Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Watercolor and Gouache

  • Ian Sidaway

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    Ian Sidaway is an English artist and author or illustrator of numerous books on art instruction. Working primarily in watercolor, Sidaway portrays the english countryside — and places to which he has traveled — with crisp, clear, naturalistic compositions that have a distinct feeling of atmosphere, time and place. In his books, he has been…

  • Pierre Commarmond

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    Pierre Commarmond was a French landscape painter and poster artist, most recognized for his delightful railroad travel posters created in the 1920s and 30s. I particulary enjoy posters of this kind; their flat colors and strong design elements remind me of color woodcuts. I believe many of the original paintings for these were done in…

  • Stephanie Law

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    Stephanie Law is a watercolor painter from California. Her work ranges from straightforward botanical art to fantastical imaginings with a botanical feel, to stylized animal and plant forms, to fairie images that evoke a feeling of 19th century European illustrators like Rackham and Dulac. Her watercolor paintings often incorporate elements of metal leaf and ink,…

  • Artem Rogowoi

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    Ukrainian painter Artem Rogowoi works primarily in oil, often augmented with gold leaf. He also does smaller studies in gouache in which he plays with expressionistic color schemes. Rogowoi studied at the Kharkiv State Art College and the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts. His work has been featured in numerous exhibition in Ukraine, the…

  • Frank Sherwin

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    Frank Sherwin was a British artist active in the early to mid 20th century. He is best known for his delightful travel posters, as well as his traditional watercolors. He also painted watercolors for a number of “carriage prints” (images above, bottom, with details). These were horizontal format banners displayed in railway cars for the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ludwig Richter’s Genoveva

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    Genoveva, Ludwig Richter, watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 7 in (31 x 18 cm); in the collectin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of th elarge image. This painting by 19th century German painter and printmaker Adrian Ludwig Richter depicts the legend of Genoveva, a woman…