Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Painting with casein paint
Casein (pronounced “kay’ seen”) is a water based paint in which the binder is the milk protein of the same name. Casein is one of the least familiar of the water based painting mediums available to contemporary painters, even though it’s one of the oldest painting mediums known. Casein’s use can be reliably traced back…
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Casein Painting in the Wild, James Gurney
Casein is a water based paint that uses milk protein as its binder. It shares many characteristics with gouache; both are water-based, opaque and dry to an appealing matte finish. Both dry quickly and can be used in concert with other water based mediums. Both are neglected step-children of watercolor and are somewhat on the…
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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…