Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Watercolor and Gouache

  • Hiroshi Yoshida (update)

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    Early 20th Century painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida is known in his native Japan as a Western style artist, and his work is very much in demand. Having trained in Western style painting, he carried those influences with him when he moved into traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking, also taking inspiration in subjects from his travels…

  • Keiko Tanabe

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    Originally from Kyoto, Japan and now living in San Diego, California, watercolor artist Keiko Tanabe has traveled extensively and applied her eye and brush to scenes from Japan, China, France, Italy and the U.S. Her beautifully atmospheric watercolors capture a sense of time and place, accomplished with careful control of color, suggestions of texture and…

  • Reykjavík Center Map

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    The interactive Reykjavík Center Map, which at first glance might appear to be a Google Earth style map with computer modeled buildings in isometric perspective, is in fact a hand-illustrated image, apparently in pen and ink and watercolor. I can’t find specific credits for the art, but one of the team who worked on the…

  • Nina Johansson

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    Swedish artist, designer and teacher Nina Johansson subtitles her website “Because drawing is good for you”, and its pages are filled with the ripe, healthy fruit of that philosophy, lots of wonderful drawings, sketches and watercolors. Johansson seems to take as her favorite subject that most perfect of all drawing subjects — what’s in front…

  • Elizabeth Traynor (update)

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    I first wrote about Elizabeth Traynor in a post in 2006, in which I expressed my admiration in particular for her scratchboard illustrations (and gave a brief description of the scratchboard process). In addition to her scratchboard work (images above, 1 & 4), her online portfolio also showcases her work in pen and ink, often…

  • Michael Reardon

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    Michael Reardon shows a master watercolorist’s skill for handling edges, from the delicate tonalist softness of mist shrouded foliage to the crisp sharpness of architectural forms, often contrasted in adjacent passages within the same work. Reardon’s deft handling if architectural subjects, and the strong geometry underlying his compositions, no doubt owes something to his thirty…