Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2026

  • The Undraped Artist Podcast

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    Years ago, when Apple’s popular stand-alone music player was called the “iPod”, programs, independently produced on a low budget, usually interviews and primarily audio only, came to be called “podcasts”. These days, the format is often meant to be enjoyed either in audio or with accompanying video, and the YouTube landscape is full of them.…

  • Théo van Rysselberghe

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    Théo van Rysselberghe was a Belgian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is generally considered a Neo-Impressionist or Post-Impressionist. He was classically trained and throughout his career explored a variety of styles and influences but focused primarily on Divisionism (AKA Pointillism). Divisionism is a style associated with the French painter…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Auguste Lepere etching

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    Old Housea at Amiens, Auguste Lepère, etching. This is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in DC, which has a high resolution downloadable and zoomable image file. For some reason, they don’t list the etching’s physical size. My guess from the size of the needle marks would be around 5×7″ (13 x…

  • Eye Candy for today: Jean-Etienne Liotard pastel portrait

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    Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven Years of Age, Jean-Étienne Liotard, pastel on vellum, 22 x 18 in. (55 x 45 cm), in the collection of the Getty. 18th century Swiss artist Jean-Étienne Liotard gives a beautiful demonstration of the sensitivity and finess possible in pastel. There is a subtle teture throughout, likely…

  • Serge Pelle

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    Serge Pellé is a French comics artist known best for his work on the science fiction series Orbital (Amazon link), along with writer Sylvain Runberg. Pellé’s dramatic scenes of futuristic structures, often in deep perspective and extensive detail, are set off by imaginative spacecraft designs intense lighting and otherworldly creatures. It’s an entertaining series available…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Egyptian encaustic portrait

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    Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, Egypt, Roman Period, encaustic on wood panel, 15 x 8 in. (38 x 19 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What appears at first glance to be a sophisticated contemporary oil portrait, is, in fact, an encaustic painting that is roughly 2,000 years old. Painted in…