Category: Watercolor and Gouache

Mark Stewart is a Texas based watercolor painter and architect. Though his architectural training shows in his adept representation of rural buildings and interior spaces, I find it interesting that the majority of his paintings appear to focus on organic landscape elements and portraits rather than citycapes. Stewart lists among his influences Winslow Homer, Andrew…

Milind Mmulick is a painter based in Pune, India, who paints in watercolor, primarily transparent, but also works with opaque watercolor (gouache). He often takes a nicely textural approach when portraying cityscapes and landscapes, conveying the gritty feeling of paving stones and weathered walls with passages of dry brush and spatter. He uses both muted…

Grzegorz Wróbel is a Polish watercolorist who I first wrote about in 2010. Wróbel’s background in architectural design gives his cityscapes and street scenes a feeling of effortless strength that belies the complex challenge of perspective and rendering they present. He deftly steps between detail and suggestion, giving his compositions both a tactile immediacy and…

Italian artist Ottorino De Lucchi works with watercolor in a technique he calls “watercolor drybrush”. This is not the typical use of that term, meaning passages with a brush on which only a small amount of paint is present — normally used to create textural strokes. Instead, he refers to a specific technique of applying…