Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Watercolor and Gouache

  • Jared Shear

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    Jared Shear is a painter with several blogs. One is called Terra Peer, meaning “World View”, and is devoted to his view of the world as expressed in small, immediate landscape paintings and studies. He would probably prefer that I had chosen a more fully realized small painting to represent his work, rather than the…

  • Thomas Paquette

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    When I first saw Thomas Paquette’s small gouache paintings on the web a couple of years ago, my initial thought was that I wanted to see them bigger. I didn’t realize at the time that I was looking at them almost life size. His gouache paintings (image above, bottom row) tend to be quite small,…

  • Charles Robinson

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    Charles Robinson was an illustrator of children’s books in the “Golden Age” of illustration, a time roughly from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. His black an white illustrations are subtle combinations of line and stipple, often simple and at times simply silhouettes, at other times leaning toward a more elaborate, Art Nouveau style…

  • Laurelines (Laura Frankstone)

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    All artists go through periods of difficulty, where the act of creation becomes more of a chore than a joy, or ideas dry up, or we reach those plateaus where progress seems to cease, or we are pressed with doubt or even fear about our abilities (or lack thereof). When this happens, the logical thing…

  • Russell Stutler

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    You will often find information about pen and ink drawing, and there is certainly a a plethora of information about watercolor, but you seldom see mention of the meeting of the two. Born in Japan, raised in the U.S. and now living in Tokyo, Russell Stutler is an artist who has a fascinating site devoted…

  • Paris Breakfasts (Carol Gillot)

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    Ah, Paris, city of light, city of culture, city of romance, city of… breakfasts? But, of course! Paris Breakfasts is a delightful blog by watercolorist Carol Gillot. Part deja-travelog, part sketch-blog, part paean to sweets and the sweet life, it meanders from food to travel to watercolor technique, often in the course of the same…