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Category: Watercolor and Gouache

  • Wil Freeborn’s Coffee Spots

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    Wil Freeborn is an illustrator and designer based in Gourock, Scotland. I mentioned his work on Lines and Colors back in 2010. Freeborn likes to do location sketches in watercolor and/or ink. Late last year, he painted a series of watercolors of coffee shops in and around areas he visits. They were composed in a…

  • Joseph Alleman

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    Utah painter Joseph Alleman works in both watercolor and oil, though watercolor seems to be his primary medium. Many painters in watercolor seek to take advantage of the transparent brilliance it makes possible, resulting in lots of high-chroma watercolors. Alleman takes a different track, seeking in watercolor its delicate and subtle qualities, variation in soft…

  • John Salminen

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    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…

  • Audubon’s wild turkeys

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    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…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John William Hill’s Plums

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    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…

  • Thomas W Schaller (update)

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    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…