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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CJ Hendry

April 28, 2015

I have to say that I’m consistently unimpressed with most of the “amazing photorealist drawings” that seem to proliferate as click-bait around the web, but the large scale pen drawings of Australian artist CJ Hendry are a notable exception.

Hendry takes as her primary subjects fashion items — designer shoes and handbags in particular — and renders their often shiny leathery surfaces at a large scale as detailed tone drawings in ink, created with fine point markers in a combination of hatching and stipple.

Hendry’s work has become quite popular and in demand with collectors.

Unfortunately, Hendry doesn’t appear to have a dedicated web presence other than an Instragram account, and most of the images I can find are of work in progress, or Hendry holding up the finished piece, rather than a photo of the work itself.

Many of the drawings highlighted on her Instagram page, and on articles about her, are from a recent project in which she completed 50 drawings of various food items in 50 days.

There is a brief process video on Vimeo.

[Via DCAD Library]

CJ Hendry on Instragram
Analogue/Digital
You the Designer
ArtNau
Colossal
Vimeo

Categories:
Drawing, Gallery and Museum Art, Pen & Ink
Eye Candy for Today: Manuel Ocaranza’s Love of the Hummingbird and The Dead Flower

April 27, 2015

The Love of the Hummingbird and The Dead Flower, Manuel Ocaranza

Links are to zoomable versions on Google Art Project, downloadable version of The Love of the Hummingbird and The Dead Flower on Wikimedia Commons, originals are in the Museo Nacional De Arte of Mexico (no images).

The Love of the Hummingbird is a charming genre set piece — as much as still life as it is a portrait/figure study, but together with The Dead Flower, the two paintings may be intended to tell a morality tale — in which the promise of blossoming love suggested in the former is echoed in a metaphor of lost virtue in the latter.

The model is different, but the theme and compositional elements are very similar; the lily, in particular, links the two and can serve as a metaphor for the young woman’s virginity.

Though Ocaranza never officially tied the two works, they were painted during the same period, and displayed together when first revealed; it’s generally assumed they are meant to be related.

The Love of the Hummingbird, Google Art Project
The Dead Flower, Google Art Project

Categories:
Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art
Ettore Roesler Franz

April 25, 2015

Ettore Roesler Franz was a 19th century German/italian painter, noted in particular for his watercolors of Rome.

A number of these comprise a series titled “Roma sparita” (loosely: “Vanished Rome”), meant in part to record scenes of buildings and landmarks the he feared would be demolished in an effort to modernize the city.

His watercolors are wonderfully textural, with dramatic value contrasts and great use of perspective.

Frustratingly, examples of his work online are scattered and frequently smaller than one might hope. Wikimedia Commons has quite a few, but most are small (though there is a nice larger version of the image above, top here). You can find larger images with a Google search of Sothebys or Bonhams auction sites (below).

The best single source I’ve found otherwise is ettoreroeslerfranz.com, which has a better selection of images at a larger size than Wikimedia Commons. Unfortunately, the site is poorly organized (image sections are linked on the left), and the site plays music at you, and I can’t find a way to turn it off — so use at your own risk of annoyance.

Ettore Roesler Franz on Wikimedia Commons, also here
www.ettoreroeslerfranz.com
Google search of Bonhams.com
Google search of Sothebys.com
Google search of Christies.com
Andrea Pollett’s Roma
Beni Culrurali
Brief bio on Wikipedia

Categories:
Gallery and Museum Art, Watercolor and Gouache
American Dreaming

April 25, 2015

American Dreaming is an as yet unreleased documentary on mid 20th century American car design art, the artists and designers who created it and the attempts of art collector Robert Edwards to collect and preserve as much of it as possible.

Much of this art was meant to be destroyed by the car manufacturers who commissioned it, lest their advanced designs, even the unused ones, fall into the hand of competitors.

The artists themselves saved some of the art, smuggling it out of the company offices in false-bottom boxes and by other means, rather than seeing it destroyed.

PBS has a selection of about a dozen examples on their website.

(Images above: George Krispinsky, Ben Kroll or Richard Arbib, Del Coates, Charles Balogh)

Auto sketches from Detroit’s golden era you were never meant to see, PBS.org

Categories:
Illustration
“Celebrating Women Artists” at Arcadia Contemporary

April 24, 2015

Arcadia Contemporary, a gallery in NYC that focuses largely on contemporary art in the representational tradition, has a new show titled “Celebrating Women Artists” in which they are showcasing work by six women artists from among the artists they represent.

The show features three painters, two sculptors and a photographer. I’ve featured images of work by the painters above.

“Celebrating Women Artists” will be on display until May 20, 2015. After that point, the online gallery to which I’m linking will change to the next show, so I’ve provided links to the individual artists’s sites below.

(Images above, 2 per artist: Nancy Depew, Dianne Gall, Alessandra Peters (Alessandra Maria)

“Celebrating Women Artists“, Arcadia, to 5/20/15 (link will change to new show at that point)
Artist’s individual websites:
Nancy Depew
Dianne Gall
Alessandra Peters (Alessandra Maria)
My previous post on Nancy Depew

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Gallery and Museum Art
Eye Candy for Today: H Siddons Mowbray’s Idle Hours

April 21, 2015

Idle Hours, H. Siddons Mowbray

Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikipedia, original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Though not in the kind of exotic location common to the Orientalist paintings that were fashionable the time, Mowbray has dressed is models in oriental costume as they languorously while away their time watching pet turtles eat lettuce.

Mowbray’s composition is softly harmonious, with rich but subdued colors, gentle value transitions and restrained brushwork.

Idle Hours, Google Art Project

Categories:
Eye Candy for Today, Gallery and Museum Art