Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer watercolor of cypress trees
The Cypresses at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Samuel Palmer Original is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file on their site. You can also find a zoomable version on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. You can see —…
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Adilson Farias
Adilson Farias is a Brazillian children’s book illustrator based in Curitiba. Farias works both in watercolor and digital media, using the characteristics of both to advantage. His work in watercolor often has a loose, informal charm in the application of color. In his digital pieces, he combines precision line work with a jaunty drawing stule…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Rackham illustration for Götterdämmerung
The ring upon thy hand — / … ah, be implored! / For Wotan fling it away! (from Götterdämmerung) One of the many beautiful and sensitively realized illustrations the brilliant “Golden Age” British illustrator Aurhur Rackham did of the stories from Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” series of operas. From this set on Wikimedia Commons. For…
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David Wiesner
David Wiesner is a children’s book illustrator and author, known for titles like The Three Pigs, Flotsam, Mr Wuffles, Tuesday and Art & Max. His website doesn’t have a straightforward portfolio of artwork, but is instead arranged as archived articles, some devoted to a specific title, that include artwork. Wiesner varies his approach somewhat to…
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Robert J. O’Brien
Robert J. O’Brien is a painter working in watercolor, originally from New York and now living and working in Vermont. O’Brien has a particular focus on architectural and floral subjects. The apparent perfection of flowers are contrasted with his choice of architectural subjects, which are often intimate, close-in views of buildings or other man-made objects…
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Stan Miller
Spokane Washington based painter Stan Miller works in both watercolor and egg tempera, taking as his subjects portraits, landscapes, and in particular, scenes of Venice. The play of light across textural surfaces plays a key role in all of his compositions, whether revealing the turn of form in a face and head, illuminating the textures…