Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Buvelot’s Yarra Flats
Yarra Flats, Louis Buvelot Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria, which also has a zoomable version. 19th century Australian artist Louis Buvelot was influential on the generation of Australian painters who followed, including those known as the “Australian Impressionists”,…
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Portraits in the Wild, James Gurney
As I have pointed out in previous reviews, painter, illustrator and writer James Gurney has in recent years been bringing us a wealth of instructional material in the form of books, videos and his always informative and fascinating blog, Gurney Journey. Not only has he contributed significantly to the canon of contemporary art instruction (as…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Shotter Boys watercolor
Le Pont Royal, Paris; Thomas Shotter Boys Watercolor and ink over graphite. Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which also has both zoomable and downloadable files. 19th century British watercolorist Thomas Shotter Boys has given us a view…
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Larry Francis (update)
Larry Francis is a Philadelphia artist, both in the sense of living in the city, and in taking the city as his subject. His scenes of Philadelphia’s parks, streets, buildings and people are vibrant with a kind of immediacy that testifies to his practice of working on location as much as possible, even in some…
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Bill Vrscak
Bill Vrscak is a watercolor painter and illustrator based in the Pittsburgh, PA area. He has a wonderfully appealing combination of solid draftsmanship and crisp but free application of color. I particularly enjoy his paintings that incorporate large areas of open space, which he expertly uses to guide your eye through his composition. On his…
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Art Venti
Art Venti is a California based artist who creates large scale works on paper in a variety of media, primarily color pencils, watercolor markers and watercolor. He classifies some of his compositions as “pencil paintings”. His subjects can perhaps be considered imaginary realism, representing swirls and curves of paper-like bands, twisted gossamer draperies and diaphanous…