Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Watercolor and Gouache

  • Michael Robear

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    The watercolors of northeastern Maryland artist Michael Robear would be striking enough in any context — crisply rendered in muted palettes, with intriguing narrative elements bordering on magic realism — but they are particularly arresting in their individualized sculptural frames. In addition to being a painter, Robear is a sculptural metalworker and also works with…

  • Helen Allingham

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    Helen Allingham was a Victorian English watercolor painter and illustrator. Born Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson, Allingham was encouraged by a grandmother and aunt, who were established artists, and took to art early on. She studied at the Birmingham School of Design and then at the women’s school of the National Art Training School (later renamed…

  • An Object at Rest

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    An Object at Rest is an animated short (5 mins) by Seth Boyden that chronicles the eons-long life of a stone as time, and human activity, goes on around it. In this and some of his other animated shorts, Boyden has combined animation done in the TV Paint application with backgrounds painted in traditional watercolor…

  • William Stanley Haseltine

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    William Stanley Haseltine was a 19th century American painter who studied in the US and Europe. Originally from Philadelphia, where he studied at the University of Pennsylvania and exhibited early in his career at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he moved to New York, for a time working out of a building that…

  • Online art supply as a resource for pigment information

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    This is not a review or endorsement of any online art supplier; I think all of the well known ones are probably fine, and each has their plusses and minuses. This is about a resource that a particular art supplier, Dick Blick, offers as part of their online catalog. When browsing for paints — whether…

  • Anton Batov

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    Anton Batov is a Russian artist and illustrator based in Moscow. He is also a senior lecturer in design and graphic design at D. Mendeleyev University Of Chemical Technology Of Russia. I particularly enjoy Batov’s landscape and cityscape watercolors, many of which are painted on location. Even in his more finished studio watercolors, he carries…