Innholdsfortegnelse for Fall 2021 i Watercolor Artist

“ The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. ” —LEONARD DA VINCI The lengthy production cycle of a magazine being what it is, the specific content plans for an issue typically begin taking shape about six months ahead of the publication date. That means it was some time last February that I began to contemplate articles for this Fall issue, and it seems rather clear—given the various travel-themed articles assembled here—that I was feeling a bit restless at the time. I was eager, after a long winter, to get out of the house, and—encouraged by the rollout of COVID vaccines—I even allowed myself to start dreaming about travel again. It was in this frame of mind, then, that I encountered Eudes Correia’s Lisbon-inspired paintings of busy locals and…

SURFACE Saunders watercolor paper—usually a hand-torn quarter (11x17) of a full sheet WATERCOLORS • Winsor & Newton • Daniel Smith BRUSHES • Lebenzon • Raphael • Rosemary & Co • Escoda Sometimes Wilmot uses just one brush to make a painting—a large mop brush made by Lebenzon. “It’s made with a combination of synthetic and goat hair,” he says. “It keeps a good point, so you can use it to make small delicate marks or to apply broad areas of paint.” In other paintings Wilmot limits himself to three brushes: his large mop, a small inexpensive synthetic brush for details and a squirrel mop. “The squirrel mop is gentle,” he says. “You can create some lovely marks with it. I always use it to paint waves because it creates that…

Seattle-based artist Stephanie Bower (drawingperspectives.com) is an architectural illustrator who combines her background as an architect, teacher and artist to offer instruction in drawing and painting in workshops, both  locally and internationally. Bower is a blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers and a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She’s also the author of several books, including The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective and The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips. Uma Kelkar (umakelkar.com), of San Jose, Calif., is both an artist and an engineer—two professions in which she finds plenty of crossover synergy. She’s the primary author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing With a Tablet (Quarry Books,  2020), and a contributing author to many other urban-sketching titles. The award-winning artist, who works in watercolor, gouache, oil, ink, charcoal…

Sketching provides an easy entry point for making art. I’m a busy entrepreneur, engineer, community builder, painter and parent. Without this tool, I might paint once in two weeks, which translates to 13 days of not engaging in my craft. That much downtime erodes muscle memory and makes it harder to re-engage in my art where I left off. A sketchbook tides me over between more extensive painting sessions—and provides a space for practice and play. I’ve found it extremely useful to have at hand a “catalog” of my experiments and studies to inform my future practice. Among the many benefits of a sketchbook practice are three ways of using them that I find particularly valuable: SMART SYSTEM A smart system is one which has the shortest feedback loop. In…

Have you ever visited some place and known right away that a single sketch wouldn’t be enough to do it justice? Whenever one image isn’t enough to tell the full story of a subject, I like to create a “sketch collage.” Not to be confused with traditional collage techniques that involve an assortment of papers assembled and affixed to a page, a sketch collage uses multiple sketches on a page to tell a bigger story. Sometimes I complete a page in a single sitting. Other times, I add images to the same collage over the course of a trip. Regardless of the approach I take, I’ve found this to be an effective way to capture the spirit and character of a place more fully. MAKING ARRANGEMENTS The primary challenge for…

Listed in the order of reference in the article: Krishna—a major deity of Hinduism who’s believed to be the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu lila—playful activity of God Vaishnava—the largest Hindu denomination, which believes Vishnu is the supreme lord Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám—the title that Edward Fitzgerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of selected quatrains attributed to 10th-century poet Omar Khayyam, dubbed “the Astronomer-Poet of Persia” kokoromochi—the Japanese aesthetic ideal of associating feeling and suggestion Arabian Nights—also referred to as One Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (800–1258 A.D.) Krishnamangal and Kavikankan Chandi— texts written by the poet Dvija Madhab in the 16th century. Both works are important examples of…

WORKSHOPS Art in the Mountains July 17–20, 2021, ZOOM 9am-4pm PT Don Andrews “Virtual Landscape Color and Composition” Watercolor. Beginning to Advanced students. Cost $625 July 27–31, 2021, ZOOM 10am-5pm PT Amanda Hawkins “Abstract Landscape Painting”, acrylic Beginning to Advanced students. Cost $ 495 August 3–4 and 5–6, 2021, ZOOM 9am to 1pm PT Michael Reardon, “Watercolor Techniques” Intermediate to Advanced Painters Cost $255 each September 14–18, 2021, Saco, Maine Mary Whyte “Discover Old Maine with Mary Whyte” Beginning to Advanced Painters Cost is $2400 for painters and $1800 for non-painters. Price includes meals and lodging. September 20–22, 2021, Rockland, Maine Alvaro Castagnet “The Pillars of Watercolor!”, plein air Intermediate to Advanced Outdoor Painters. Cost $655 October 5–25, 2021, WhatsApp Online David Taylor, “Staying Afloat in Watercolor” Intermediate to Advanced…

Rukiye Garip often depicts the tranquility of nature in her serene paintings of water, but her watercolor painting, Fishermen, was a slight deviation in order to portray the chaotic push and pull of life and death in the natural world. “All living organisms and organic matter in nature are parts of a whole,” says the artist, who lives in Balikesir, Turkey. “Each contributes to a natural order that feeds one another, encourages growth and enables existence.” Garip’s painting took First Place in the Splash 22 water-media competition and is featured in the Summer 2021 publication, The Best of Watercolor, a special competition publication sponsored by Artists Magazine. The scene that inspired her painting took place at a fish auction in Golyazi on a small island in Lake Uluabat. Garip first…

Wilmot’s growing career as a painter is something of a surprise to him. “I’ve always painted, and I’ve always painted in watercolor,” he says, “but I studied other things in college, and my career has been in the computer field. I’ve always seen my painting as a kind of relaxation as it’s so different from my daytime work.” About a decade ago the artist began giving a few closed online tutorials. “I recorded the sessions and decided to put them up on YouTube,” he says. “I had no intention that anything would happen with them. Over the years I saw these things called subscriptions going up and comments…

Architect, author and artist James F. Williamson earned two Master of Architecture degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under Louis Kahn. After graduation he worked for the Philadelphia architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and eventually established his own firm in Memphis, Tenn., where he garnered more than 30 design awards over 30 years. In 2005, the American Institute of Architects elected him to its College of Fellows. From 2008 to 2020, Williamson taught as a professor of Architecture at the University of Memphis, taking a sabbatical in 2019 to travel and paint in Umbria, Italy. Williamson has written numerous articles on architecture as well as the book Kahn at Penn: Transformative Teacher of Architecture (Routledge, 2015).…

PALETTE I use a Heritage folding palette with 18 wells. I add and subtract paint colors from time to time, but primarily use: • Daniel Smith: green gold, Hansa yellow medium, quinacridone gold, permanent yellow deep, anthraquinoid scarlet, permanent alizarin crimson, quinacridone rose, imperial purple, French ultramarine, cobalt teal blue, manganese blue hue, phthalo green (blue shade), quinacridone burnt orange and lunar black • Winsor & Newton: raw sienna and burnt sienna • Holbein: cobalt blue and marine blue • I keep lavender and buff titanium (which are opaque) and a white gouache on the side or in the tube BRUSHES • Rounds: Nos. 6 to 14 • Flats: Da Vinci, 5080 series, size 20mm SKETCHBOOK My favorite sketchbooks include: • a 10x11-inch version that I make by hand using…

As a Montreal artist, I’m used to the way our often bitterly cold winters can isolate me for days, and I have plenty of sketches and paintings of snowy views from my windows to prove it. But this past year was a little different—okay, very different. Given pandemic-related lockdowns, closures and personal safety measures, we all probably painted more at home than we normally would. Like many others, I began thinking about the very idea of a window and its metaphors as both a window of opportunity and an eye on the world. Both the object and the metaphors definitely figured more in my work than they had in previous winters; I relied on windows for subjects, visual sustenance and visual relief. Here are some of the many ways windows…

Yuki Hall (yukihallfineart.com) created this sketch at a lakeside resort in northern Wisconsin using a pen-and-wash technique. “Pen and wash is, by far, my favorite method for sketching,” she says. “Because lines become major parts of the painting, there’s very little work left to do with brushes, reducing the risk of overworking.” When doing the pen work, Hall tries to avoid drawing with rigid lines, which lacks character. “I believe the beauty of pen and wash is most evident when executed with expressive lines that reveal personality,” she says.…

/ ON THE SHELVES / En Plein Air: Light and Color [$22] Perfect for beginners to either watercolor or the plein air experience, Iain Stewart’s En Plein Air: Light and Color (Quarto, 2021) covers a lot of ground: the basics of painting outdoors, tools and materials, choosing a subject, building a composition, painting techniques and more. Beyond these essentials, you’ll learn how to capture the mood and atmosphere of a landscape or busy cityscape, and master color to convey weather, time of day and much more. Ensure that your many adventures with paintbrush and paper are peaceful and full of joy with Stewart’s guiding hand. Tracey Emin [$19.99] In this beautifully illustrated look at provocative English multimedia artist Tracey Emin, editor Jonathan Jones uncovers previously unpublished watercolors. Jones celebrates the…

Tim Wilmot (timwilmot.com), born in Bristol, in southwest England, was an avid painter in school and has continued painting in watercolor throughout his life. He’s largely self-taught, inspired by watercolorists ranging from John Sell Cotman and J.M.W. Turner to modern figures like John Pike, John Yardley and Joseph Zbukvic. Wilmot’s daytime career is in the IT field, but in recent years he has developed a growing reputation as an artist and as an art instructor who gives online tutorials as well as in-person workshops. He has also led several painting groups on European trips. Wilmot continues to make his home in Bristol.…

To keep things light and portable, I use a lapboard made of corrugated plastic (available at craft stores). I cut a hole in it to hold a plastic medicine bottle for water, and clip my sketchbook and palette to this board. PALETTE I use the small Winsor & Newton Sketchers Pocket Box but replace the paints with artist-grade Winsor & Newton (French ultramarine, burnt sienna and yellow ochre) and Daniel Smith’s quinacridone burnt orange (my secret weapon for glowing shade). BRUSHES The Escoda travel brushes are my favorite. I love the Perla No. 12 and the Kolinsky sable Reserva size 10. SKETCHBOOK I enjoy working on Winsor & Newton 140-lb., cold-pressed watercolor paper cut to 8x16. I also love Pentalic’s Aqua Journal sketchbooks. MISCELLANEOUS I also carry a .5mm mechanical…

I love to work in ink and wash, using these basic supplies: PENS In a small pouch with a neck strap, I carry: • fine-line pen with permanent ink, such as a Micron • Sailer Fude de Mannen nib fountain pen filled with waterproof ink for a wide range of expression in line • gray brush pen for shade and shadow • white gel pen PALETTE In a shoulder bag, I carry a metal travel palette with 16 watercolors by Daniel Smith and Winsor & Newton: Prussian blue, cobalt teal blue, alizarin crimson, Naples yellow, ultramarine blue, viridian, spring green, azo yellow, cobalt blue, deep sap green, Mayan orange, cadmium yellow deep, neutral tint, burnt umber, burnt sienna light and carbazole violet BRUSHES A set of six Escoda travel brushes…

To understand the story of art in modern India, you must first consider the impact of the country’s social and political past. Going back to the 18th century, when the British East India Company had political dominion over India, a newly industrialized culture began to replace local religion, art and social practices. The situation led to tensions between more orthodox Indians, who clung fast to anything traditional, and modern-leaning Indians, who wanted to give way to all things British. At the same time, the decline of the royal courts in Northern India had led to an exodus of traders, artists and educators, who began moving eastward, to Calcutta, which was already a well-established port of commerce. In this way, that city had become a melting pot of cultures—a place where…