Watercolor / Watercolour Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Eduardo Diaz - Statement My name is Eduardo DIaz and Iim a Mexican artist residing in the Bay Area since 2001. In my work I express different elements of Mexican culture, while emphasizing its Native American heritage. I incorporate native themes and images, both extant and prehispanic, into my works and combine them with personal feelings, experiences or fears. Although cultural elements are the essence of my art, through them I also like to express political and social opinions. As a Mexican, I feel in touch with the problems at the Mexican-American border, as well as with the issues facing Mexican immigrants. I also like to express the tension between the indigenous and the industrialized worlds, and to analyze the different elements that make up Mexican identity, especially when confronted with life in a different country. My favorite medium is oil painting. I use vivid and deep colors, with which I reflect the light of the Mexican sun. Some of my compositions are figurative, and oscillate between realistic scenes and more elaborated images, with affinity to surrealism. My most recent productions are less figurative and combine the same vivid colors into expressive abstract constructions. Biography My name is Eduardo D...

Bob Cauley - For centuries masters of art have influenced pupils of study to expand upon style and skill. I have been most influenced by Jackson Pollock and the Impressionists. I mostly work in oils, usually mixing the paint on the canvas, not on the pallet. My abstracts give me a sense of freedon.. They are similar to Pollock's work with my own little twist, free-flowing paint and style. When I create a landscape, it gives me a place to escape from reality. I have had an interest in art since my childhood years. But I did not attempt to create my own works of art until the age of 38. My inspirations come from my dreams and my vivd imagination. I much enjoy creating my art pieces. When I am finished with a piece, a great sense of satisfaction follows. This is the very same feeling that comes over me when I see others enjoying and appreciating my art....

Carol Griffith - My oil paintings are meditations triggered by places or situations in my memory, arrived at through a sort of daydreaming state of mind. I attempt to evoke that mood in the handling of the formal elements of the painting, especially the color and the perspectival point of view. I wish to create both a believable place and the sense of something more significant behind it. The viewer, in contact with the painting and their own memories, may then project into the space and experience the significance that I sensed. This approach has led me to an interest in souvenirs. I see them as an attempt to capture a special place or experience in concrete or symbolic form. By doing paintings of my own remembered places and experiences, I have been following a parallel path. I like the comparison with one purpose of art. I use borders in some of the paintings to function simultaneously as framing devices and as an arena in which to create a dialogue with the internal painting. The borders also extend the meaning of the internal subject. Memories often consist of simultaneous kaleidoscopic vignettes that, in combination, embody the whole, original experience. Each vignette is also ...

Bernhard Oberdieck - Here I introduce you to my work as illustrator. I specialize in children's book illustrations and have been published by German as well as foreign publishers. The best known of my works were created in collaboration with Michael Ende. I also draw for advertising projects and packaging illustrations, and many of the children's book illustrations are used in the vast merchandising field. My illustrations can be seen worldwide in exhibits and are sought by many collectors. I would be pleased to know if my homepage is to your liking. If you would like to purchase an original, please send me an e-mail or simply give me a call. In the United States I am represented by Carol Bancroft & Friends....

Theekshana Kumara - In this modern age, there is no differentiation of art into sculpture, graphic art etc. All these belong to visual art. In the creation of a visual art, there is no classification into sculpture of clay or some other solid substance, or attribution of the canvas and oil paint for art. A visual art can be created with any substance or colour encountered in our daily life. Neither is an art gallery necessary for the display of a visual art. Any place appropriate for the creation can be used for the purpose. Age of communication began in 2000. Because of the computer, visual art began to progress rapidly. Today it has advanced up to digital pictures. Art was born to achieve some specific objective. Art came to be expressed through audio and visual media. Therefore, human art has not been divided into canvas, brush and oil paint. A visual art can be built by utilising of any material or colour encountered in daily life. An art gallery is not required to display a visual art. Any appropriate place can be used for the purpose. ...

Alan Falk - In the tradition of great figurative painting, my work reflects a synthesis of craftsmanship, conscious and subconscious relationships, and emotional and social content. It is an ongoing quest to define the sublime and the ineffable and a deep heartfelt yearning for harmony. I am energized by the belief that here, at the dawning of the 21st century, the process of creating art through traditional media is very much alive and continues to evolve and remains as relevant as it ever was. The primary influences on my current work are diverse Judaic sources including biblical passages, prophetic writings, rabbinical teachings and contemporary Judaic philosophy that shape my conscience. These timeless commentaries, informed by the core moral and universal humanistic values of Jewish tradition and ethos, are an integral part of the shaping of our western civilization, as they encompass a fundamental desire for personal spiritual and global peace, equality and social justice. The jumping off points for my paintings are these universal metaphors and messages of good and evil, questions and commentaries on integrity and moral/ethical choice, parables on mortality and the quest for spiritual connection. Through careful crafting of thematic coloring, expressive line, I attempt to develop a new ...

Marc De Groote - One of the top 25 Canadian artist invited to compete in the Wildlife Habitat Canada Conservation Stamp Competition. Wildlife artist extraordinaire, come and experience wildlife art as you rarely will see today, Marc's extreme detailed artworks will amaze you. His ability to capture nature at its finest will allow you the experience of being at one with nature. I consider myself a realist artist, greatly influenced by the beauty of nature. The extreme detail created in the natural world is beyond comprehension. My primary objective is to capture that detail with the intent for viewers to contemplate these familiar visions from a different vantage point of being there with nature. To be able to get close to wildife is an near impossible task my art allows the viewer to experience the feeling of being real close. ...

Thomai Kontou - Thomai Kontou CURRICULUM VITAE Thomai Kontou learned sketching from 1971 to 1978 in Athens, in the Vrassida Vlahopoulos and Theodoros Drossos ateliers. She was taught painting by Yannis Tsarouhis, while she learned the Fresco Technique by Dimitris Kostopoulos. She is continuously present in the Artistic area since 1973 with 22 individual exhibitions and has taken part in 260 group shows in Greece and abroad. She participated in 11 BIENNALES: 1996 in Belgrade, 1998 in Mexico, 1999 and 2001 in Pisa aEUR" Italy and in 2002 and 2004 in Poland, 2005 in Nikcic - Serbia and Ankara aEUR" Turkey. 2006 in Victoria aEUR" Canada, and in the International Spanish Flu Mail Art Biennial in Hungary. 2007 in aEURoe2 Medial Art BiennialaEUR? in London, England. 2007 it is one from the two Greek attendances, that took part in the program "Scenes and Sounds of My City" that was co-organised by the central UNESCO in Paris and the Sharjah Biennial 8, the United Arab Emirates. She was selected by the Internal Committee it takes part in Florence Biennale 2007 Her works are influenced by the Aegean Sea, its stones and shells, by the Universal flows and the AngelsaEURtm Plasmas. Works of her can be found in...

Pim Van Der Wel - Pim van der Wel (1950) combines the art of making watercolours with his work as a business economist. After lessons in all the basic drawing techniques by two Dutch painters in the periods 1980/1987 and 1994/1996 he specialised himself in watercolours. Watercolour offers hardly any limitations, so he can show what he likes and that is light and shadow in dents, creases and gloss etc. His objects are sports (mainly football), cans, torsos, animals (cows, sheep, dogs and chicken). In the last 10 years his work has been shown at (group-)exhibitions in the Netherlands. Some galleries have his works permanently in stock. ...

Pim Van Der Wel - Costanza Zappa - Costanza Zappa (www.costanza.net). Farmacista, nata a Milano , acquarellista, sta portando avanti una singolare ricerca nell'alchim|a dei colori e dei soggetti pittorici, passando con estrema disinvoltura dal figurativo alle originali interpretazioni astratte. In entrambi i generi se ne riconosce l'impronta personale nel particolare utilizzo della pennellata. Si intuisce un percorso artistico preciso ed in continuo divenire. La sua formazione si >> avvalsa dell'aiuto di importanti maestri contemporanei quali Luigi Zucchero e Antonio Galloni. ...