Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera
I’m not one of those who thinks that the use of optical devices like a camera obscura ( Wikipedia ) or photographic reference is in some way “cheating” or diminishes the value of an artist’s work. Artists have always used whatever visual aids were available to them, from grids of string across viewing frames to the old “thumb on the pencil” sighting trick. Thomas Eakins and Degas experimented with photographic reference when photography…

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Apparently movie directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are both avid collectors of the work of the great American illustrator Norman Rockwell. Unlike those of us who might indulge in a fondness for Rockwell by collecting old Saturday Evening Post covers, Lucas and Spielberg can afford to collect Rockwell’s originals, and have done...
Pencil vs. Camera is project by Belgian painter, illustrator, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine , in which he draws part of a scene, usually in a fanciful interpretation of it, and then takes a photograph of the drawing held up against the original scene or photograph. The drawing is usually on a ragged-edged, odd shaped piece of paper,...
Stephen Scott Young is a renowned contemporary watercolorist and etcher whose works are in major collections and museums. Young was born in Hawaii, moved to Florida with his family at the age of 14, and studied printmaking at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota. His watercolor technique, which frequently makes use of drybrush, is self-taught,...
In 1984, the first episode of Thomas and Friends aired on the British network ITV. The name “Thomas and Friends” was converted to “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” in 2003 and was shot in Shepperton Studios.
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Enemy of the Impressionists, vilified by the modernists, autocratic teacher of Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins and several painters who would later be labeled American Impressionists, and one of the most controversial, successful and popular painters of the last half of the 19th Century, Jean-L
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Artist Name: J D Hillberry Location: Westminster, Co Title of Artwork: A String of Memories Dimensions of Artwork : 14 x 18 Medium: Charcoal and graphite Support: White watercolor paper Website: http://www.jdhillberry.com Describe this Piece: This entire image is drawn including the background, tape, and string. It is considered trompe l’oeil...
Since I wrote my post about the great 19th Century German landscape artist Caspar David Friedrich back in 2006, many additional resources for viewing his work have appeared on the web; and there is a new exhibition of his work, Caspar David Friedrich — Nature Animated along with a complimentary exhibit, Friedrich, Eight Contemporary Commentaries...
I don’t normally feature photography on Lines and Colors, not that I don’t think of photography as an art form; I just feel that it’s dealt with better on many other sites, and seems different enough to be in a separate category from the art forms I feature. But the photographs of Michael Paul Smith just charmed my socks off,...
pencil drawing. this is how i spend my usual thursday nights and here’s the reference! http://dark-odyssey.deviantart.com/art/PRETTY-EYES-DIRTY-MOUTH-61519895
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I’ve written before about Karin Jurick , both about her own wonderful paintings and her ongoing group painting blog, Different Strokes From Different Folks in which numerous artists paint their own interpretation of the same photographic resource in periodic challenges. I also wrote last year about the Different Strokes From Different Folks...
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