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dale atkinson evocative figural style with a fine sense of color and symbolic realism |
| susan beauchemin remarkable small format paintings built up with successive layers of resist over variegated washes |
| james boissett poet in a traditional voice of landscape and nocturnal light |
| molly brose a realist, a yupo texturist, and a seeker for the light inside the smallest things |
| carol carter dramatic composition and color with a fabulous watercolor technique |
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jenny davis flawless watercolor images of glowing youthful women |
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david dewey one of the best american watercolor teachers going today |
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walton ford sardonic wildlife fabulist (via audubon and la fontaine) in exuberant large format watercolors |
| laurie frick watercolors and collages with plenty of color, light, and incident |
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tim gardner a miniature photorealist in the extreme ... get yourself a web domain, dude |
| april gornik images of clouds, trees and water in shadowy silhouette prints and drawings |
| guan weixing prolific watercolorist with a special talent for portraiture |
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ottorino de lucchi a warm, precise sense of light and color displayed in serene drybrush portraits and still lifes |
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william moore hardworking, fluent Chicago painter with focus on Bogota and menacing surrealism |
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marlies najaka relaxed and lyrical use of botanical motifs, and a master of watercolor greens |
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ted nuttall relaxed yet lapidary style with a superb eye for lively color and texture |
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ong kim seng delightful tourist landscapes that strike a classical yet lyric balance between painting and drawing |
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john raynes master portraitist with a relaxed yet analytical watercolor style |
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charles reid watercolor as only charles reid can do it — accidental, quirky, full of color |
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ilana richardson masterful compositional instinct, beautiful use of color and pigment textures |
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john salminen dry eyed poet of the urban environment, this guy can paint anything he wants |
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glen scouller splendidly balanced fusion of color, space, brush and line drawing |
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nicholas simmons an adventurous craftsman in his unique style of multilevel images rendered in tesselated color |
| steven skinner gritty but splendid architectural paintings and miniature "objects of obsession"; includes a brief watercolor tutorial |
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shirley trevena exuberant color, energetic textures and assertively "designed" images |
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lucy willis an incomparable blending of calligraphic brushwork and realist light |
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hiroshi yoshida austere and balanced drawing, but the charm is the masterful use of color to fuse the design and breathe the light |
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joseph zbukvic a master of the traditional splash and dash watercolor technique in landscape and urban settings, and a great teacher |
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| HANDPRINT a painting journal separate from this site, blogs are a great painting discipline. i discovered a whole community of artists with similar sites — and decided to join them |
| Brush-Paper-Water a biweekly "celebration of watercolor" that showcases the works of watercolor artists, curated by chris beck. |
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materials & techniques |
| golden paints well organized and reliable information on pigments, paints and painting techniques |
| kremer pigments world's largest source of historical and modern pigments, paintmaking & conservation supplies, pan watercolors and art instruction |
| kama pigments montréal retailer of pigments and paintmaking supplies |
| paintmaking.com a site by tony johansen devoted specifically to handmade paints in gum, oil, egg or acrylic dispersions |
| photoshop tips for artists as the title says ... tips and insights on using photoshop to prepare digital images for painting |
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| galleries |
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nancy hoffman has in her basement a good collection of watercolors by joseph raffael, carolyn brady and others |
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The Botanical Gallery a nice collection of botanical art by talented botanical artists |
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graton gallery a local artists' gallery with a nice collection of regional landscapes |
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museums |
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new york museum of modern art generally does not display watercolors but has a large collection of modern works on paper; inquire with the curator about future exhibitions and private viewings |
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san francisco museum of modern art a good representation of modern art exhibitions but spotty for works on paper |
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new york metropolitan museum of art an important collection of watercolor paintings by homer, sargent, marin and early modernists |
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whitney museum then and now great collection, but a feeble taste for works on paper |
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los angeles museum of contemporary art generally shows higher interest in works on paper, including the graphical (cartoon) legacy |
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community |
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lines and colors a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts |
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national watercolor society the largest USA national society, originally the california (yeah!) water color society |
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american watercolor society the second largest and oldest national organization |
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transparent watercolor society of america a good collection |
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brooklyn watercolor society a historically important and exclusive society |
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florida watercolor society the largest state watercolor society in the USA |
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illinois watercolor society home base for chicago area painters |
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ohio watercolor society ohio has a fine tradition of watercolor painting centered in cinncinnati |
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watercolor society of oregon great regional society for the northwest |
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royal watercolour society the oldest watercolor society in the world, hosted at the bankside gallery (london) web site |
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royal scottish society of painters in watercolour the scots have a long and distinguished tradition of watercolor painting |
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