Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eye Candy for today: Maximilian Liebenwein illustration
Walk of Mary across the mountains, Maximilian Liebenwein. Maximilian Liebenwein was an Austrian/German illustrator active during the “Golden Age” of illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I’m unsure what the medium is here, but it looks like watercolor and gouache to me. I sourced the image from here, larger version here. For…
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Eye Candy for Today: Winslow Homer watercolor & gouache
Fresh Eggs, Winslow Homer; watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 9 x 8 inches (24 x 19 cm). Original is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable images on their site. In this simple, unassuming study of a commonplace chore, Homer shows us the ability of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Frits Thaulow, pastel and watercolor on canvas, roughly 22×36″ (55×92 cm). Link is to past auction on Christie’s (large image here), I would assume present location is a private collection. No one painted the surface character of small streams, winter or otherwise, like 19th century Norwegian Painter Frits Thaulow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Fragonard wash drawing
View of an Italianate park with figures, a villa behind, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, brown wash over brown ink lines and black chalk, roughly 13 x 11″ (33 x 47cm); link is to Sotheby’s past auction, large image here. In this beautifully sensitive drawing, 18th century French painter, draftsman ad printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who specialized in such…
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Gradients: Color, Form and Illusion
I received review copy of Gradients: Color, Form and Illusion, a new instructional video from painter, illustrator, writer and teacher James Gurney. The concepts behind making gradations of color in visual art can seem as though they should be simple, until you find yourself trying to paint something like different bands of color on a…
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Cathy Hillegas
Cathy Hillegas is a painter in watercolor based in Indiana, who combines vibrant color with a tactile sense of texture in her paintings of flowers, trees, woods and fields. Particularly appealing to me are her paintings of small natural elements, leaves, branches, the heads of ferns and other aspects of nature, seen up close. In…