The Watercolour Log

Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Watercolour Paintings 45

Here are Augusts batch. I have again tried to mix them up with a wide variety showing the versatility of watercolour. I hope you all agree. I have included a couple of abstracts. Some of the artists are unknown to me but they just keep coming

Liam Cheng Wu

A terrific Chinese artist who paints a wide range of subjects.

Yvonne Harry

Yvonne is the leader of my group Avon Valley Artists. She is not a professional artist, although she holds a major annual exhibition at Wells Cathedral. In my (and others ) view she is equally as good, if not better, than many professionals in her major mode as a flower painter. Compare this with the one above.

Hiew Yin-Yui

Gerard Hendriks

Gerard has turned his talents to other subjects recently and his boat studies have the usual dynamic colours and sense of movement that is displayed in other subjects such as birds and animals..

Mika Toronen

Adrian Homersham

Stan Miller -enough said!

Ewa Ludwiczak

Morten Solberg Snr.

Great American artist of outdoor scenes usually the small areas of detail nvolving animals, although they aren't usually a major party of the painting.

Yuko Nagayama
The brilliant Japanese artist

Gang Liang
I love the simplicity of this,

Charles Reid

This is a typical CR painting where he combines flowers with other objects.

Gerard Hendrik

Another boat painting from Gerard - contrast this with the previous one. Slightly more subdued.

Frank Eber
Terrific artist, American I think.

Fealing Lin
Wonderful Chinese -American artist.

Gerard Hendriks

I may be slightly overindulgent here but there is a lot to be learned from Gerards work if you buy into it - and many do.

Robert Wade

The great Australian artist. This is one of his older works. I haven't seen anything recently from him and he is tending to display his back catalogue He's 88 today.

Eric Mishima
I don't know anything about this artist but this is an amazing watercolour.

Winslow Homer
The great American artist.

Robert Ferguson
A typical English landscape in the style of Seago/Wesson.

Dusan Djukaric
Another superb artist from Eastern Europe.

Pavel Pugachev

Pol Ledent

Mary Whyte
Fabulous American artist

Bev Jozwiak
Anothrr fabulous American artist.

Friday, 20 July 2018

Latest Works

Here are my latest paintings, mostly done at AVA Thursday sessions, although in some instances the drawings were completed the previous day in my home 'studio'. All are around 16" x 12" or A3 with some slightly smaller.

General George Crook - The Famous Indian Fighter

This is a modification of the painting posted on Facebook. I decided it was too plain so added the blue to his uniform.

'Breakfast'

This one of a Thrush was changed slightly as I felt I'd made the body too fat so added the dark colour Turquoise on the left over the original so reducing the body width. Possibly the blackish green Perylene Green (Schmincke) would have been better.

A Young Amerindian Woman

In this instance the guide photo, as they tend to be, was black and white. and the only discernible detail was that I've shown. The rest was dark so after looking at how a variety of artists treat portraits adopted a minimalist approach. I like it but many may not.

Bird & Blossoms.

This is actually smaller- about 12" x 9"

"Harmony'

I liked the contrast between the dark of the birds and the white flowers.

'In a Rush'

This male Grebe was travelling at speed across the water and I tried to recreate this in the painting.

Monday, 2 July 2018

Watercolour Paintings 44

Here are the latest batch of paintings for July. I have tried to mix them up a little more so hopefully there will br something for everyone. They are a mix of the famous and less well-known. I have included two from some artists.

Slawa Prischedko - What a wonderful artist as is his wife Viktoria.

Tapan Roy

Sarah Yeomans

Heidi Lots

Bijay Biswaal

Michele Clamp

Another from Slawa Prischedko

Stephie Butler

Janet Rogers (?)

Gerard Hendriks

Alvaro Castagnet

Yuko Nagayama

Anne Blockley.

Ann, the daughter of the late John Blockley, has written several books and also produced videos so if you are attracted to her paintings you can follow this up.

Stephie Butler - What a delicate touch!

Aine Devine

This Scottish artist produces amazing work.

Shirley Trevena

Another from Shirley Trevena

Shirley, like Anne Blockley, a top British artist has written at least two books and also has videos so you can follow this up if you are interested. Fabulous work although very difficult to emulate.