Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Chris Ware – The Acme Novelty Date Book Volume Two
Chris Ware, who I wrote about here and here, has just released The Acme Novelty Date Book, Volume Two: 1995-2000. For those of you who are only familiar with Ware’s precise, carefully controlled marvels of precision comic art, these two volumes are something else altogether. Basically they’re sketchbooks, not that different in essence from sketchbooks…
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Bogota Painter William K. Moore
William K. Moore appears to live with a foot, and brush, in two worlds. Originally from Los Angeles, he has spent many years living in Bogota, Columbia and chronicling both cities in photographs and paintings. His primary blog, Bogota Painter William K. Moore, is set up as a “painting a day” blog. In it he…
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Laura Wilder
I first came across Laura Wilder’s unusual “house portraits” when doing research a year or so ago for a project I was working on with FusionSpark Media called the Florida-Friendly Interactive Yard. I was looking for reference on various styles of rendering houses and I was struck by Wilder’s approach. Though she sometimes uses watercolor…
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Virtual Gouache Land (Erik Tiemens)
Erik Tiemens is a concept artist and designer working for LucasFilm who also does gallery paintings in oil and gouache, as well as digital sketching. I first reported on Tiemens in September of 2006. Since then his web site doesn’t look like it has gotten a great deal of attention (there is still a promise…
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The Venice Chronicles (Enrico Casarosa)
I’ve mentioned Enrico Casarosa before. A multi-facetied artist who does storyboards for Pixar, but is also a character designer, comics artist, designer, illustrator, blogger and dedicated sketcher. Casarosa is the instigator of the Sketchcrawl drawing events. Last summer Casarosa took a trip to Veince, that most magical of Italian cities, and instead of just making…
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James Akers
I’m constantly amazed at the way in which we, as artists, allow ourselves to be locked into restrictive little boxes by accepting and participating in an unspoken hierarchy of the artistic value of different genres of visual arts. Those in the fine arts community, even within all of the strata it contains, look down on…