Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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The Inscrutable Eye: Sargent watercolors at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
For those in the Boston area who missed the show of Sargent Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Art, (which I mentioned here on
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The miniature marvels of Simon Bening
Prior to the mid-16th century, watercolor was primarily used for the painting of miniatures in illuminated books. These hand-painted and inscribed volumes were usually devotional, but sometimes were essentially calendars. Perhaps the greatest and last Flemish master of this form was Simon Bening. He was a member of a family of artists. His father, Alexander…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Fraser Garden bridge
St. Ives Bridge, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire; William Fraser Garden Watercolor, pen and gray ink, with touches of gouache on paper, 14×18 in (35x46cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and zoom or download arrow.
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Catherine Drabkin
I had the opportunity over the weekend to attend a gouache workshop at the Delaware College of Art and Design (where I teach a course in Animation for the Web), conducted by Catherine Drabkin. Drabkin was a founding faculty member of the college, and has recently relocated to Pittsburgh. Drabkin works in oil and drawing…
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Sargent's Alligators
In response to my recent post about Rembrandt’s elephants, there were suggestions that perhaps alligators were not getting their proper representation as subjects for great artists. In return, I give you John Singer Sargent’s beautiful watercolor of Muddy Alligators, and some related drawings. Original is in the Worcester Art Museum; slightly larger version on WikiPaintings.…
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Urban Sketchers blog turns 5
The Urban Sketchers blog, which I first wrote about in 2008, just marked its 5th anniversary (the corresponding Flickr group is about a year older). There are sketches from contributors around the world to this blog, the tagline of which is: “See the world one drawing at a time”. In addition to pencils, pens, markers…