Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer’s Hare
Hare (or Field Rabbit), by Albrecht Durer. Watercolor and bodycolor, roughly 10 x 8″ (35 x 22 cm). Wow. Stunning mastery of water media, and one of the most clear, focused and beautiful examples of artistic observation I’ve ever seen. On Google Art Project. Click on the image for zoom controls. Original is in the…
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Irena Roman
Irena Roman paints bright, crisp, transparent watercolors, both as illustrations and for gallery display. She particularly excels at the challenge of portraying the play of light across, through and around transparent or translucent objects and their often complex shadows. You can find a selection of her work on The iSpot, though the images a bit…
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John Singer Sargent on Met Museum website
Today is John Singer Sargent’s birthday. A search for his work on the wonderful, recently redesigned website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings up over 600 images. Yes, the iconic and astonishingly accomplished society portraits are well represented, and if you want to focus on those, you can limit your search to show only…
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Kiah Kiean
Kiah Kiean is an architect, designer and artist. He has a loose, gestural sketching style with which he renders scenes of his native Penang, Malaysia, as well as townscapes and cityscapes from his travels. Kiean works in ink, wash, graphite and watercolor. He posts images of his sketches on his artblog and Flicker stream and…
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Audubon’s Birds of America
If your impression of the paintings of French-American naturalist, ornithologist and artist John James Audubon is based on small reproductions of some of his more subdued bird images, you may be surprised by the views afforded in this terrific online resource. The University of Pittsburgh, which owns a rare complete edition of Audubon’s Birds of…
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Atanas Matsoureff
Bulgarian watercolorist Atanas Matsoureff has a deft command of the medium that allows him to be simultaneously exacting and free, textural and spare. In his still life subjects, Matsoureff’s paintings have a feeling of quiet contemplation, in his landscapes, a sense of quietly observing and listening to nature, and in his figures and portraits, a…