Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: John William North’s Spring
Spring, John William North Watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 11×17″ (29x43cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The delicate value contrasts and stippled tones of North’s watercolor give a wonderful sense of those early spring days in which both the atmosphere and the land seem ripe with the promise of future…
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Edward Harrison Compton
Born in Germany to English parents, Edward Harrison Compton was a landscape painter and illustrator active in the early 20th century. Compton began his training under the tutelage of his father, landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton, and went on to study in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. His desire to follow…
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James Gurney’s Fantasy in the Wild
In his “In the Wild” series of instructional painting videos, painter, illustrator, writer and instructor James Gurney has previously given us Watercolor in the Wild and Gouache in the Wild (links to my reviews), delving into the use of those mediums on location. He has followed up with an interesting variation, Fantasy in the Wild:…
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Albert Goodwin
Albert Goodwin was an English painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Goodwin started his artist career early, coming under the tutelage or Pre-Raphaelite painters Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown at an early age, and exhibiting at the Royal Academy at the age of 15. I his later career he was…
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Minh Dam
Originally from Hanoi, Vietnam, Minh Dam is an architect and watercolor painter based in Poland. He is the founder of Lineare Art Studio in Warsaw, and a co-founder of the Polish Watercolor Society. Minh Dam’s primary focus in his paintings is cityscape. He take as his subjects cities in Poland and other parts of Europe,…
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Deborah Walker
UK watercolor painter Deborah Walker often takes as her subjects the dramatic rock and chalk cliffs of the southern coast of England. In doing so, she uses the open whites to great advantage in portraying the shimmer of light across water and the craggy surfaces of the chalk walls. Her other favored subjects also frequently…