Katherine Tyrrell has posted a glowing and thoughtful review of Lines and Colors on her long running and highly regarded blog Making A Mark.

In addition to being a prolific blogger, Tyrrell is also an artist, who I profiled in 2008.

As part of her annual posts on art blogs, the “Making A Mark Art Blog Awards” are a 2013 end-of-year series of awards and reviews for art related blogs in several categories. In the case of Lines and Colors, the category is a new one, “The Showcase Shield”, for art blogs that showcase the works of other artists.

I can easily return the recommendation, in that Making A Mark is consistently one of the most varied and informative art blogs on the web, and if you haven’t visited yet, I suggest that you do.

However, not only is Making A Mark itself extensive and far ranging, it’s a cornucopia of links to other resources. Some are to Tyrrell’s own network of blogs, Squidoo lenses and other informative resources (many of which are also jumping off points to other resources), and the rest are links to other blogs and websites. There is so much to be viewed and visited, that I will issue a sort of award of my own: my Major Timesink Warning. Enjoy!

My apologies to those of you who have not been seeing updates for Lines and Colors since mid-December.

I moved the site to a new server, and due to a technical glitch (a “short between the earphones”), those accessing the site as “www.linesandcolors.com” have not been seeing the updates, while those using just “linesandcolors.com” have been seeing the more recent posts as they were made.

Fixed now. Sorry. Enjoy catching up.

-Charley

In his short career, spanning just 10 years, Vincent van Gogh painted a remarkable series of self-portraits, chronicling not only his evolution as a painter, but his often troubled emotional states.

For a more complete list, see this page on Wikipedia.