Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Gibrat comics panel
Quai de Valmy, Flight of the Raven, Jean-Pierre Gibrat; ink, watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 25 x 20 inches ( 65 x 51 cm). Link is to listing on Christie’s auction, where the original art sold for almost 44,000 Euros (roughly $46,000). The listing desctiption is in Franch; (Google Translate to English here). This…
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Joseph Zbukvic (update)
Joseph Zbukvic is a well known painter who is considered a modern master of watercolor, and I would add that within that discipline, he is also a master of suggestion. His paintings of urban scenes, rural landscapes, harbors, boats and many other subjects often appear rich with intricate detail, but on closer inspection reveal that…
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Richard Thorn
While it’s not unusual for artists to transition from a career in commercial art to gallery art, English artist Richard Thorn came to painting from a career as a jazz musician. Thorn uses watercolor in a manner I particularly enjoy — lots of crisp, controlled edges balanced with softer ones and still maintaining a feeling…
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Peter Jablokow
Peter Jablokow is a watercolor painter from Illinois with a particular fascination for industrial forms, often weathered and rusted, which he renders with a feeling for texture as well as color and values. Many of his paintings use dramatic compositions with severe perspective and unusual angles of view. In some cases the entire composition is…
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Eye Candy for Today: detail from ink and color scroll by Wang Hui
The Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji’nan to Mount Tai, (detail), Wang Hui; ink and color on silk. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is just the beginning image from a hand scroll that is roughly 26 inches high and over 45 feet long (68 x 1394 cm). Wang…
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Myles Birket Foster
Myles Birket Foster was a British painter, engraver and illustrator active during the mid to late 19th century. He worked primarily in watercolor, as well as engraving and drawing media. He was noted for his landscapes, a subject of his that I run hot and cold on. I like those that focus on the evocation…