Showing posts with label Watercolor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Watercolor. Show all posts

Sunday, November 20

One motif and two media: The Art of Sarah Wimperis

I have been following Sarah's work for a long time and always felt like sharing one of her works.
She just finished the oil version, right picture, of a friend's room in Edinburgh.
The same motif is at the left done with watercolor.
These is what she says at her blog The Red Shoes:
About the oil, left picture:
"Another painting of my dear friends room. I enjoy working in a different media*(sic) with the same subject and it certainly focuses the decisions that you have to make throughout a painting. I love the result, its a sumptuous room and the oils bring a real richness to the colours."
About the watercolor version, right picture:
"I am posting this up now for several reasons, firstly, I think it is finished. I have been working on it over the past couple of weeks and I find that putting things up on my blog helps me to see if there are any bits I want to change or carry on with. Its a bit like viewing your painting in a mirror, it helps to see it clearly." " This work here is big, and some of his are big, it is a difficult medium to take large and he is a master."
You can now look at the two versions and have an idea of what each technique has of differences. This kind of paintings, there are many of them at the web even selling their work for low prices, is the academic version with a touch of impressionism usually inspired by Matisse but never Cezanne and they are soulless. Few artists are capable of mastering this technique imprinting a mark of their own in the canvas just like in the academic art.

Thursday, November 10

An American in Paris2 by Ken Foster

Again? Yes. Ken Foster strikes again. I never thought that a honeymoon, this first post about Ken in Paris explains, could be so inspiring for an artist.
The more I stare the more I feel Paris's cafès, the Louvre that I visited so many times and Paris's atmosphere .
The bridge le Pont Neuf - the New Bridge - I had at my list of must-see in this lifetime since I read "Hopscotch" by Julio Cortázar.
How I wish I knew how to do sketches. Click at the images to enlarge.

Monday, October 31

An American in Paris by Ken Foster

Another of Ken Foster's great watercolors. This time... in Paris where he spent his honeymoon.
When I was in Paris I lived close to Notre Dame and from my window I could see part of Ile de Saint Louis where the cathedral is. I could also go walking to the Beaubourg.
Ok, the post is about an American and not a Brazilian in Paris.
Ken went with his wife to the cathedral and after that they found
this cafè "Cafè Lutetia".
He took the picture, even in a honeymoon artists don't stop creating, I know because I was married to one. lol
I admire that and this was one of the features that fascinated me. Wow. It is not about me...
Go to Ken's site and take a look at what he wrote about this peice and browse his blog to be enchanted by his work.

Thursday, July 7

Delacroix's Women of Algier















"The Women of Algiers in their apartment", done in 1834, is another of the most 
famous of Delacroix's painting.
The right photography (Reuters) depicts the painting in an exhibition and a woman looking 
at the version Picasso did.
Picasso did versions, reinterpretations of 
other artists like Velazquez's Las Meninas, and works of Monet and El Greco. I will publish them.

Friday, July 1

Erin McGuire's adventures in blue

Last May I did a post about Erin Mcguire's work at the moment I found her blog and was spelled by her art. I went back and was enchanted again and as it's always hard to chose two in a good collection I decided for these because I love blue. At least there is a criterion not very orthodox but a criterion. But notice that the "action" is not in blue. The cat and the boy with a book in his hand as a shadow and the light that comes from inside is amazing.

Saturday, May 14

Erin McGuire's adventures in the graphic design world

















I was lucky today. I clicked at "next blog" maybe for the forth time in my internet life and came across with Erin McGuire site an amazing graphic designer that do a lot of different works without losing something only she has.
I'm still looking and enchanted by her sketches, books she likes and make covers for them... her universe that is very creative and amazing. I've chosen these pictures but I would really like to have some more. Hope you like them.
It is a good idea to check her blog this Saturday. Have a great weekend!

Friday, April 15

Van Gogh's The night cafe: watercolor and oil versions

Van Gogh used to repeat his paintings with some differences but here we have the Night Cafe painted with oil, right, and a watercolor, left. You can see how it the two mediums a different result is achieved. The watercolor seems more quiet while in the oil version the thickness of the paintbrushes and the brightness of the yellow makes the atmosphere more electric.
These works were done out of memory and imagination and these are Vincent's words about the oil version:
"I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. The room is blood red and dark yellow with a green billiard table in the middle; there are four lemon-yellow lamps with a glow of orange and green. Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most alien reds and greens, in the figures of little sleeping hooligans, in the empty dreary room, in violet and blue. The blood-red and the yellow-green of the billiard table, for instance, contrast with the soft tender Louis XV green of the counter, on which there is a rose nosegay. The white clothes of the landlord, watchful in a corner of that furnace, turn lemon-yellow, or pale luminous green."
Vincent Van Gogh
Tomorrow I will be back on this painting but in a different way.

Wednesday, September 23

Mirabelle - The female body in watercolours

"My subject of preference... the human body and its language mainly "The" woman, as a Venus swelling from the noisy pigments, showing her ardent plastik." "The background of my watercolours, implement the whim of the fusion of pigments and water, such like a mysterious wave that mix and forward the model." Mirabelle 'Art I went to two art exhibitions at Second Life this week. I've just saw Marielou DeCuir's watercolours and took these pictures: me plunged into her works and her. It was funny because for the first time I have used a tatoo in my avatar and wore more revealing clothes. There I'm in front of "Mirabelle" one of the works that she has used at her site where you can see some of the watercolours of this beautiful woman who lives in Monaco. I'm amazed by the fact that yesterday's exhibition also approached the female body and I'm planning to write about it tomorrow. For the moment enjoy Mirabelle's work. It's not easy to work the human body in watercolour. "Originally, each of my watercolour starts with an encounter, a movement, a soft curve. Then follows a quick preparative drawing. My purpose is not to draw, but to jump in my imaginary, play with the grammage of the paper, the pigments and the magic of water."

Sunday, April 19

Van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec

Impressionists used to portrait their friends and make a reference to their friend's work. Toulouse Lautrec, Portrait of Van Gogh, 1887 (pastel and watercolor)
Van Gogh, Glass of Absinthe and a Bottle , 1884. You've just seen this glass and bottle someplace else.