AWS 143rd exhibition - Joyce Hicks- This Way to the Vineyard
American Watercolor Society
143rd Annual International Exhibition
April 6, 2010 – May 2, 2010
Salmagundi Club – New York
47 Fifth Ave. at 12th Street
The American Watercolor Society is a nonprofit membership organization that began in 1866 to promote the art of watercolor painting in America.Each year the Society holds a juried exhibition of watercolors from artists throughout the world.
Pear to pear watercolor painting - 7 x 10 inches
Did a little bit of watercolor on the watercolor study trying to use watercolor straight from the tube and applying it with a cotton swab. This is my way of study of pointellism in watercolor painting. Overall it was not a difficult process but much time consuming. The limit was the variety of watercolor paints I have at hand. If anyone were to try pointellism, they should have a good selection of watercolor paint.
Gerhard Mantz - "Allgemeine Obereinstimmung", 2009 - Ink on canvas
The gallery [DAM]Berlin
Tucholskystr. 37
10117 Berlin
Germany
Exhibition: 27. March – 26. May 2010
Preview: Friday, 26. March, 7-9 pm
The artist will be present at the opening.
A catalogue with an introductory text of Domenico Quaranta will be released for the exhibition.
Gallery [DAM]Berlin presents a solo exhibition of Gerhard Mantz with new virtual landscapes in Black and White.
In the series, the viewer enters the Earth after a major event. Whether it has been an explosion, that has covered the forests under a perfect thin layer of ashes, or a complete freeze of nature due to cold and frost, is not defined. The places that Gerhard Mantz shows in his virtual landscapes are not real places but landscapes of the soul. The strength of the pieces lies in their alienation and their ambivalence. Due to their brightness, they seem fragile and magic. Since the series is only executed in black and white, the light contributes an important part to the composition. It can be promising but equally be the blinding light of an explosion, a harbinger of a desaster………………….. Read more from Art Knodledge News.
Peter Lau - Pear to pear - Watercclor on cold press watercolor paper 7 x 10 inches
Last night I tried my first watercolor pointellism. It is done on a 7 x 10 inches cold press watercolor paper. The color was painted on one dot at a time using the cotton swab. I think the dried watercolor paint is best for this technique but I shall experiment further. The dry watercolor paint in my palette is first sprayed with mist of water from a amall water bottle that creates fine mist. Then a cotton swab is wet with clean watercor and paint is transfer onto the swab by touching the paint. Pure pigment is being transferred to the paper one dot at a time keeping in mind the intensity and value of each dot of watercolor paint. I think with this techinque of not mixing paints, a variety of watercolor paint is needed in different shades and color should be on hand for the application.
Pavel Tchelitchew - "Head of Spring" gouache and watercolor on paper 19 x 25 1/8 inches
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America
24 West 57 Street, New York, NY
March 13 – May 29, 2010
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, the gallery’s first exhibition in over a decade dedicated to the influence of surrealism on American figural and abstract art. Spanning two decades from 1931 to 1952, the exhibition features painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage by thirty-two artists………more from Art Knowledge News
Playful Landscape - 3 x 6.5 inches
Did a small whimsical landscape last night on a 3 x6.5 inches of cold press watercolor paper. I called it Playful Landscape because the watercolor I used is mostly right out of the tube and all I did is dilute it with water to lower it’s intensity. It is a quick watercolor landscape study and I like the way it turns out which is simple and quick. After all the watercolor layers are dry, I outline it with a permanent marker and make sure that it is free and loose to match the mood of the painting. This is more a quick sketch than a watercolor painting which many people try to do on location.
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3 Pears Watercolor final revision
3 Pears Watercolor
I have made a final revision on the 3 pears watercolor painting I did a while ago. The before and after picture is shown above. I have put on layers and layers of watercolor paint onto the painting while masking out the background or the pear. As done in the many other watercolor painting before, I have been using the watercolor spattering technique for this painting as well. This creates a effect I cannot get from watercolor painting using a brush and it is quite interesting with tiny little dots of paint similar to air brush. I found that I need to be not afraid of failure in making adjustment to my finished paintings. I need to treat it as a learning exercise in watercolor painting and even though if might turn out worse than before and yet I need to do it with faith and try to learn something in the process.
I have also uploaded two pictures of me in the Artist Statement page of this web site. One is taken in my studio in front of my table. It is my quite place for doing my watercolor. Another photo is taken with me standing beside my pebble painting.
The watercolor painting Toward the Sunrise has been changed in the final stage and I think it is better as a result. The bottom green has been darken together with the value of the tree on the right side. Layers of Winsor and Newton Windsor Green and Ultramarine Blue was added. That resulted in a darker value for the foreground in the landscape which I think is more appropiate for the scene. The sky seems brighter and the purple and brown in other areas has more brilliance in contrast with the dark foreground.
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