Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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John Salminen
John Salminen’s watercolors of urban scenes are rich with beautifully finessed textures, nuanced value relationships and subtle juxtaposition of high chroma passages against more muted colors. He has a particularly appealing technique of leaving sparkling highlights within broader textural areas of treetops and foliage, together with a sensitivity to the effects of light in a…
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Audubon’s wild turkeys
Great American Hen & Young. Vulgo, Female Wild Turkey. Meleagris gallapavo, John James Audubon Image from Wikipedia, original source: University of Pittsburgh. The American wild turkey is so removed from the rotund form of contemporary commercial farm turkeys as to be almost unrecognizable as related. Like most of our commercial poultry, the latter have been…
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Eye Candy for Today: John William Hill’s Plums
Plums, John William Hill Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on Bristol board, 7 x 12 inches; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The enlargement on the museum’s website is actually in greater detail than the crops I’ve provided here. I love the rendering of the fruit in this simple, direct study: fastinatingly textural close-up, but naturalistic…
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Thomas W Schaller (update)
From my point of view, there are schools of watercolor painting in which the approach is too loose — with ill defined forms and insufficient attention to edges — and others in which the approach feels too restrained — locked into rigid delineation. Watercolor at its best, I think, is found not only in between…
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Gemi
Gemi is the professional name used by a Japanese illustrator who works in watercolor (or its digital equivalent, I’m uncertain); and whose compositions often center on a lone young woman in contemplative situations. Though some of her work is of more commonplace subjects, in the stylistic vein of manga and anime, much of it is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adolph Menzel’s View from a Window
View from a Window in Marienstrasse, Adolph Menzel Image on Surprised by Time blog (scroll down), direct link here. Gouache over chalk on paper, 12 x 9 inches (30 x 23 cm). Original is in the Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten, Winterthur