Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: Johannes Bosboom church interior
Southern aisle of the Great Church at The Hague, Johannes Bosboom In the Rijksmuseum; downloadable image also on Wikimedia Commons. The credits say “pencil, chalk and brush”, but it certainly looks like some watercolor to me. This is one of those drawing/painting combinations that is simultaneously loose and precise. There is also a beautifully subtle…
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Alina Chau (update)
Alina Chau is a painter, illustrator and animation artist whose whimsical images are rendered in lively applications of watercolor. Her work includes elements of children’s book illustration, concept design, naturalistic painting, stylized design elements and the influence of traditional Chinese ink painting. I particularly enjoy the way she incorporates design elements, textures and patterns into…
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Paul Dmoch
Paul Dmoch is a Belgian painter whose watercolors are playgrounds of light. In them, light sparkles, bounces, glows, splinters and plays hide and seek amid the complexities of cathedral interiors, Venetian canals, narrow streets, dappled courtyards, open plazas and architectural landmarks of several cities. Light is an actor in his paintings, alternately coy and bold,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugène Ciceri winter scene
Winter Scene with Two Men, Eugène Ciceri In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image. Ciceri’s wonderful evocation of winter is at once both drawing and painting; naturalistic and stylized; controlled and free; monochromatic and yet rich with “color” in a way similar to Chinese ink paintings.
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Stepan Kolesnikoff (Kolesnikov)
I came across the work of Stephan Fedorovich Kolesnikoff (alternately spelled Kolesnikov or Kolesnykov) while poking through some Russian language blogs, and had a “Woah! Who is this?” reaction. After searching up a bit more of his work, Kolesnikoff immediately went on my list of favorite artists who work in gouache. Though he also did…
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Eugène Galien Laloue
Though others have taken on the style and subject matter over time — continuing to this day — there are four artists that I associate with a particular approach to painting the subject of Paris during the Belle Epoch (around the turn of the twentieth century): Luigi Loir, Edouard Leon Cortès; Eugène Galien Laloue and…