Still Life with Brass Candlestick, John Stuart Ingle — watercolor on paper, 29×42″ (75x107cm).
A beautiful bit of watercolor realism by contemporary American artist John Stuart Ingle.
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use the Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.
Link: Still Life with Brass Candlestick, Met Museum
WOW! ! ! Just . . . WOW! ! ! Watercolor? ? ? The texture in the fruit, the pattern in the tile, the faint pattern on the napkin? WOW!
I agree with Sherrill. Thanks, Charley!
Please, do not miss reading his obituary in the StarTribune by Laurie Blake, that is updated on November 8, 2010
http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/106862423.html
John Camp’s book, The Eye and the Heart: Watercolors of John Stuart Ingle [Hardcover]
is a must-have/essential. It contains 32 reproduced watercolours and more.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Eye-Heart-Watercolors-Stuart/dp/0847808882
ISBN for The eye and the heart by Pulitzer Prize winner John Camp aka John Sandford is
The Eye and the Heart (1988) ISBN 0-8478-0888-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sandford_(novelist)
What a treat!
That’s the most realistic and seamless watercolor I’ve ever seen. I especially like grout and the texture on the knife.