Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Stephanie Law
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,…
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Artem Rogowoi
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…
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Frank Sherwin
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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ludwig Richter’s Genoveva
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…
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Eye Candy for the Winter Solstice: Winter Landscape, Stepan Kolesnikoff
Winter Landscape>, Stepan Kolesnikoff, gouache Another wonderful winter gouache painting by Stepan Kolesnikoff. As far as I have been able to tell, Kolesnikoff was born in Ukraine when it was considered part of the Russian Federation, and after studying and working in Russia for a time, settled in what is now Serbia. Happy Winter Solstice!
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Mildred Anne Butler
Though she frequently traveled to England and the continent — and studied in Paris — Irish watercolorist Mildred Anne Butler primarily painted en plein air in the area around her home in Kilmurry. Butler was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a member of the Royal Academy and the Royal…