Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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“Watercolour” at the Tate Britain
Watercolor, or watercolour, with an added “u” if you learned your English in England (grin), has a long history, perhaps going back to cave paintings that predate most of recorded history. Watercolor involves the creation of paint by suspending pigment in a water soluble binder, for a long time animal hide glues or plant sugars,…
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Adrie Hello
Adrie Hello ia a watercolorist based in Dordrecht, Netherlends. He paints townscapes of his city with atmospheric transparent watercolor and occasional touches of gouache. Hello often finds interesting subjects in streets and canals seen through mist or light rain, using soft washes of muted color contrasted with accented edges on the objects he wants to…
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Wil Freeborn
Wil Freeborn is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Though his professional portfolio focuses on his (quite nice) graphic design rather than illustration, his blog features a number of wonderful sketches. These are of a variety of subjects — cafe and store interiors, schoolrooms, townscapes, landscapes and a particularly nice series of…
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Machiavelli, online graphic novel by Don MacDonald
Niccolò Machiavelli was a 15th Century Italian diplomat, philosopher and writer, from whose political treatise, The Prince, along with other writings, we get the contemporary usage of his name in the term Machiavellian, referring to the use of deceptive cunning and planning in politics. Machiavelli himself, however, was hardly an example of the intricate political…
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Steve Hanks
Steve Hanks is a well known watercolor artist whose subject matter frequently focuses on female figures in interiors or landscapes. His subjects’ ages vary, from babies to women, as do their situations; some are nude studies, some evocative of mother and child tenderness, others children at play or women languidly posed on couches or beds.…
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Paul Madonna: All Over Coffee
“Predictable” is a word that, sadly, often applies to the contents of modern newspaper comics pages (what remains of them). In February of 2004 readers of the San Francisco Chronicle suddenly found themselves confronted with a new feature on the comics page, “All Over Coffee” by Paul Madonna, that set that notion nicely askew. As…