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20 Amazing Watercolor Masterpieces

20 Amazing Watercolor Masterpieces
This is the first of its kind post on Designzzz. The reason this subject of watercolor paintings is selected because these paintings cannot carry as much detail as other routine oil or digital paintings. That is due to the fact that watercolours are not that sophisticated with gradients and swirls. This aspect makes it the most aspiring brand of art, hence we are sharing a collection 20 watercolor paintings from all over the internet. And as usual, all the image names are properly linked back to the sources, just click them if you would like a large scale image. What do you think about these kind of posts? Eagle Harbor Mask Butterfly Effect Escape from the Sky Where Time Stands Still At First Glance Watercolor Portrait Signs of a Trawlerman Vanya Forest of Wings Qolsharif Mosque Jesus Oak Creek Sentinel I See You Princess Kaguya Brother Color Me! Hotel Rubi

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Watercolor Painting Techniques Watercolor can be a tricky medium to master. Here are helpful tips, essential techniques, and step-by-step demonstrations on using watercolors (and watercolor pencils). Art Supplies Shopping List for Watercolor PaintingWhen you first decide to pick up a brush to start watercolor painting, the choice of art supplies available can be overwhelming and confusing. Sculptures Popping Out of Paintings Oh, to have been in Tokyo in June! Shintaro Ohata just finished up a solo exhibition at the Yukari Art Contemprary in Tokyo, Japan. This Hiroshima, Japan-born artist is known for his ability to show us everyday life in a cinematic way. He captures light in his paintings, showering the world, as we know it, with carefully placed strokes of it. "Every ordinary scenery in our daily lives, such as the rising sun, the beauty of a sunset or a glittering road paved with asphalt on a rainy night, becomes something irreplaceable if we think we wouldn’t be able to see them anymore," he told Yukari gallery.

Garden "Garden" - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper - 10" x 10" Artwork © Lawrence Yang 2010 my blog | my site | purchase inquiries 081810 WIP 081810 WIP - ink, watercolor and gouache on paper Artwork © Lawrence Yang 2010 my blog | my site | purchase inquiries Watercolor Paints and Mediums Choose from the finest artist grade professional watercolors paints as well as great values for students and beginners; convenient sets perfect for travel or gifts, and mediums to enhance your watercolor painting experience — and all at Jerry's amazing everyday low prices! Watercolor paints are among the most popular and most ancient of art mediums, versions of which were used by the Egyptians, in European cave paintings like those at Lascaux, as well as in beautiful works on silk and paper in Asia. However, watercolors truly blossomed and became an art form in their own right in the 18th century, and have remained a valued art medium to this very day. Artists everywhere now use watercolor paints to depict subjects ranging from botanical illustrations to abstract art and everything in between, as watercolors are such an elegant and convenient medium and can be used both in the studio and in the field with relative ease.

Ethereal Digital Paintings Capture The Look Of Loneliness Loneliness never looked so depressingly good. Variations of glittered deformations form the basis for a grotesquely beautiful motif in the works of Japanese artist 非(xhxix). Digitally sketching, drawing, and painting everything using Photoshop alone, 非 visualizes loneliness in his subjects and decorates them with scars, layers of geometric abstractions and floral imagery. As most of his subjects are young men, the artist explains that “boys are more suitable to express loneliness as women are emotional and powerful.” Watercolor with Grace and Ease ~ Meet The Boardwalk Artist Series ~ Featured Artist ~ Mary Ellen Golden Many thanks to Mary Ellen for such a great bio! Next week another Boardwalk artist will be featured - so don't forget to stop by! Watercolor is considered a difficult medium by many people. My goal is to create a space in which it happens with grace and ease. My very first art teacher was Margaret Cooper in Rose Hill, North Carolina.

Watercolor paintings by award winning watercolor artist Wayne Roberts home | selected watercolors from period 1984-1999 | seascapes | mountains in watercolor | The Lifeboat, winner of The Paul Schwartz Memorial Award, AWS New York | a new way of painting light | paintings inspired by history, science, math | drawings | London in watercolor | seascapes 2 | watercolor responses to the australian landscape | awards | art links | contact | featured watercolors - various subjects | watercolors for sale | 'visual language' theory Flinders Street Melbourne transparent watercolor on Montval paper, 56 x 76cm, private collection Linda on Stripes transparent watercolor on Arches 640gsm cold-pressed paper, 82cm x 60cm

Annie Patterson Art and Illustration: Books I've been doodling before falling asleep...a nice way to end the day. Foxy was out today, almost white! I'm so happy to have my table space back. It's been taken up by that giant sign I was working on. I'm thinking of painting the walls, or one wall.

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