Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: John Carlin watercolor portrait miniature
Portrait of a Lady, John Carlin Watercolor on ivory, roughly 4 x 3 inches (9 x 7 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s possible that this is a grayscale image of a more colorful painting — the Met’s website pages doesn’t comment — but my guess is that it was…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Holman Hunt watercolor still life
Still Life with Plums, William Holman Hunt Watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 14 inches (30 x 37 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. (Zoomable and downloadable versions of the image are available on the site.) A beautiful and sensitively observed still life by the Pre-Raphaelite master. It appears to be…
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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth drybrush & watercolor
Flat Boat, Andrew Wyeth Watercolor and drybrush, roughly 22 x 29 inches (56 x 74 cm). Image and link is from a 2013 Christie’s auction sale. While I don’t always respond as strongly to his more formal and conceptual works, I very much like Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors and drybrush watercolors, in which he is just…
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Andrew Davidson
in an age of digital illustration, Andrew Davidson is a UK illustrator who uses some of the most traditional illustration techniques from previous centuries, wood engraving, color woodcuts and gouache painting. The result is a delightful blend of traditional and contemporary sensibilities. Some of his wood engravings, in particular, have a great feeling of illustration…
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James Gurney’s Painting Animals from Life
James Gurney has an uncanny ability to take on challenging painting subjects, and then make his methods clear and easy to understand in low cost, high quality instructional videos. In his newest video, Painting Animals from Life, he tackles the problems of painting animal subjects that move and change position, and shows how to successfully…
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Matthew Cook (update 2018)
Matthew (Matt) Cook is a UK artist and illustrator who I have featured previously (and here), mostly in reference to his fascinating role as a reportage illustrator in the middle-east war zones. In this post, I’d like to focus instead on his more recent travel sketches and paintings. Most of these are done in a…