Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Eya Candy for Today: Stillman’s Love’s Messenger
Love’s Messenger, Marie Spartali Stillman, watercolor, tempera and gold paint on paper, 32 x 26 inches (116 x 100 cm). I’ve stood in front of this beautiful painting in the Delaware Art Museum more times than I can count, marveling not only at the beautiful composition and subtle color, but at the remarkable painting technique…
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Eye Candy for Today Mrs Smith watercolor of plums and caterpillars
Branch with a cluster of ripe plums and caterpillars, Mrs. Smith; watercolor, roughly 10 x 10 inches (25 x 25 cm). Link is to the image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The image is credited to “Mrs. Smith”, based on a pencil signature at the lower right…
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Carl Larsson
Carl Larsson was a Swedish illustrator and gallery artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he also worked in oil and painted large frescos, Larsson was primarily known for his watercolors. With a deft hand and a light touch, he depicted family and home in particular. In many cases, he used…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hellen Allingham landscape
The Basket Woman, Hellen Allingham; watercolor; roughly 14 x 21 inches ( 37 x 55 cm); link is to past auction on Sotheby’s; large image here. Victorian era English watercolor artist Helen Allingham was noted for her depictions rural life; in particular her paintings of traditional thatched roof cottages, which she idealized a bit by…
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Ernst Grillhiesl (“ErnstG”)
Ernst Grillhiesl, who signs his work “ErnstG”, is a contemporary German painter who works in watercolor. His landscape subjects usually include architectural elements, often set almost on the horizon with a deep but de-emphasized foreground. Grillhiesl’s style is a combination of crisp, precise rendering of buildings and other artificial objects and a looser, somewhat softer…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hiroshi Yoshida watercolor
Autumn in a Japanese Village, Hiroshi Yoshida; watercolor on paper, roughly 13 x 20 in. (33 x 50 cm); link to image is on Ukiyo-e Search; I don’t know the location of the original. Hiroshi Yoshida was a Japanese artist active the early to mid 20th century. He is known primarily for his extraordinarily beautiful…