Nancy Chan’s medium of choice is sumi ink, and with it she has created a fantastic collection of monochromatic portraits. Don’t take my word for it though, check out the work for yourself.
Archive for the ‘Watercolour’ Category
Nancy Chan
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Diana Sudyka
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I am a big fan of Diana Sudyka’s wildlife watercolours. Of course, she also has some fantastic etchings to see, and great illustration work as well. Let’s just say there is no shortage of treats for your eyes over on her site.
Tristram Lansdowne
Friday, September 19th, 2008
I’ve always been drawn to urban areas as subject matter, so it’s no surprise that Tristram Lansdowne’s watercolours are knocking me on my butt. His paintings focus on the decaying remnants of urban landscapes long ignored, and the results are amazing.
Laura Culic
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
You can find Laura Culic’s amazing landscapes at booth ORANGE 413 this year at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Of course, you can see them before that on her site.
Jacob Magraw
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Jacob Magraw seems to be incorporating vegetation, anatomy and landscape to create his works. These various elements come together in a very organic way, resulting in new worlds filled with subtle details that are a lot of fun to explore. His site doesn’t have too much work on it at the moment, but more of his paintings can be found here.
Tom Neely
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Tom Neely’s watercolours are reminiscent of old watercolour stills from Disney cartoons, back before computers took over the animation. Only Neely’s themes are a bit darker, and occasionally a bit more graphic, nudity wise that is.
Speaking of graphic (how’s that for a segue!) Neely happens to have a graphic novel out (available on his site.) I know, I know, this is “Paint”Blog, not “GraphicNovel”Blog, but hey, I couldn’t resist. I bought a copy last year at the Toronto Comics Art Festival, and it is fantastic!
Marci Washington
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
There is no shortage of great art being created in the world today.
Exhibit A: Marci Washington.
Her series of dark and moody portraits re-create an elizabethan world that seems to have been infected with a touch of vampirism. Highly enjoyable.
Alice Tippit
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
I have always found the use of text in painting to be a tricky thing. My own experiments have most often resulted in abject failure, but every once in a while I come across an artist who succeeds at it, and it makes me want to try again. Alice Tippit manages to walk that fine line, the one that differentiates between humour and gag, between re-interpretation and gimmick, between dialogue and preaching. It’s not an easy line to walk.
Bettina Sellman
Monday, March 17th, 2008
How do you take classic renaissance portraiture and give it an amazing contemporary feel, all while using a difficult medium at its fullest potential? You don’t. But Bettina Sellman does.
Jen Corace
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Remember those fairy tales you read as a kid? The ones that seemed simple enough on the surface, but when you looked deeper you realized there was a subtle darkness and melancholy to them? And then you realized it was the darkness and melancholy that made you like them that much more? That’s how I feel about Jen Corace’s work.
