Lines and Colors art blog

Author: cparker

  • Eye candy for today: Johannes Verspronk portrait

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    Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 in. (104 x 79 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. I hadn’t heard of 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Verspronk until I came across…

  • Lynn Boggess (update)

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    I first wrote about West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess back in 2014. As an introduction, I will quote myself from that post: —In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used “troweled on” as a metaphor to describe the heavy application of paint. In the case of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jasper Cropsey’s Autumn – On the Hudson River

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    Autumn – On the Hudson River, Jasper Francis Cropsey, oil on canvas, 60 x 108 in. (152 x 275 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Aart, DC, which has both a zoomable image and a downloadable high res file available. Cropsey was a 19th century American architecht and first generation Hudson River…

  • Oliver Bonhomme

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    Oliver Bonhomme is a French illustrator and art director with a long client list that inludes le Monde, the New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Apple and numerous others. His illustrations look at first to be high in chroma, but then you realize the colors are not actually that intense, but are made to…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Martin Heade orchid

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    Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, Martin Johnson Heade, oil on wood, 14 x 18 in. (35 x 46 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of art, DC. which has a large downloadable image. Though he also painted wonderful landscapes, Martin Heade’s standout subjects are his portrayals of exotic flowers and birds. Here, he…

  • Angela Hao

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    Angela Hao lives and works in the U.S., but makes virtual visits to Japan via Google Street view, capturing the charm of small, quirky storefronts in digital ink and watercolor style illustrations she creates in Procreate. These are delightlfully whimsical and take note of the small details that give each little store its own personality.…