Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Houel’s View of a Sepulchre
View of a Sepulchre in the Underground Grotto near the Church of S.Nicola on the Island of Lipari, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel In the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Gouache on paper, roughly 12×12″ (30x30cm) This beautiful gouache painting by the 18th century French painter Jean-Pierre Houel conveys a wonderful feeling for both the shadowed recesses of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Harpignies’ View of Moulins
A View of Moulins, Henri-Joseph Harpignies In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom icons under the image on their site. At once straightforward and poetic, this view of a town in central France by the Barbizon painter is a beautiful example of the evocative power of watercolor. Harpignies combines solid draftsmanship,…
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Tissot’s Adoration of the Shepherds
The Adoration of the Shepherds, James Tissot This is one of a remarkable series of 350 paintings — done primarily in gouache — in which Tissot depicted events in the New Testament of the Bible relevant to the life of Christ (see my pervious post on James Tissot’s series, “The Life of Christ”). At the…
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Chris Dunn
Chris Dunn is an English illustrator and gallery artist whose most recent project is a series of watercolor paintings inspired by the classic children’s story The Wind in the Willows. Dunn has a wonderfully finessed style, combining a visceral, tactile realism with a delightful portrayal of his anthropomorphic animal protagonists. There is a warmth and…
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Anna Mason
Anna Mason is an English botanical illustrator and watercolor artist. She often works at a relatively large scale, and her paintings have an appealing blend of detail, texture and color. Mason is self-taught, and only 18 months after beginning botanical painting, won a Royal Horticulture Society medal for botanical arts for a sequence of 20…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Henry Hunt ink and watercolor interior
Interior of Bushey Church, William Henry Hunt Pen and brown ink and watercolor, roughly 17×13 in. (42x33cm) The link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; the original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The NGA has downloadable files, though you need a free account to access the largest one. This…