Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Matthew Bird
Matthew Bird is a watercolor painter based in the Baltimore area whose primary subjects are still life, portraits and figures. When I first glanced at the page of still life images on his website, I thought he was painting in a deliberattely high-chroma manner. Once I started to look through, I realized he was actually…
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Matty Burnham
Matty Burnham is an English artist and illustrator working in ink and watercolor. His subjects are usually architectural, often of modest little cottages and houses. He captures these with varied ink lines drawn with a fude fountain pen, which allows artists to vary the width and character of their line by turning the pen at…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent watercolor from Villa di Marlia
Villa di Marlia, Lucca – A Fountain, John SInger Sargen, watercolor and gouache, 16 x 21 in. (40 x 53 cm). Link is to a larger image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I had the pleasure of seeing this beautiful Sargent watercolor, along with several…
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Dugald Stewart Walker
Dugald Stewart Walker was one of the less well known American illustrators active in the early 20th century, basically in the latter part of the “Golden Age” of illustraion. His style was in keeping with other great illustrators of the time, notably, I think, those from Europe and the UK, like Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Charles Ethan Porter watercolor still life
Still Life with Corn, Charles Ethan Porter; watercolor on paper, 11 x 17 in, (27 x 43 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Though watercolor and gouahe are common in botanical art, they are infrequently usesd for still life paintings. There’s something I particularly like about those that I’m familiar with,…
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Arthur Rackham illustration from The Night Before Christmas
The great “Golden Age” British illustrator Arthur Rackham created illustrations for an edition of Clement C. Moore’s beloved poem, The Night Before Christmas in 1915. There is a version of the edition on Wikisource. The illustrations range from brief ink sketches to more fully realized ink and watercolor paintings. In this one, we see The…