the Madonna and the other women, and the monumental geometric solidity of the Durer-inspired landscape.

The male “saints” look to me like carefully portrayed portraits of patrons or clergy, most interesting for the “painting within a painting” of their decorated robes. The angel trio — in the foreground but smaller than the other figures — seem almost like musical stage accompaniment, as if in an orchestra pit in front of an opera.

The peacock is rendered with Audubon-like accuracy and the distant mountains have the surreal feeling common in early landscapes in which the atmospheric distance is indicated with a distinct shift in color, but without the softening of detail most often present in reality and in later paintings.

Particularly impressive to me is the beatific face of the woman to our right, lovingly rendered and reminiscent of Botticelli’s mythic figures.

Madonna and Child with Saints, Met Museum

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Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art
Sung Choi

July 25, 2015

Sung Choi is a concept artist based in Seattle, working in the gaming and entertainment industry.

His concept work is dramatically atmospheric, with subdued colors and muted values not only creating depth but mood.

Choi has tuned his digital painting tools to create a very brushy, painterly effect, and uses the same characteristics in what I assume are digital plein air paintings.

[Via Concept Art World]

www.sung-choi.com
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Henry John Boddington

July 25, 2015

Victorian painter Henry John Williams took his wife’s last name as Henry John Boddington to distinguish himself from the prolific Williams family of painters from which he came.

Boddington, whose only formal instruction was from his father, painter Edward Williams, developed a style rich with the textures of landscape, often revealed in dramatic almost theatrical lighting. He also gave many of his paintings great depth, carrying the backgrounds into the distance with layers of atmospheric perspective.

Boddington painted his lush, detailed landscapes of the English countryside in various locations throughout England and Wales, but did not follow many of his contemporaries in traveling to the continent or to the Mediterranean basin.

Henry John Boddington on The Athenaeum
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Gallery and Museum Art