Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: Dürer’s Large Piece of Turf
The Large Piece of Turf, Albrecht Dürer Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted to board, roughly 16 x 12 inches (41 x 31 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Albertina, Vienna. For its small size and unassuming subject, this painting ranks among…
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Bob Rudd
Bob Rudd is a British painter who works in both watercolor and oil, though watercolor is his primary focus. His colorful landscape and architectural subjects are depicted with an interesting range of technique, from loose and free to more exacting. In what I feel are some of his most interesting compositions, he combines in the…
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Mateusz Urbanowicz
Originally from Poland, Mateusz Urbanowicz is a concept artist, animator, illustrator and painter currently living in Tokyo. Urbanowicz works in ink, watercolor, gouache and acrylic gouache, as well as in digital media. On his website and other online portfolios, you’ll find a selection of his professional and personal work. I particularly enjoy his series of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Léon Bonvin still life
Still Life on Kitchen Table with Celery, Parsley, Bowl, and Cruets; Léon Bonvin Watercolor over pen and ink and graphite; roughly 7×9 inches (17 x 22 cm). In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore which has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the image. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project, and…
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Shari Blaukopf
Shari Blaukopf is a watercolor painter based in Montreal. She is a dedicated location sketcher, and you can find her sketches on a dedicated blog, as well as in a section on her website, and on the Urban Sketchers blog. Even in her more finished work, she maintains a feeling of the informal immediacy that…
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Alexander Votsmush (Shumtov)
Alexander Votsmush is a Crimean painter who works in watercolor. The name “Votsmush” is actually a pseudonym — a rearrangement of his actual name, “Shumtov” — that he adopted in his college days. Votsmush has a unique and very appealing approach to his watercolors — part graphic, part paintlike, with skewed verticals and horizontals, or…