Watercolor / Watercolour Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Carolyn Judge - My name is Carolyn. I am an Auckland based Artist. I am a full time watercolourist. This is the only medium I work in as I find it beautiful, challenging, exasperating and magical. I love to paint still life, portraits and landscapes. I have adopted a methodology for painting still life and portraits and that gives me great control of my painting. I build up each layer until I'm happy with the richness of colour, form and depth. Painting landscapes requires a freer approach, a little more impressionistic but still with the ability to call out the details of a building or plant etc. I work mainly with transparent watercolours. This allows each layer of colour to be seen. Great effects and depth of colour can be achieved this way, but it also means any mistakes cannot be hidden! I occasionally use opaque pigments if I want a textural effect such as painting the bark on a tree, or some old flaking paint on a house. I try to paint everyday. I am very passionate about my work and paint even when away from home. I recently won two awards, a merit award for a portrait at the Mairangi ...

Yubirna Paulino - My name is yubirna paulino and I am a portrait artist, I go by my studio name yubisart. I am a self taught artist who has been drawing and painting for 8 years. I create artworks of people, i capture the likeness and expression of people using various medias such as watercolor, pencil, and colorpencil. I am a visual artist who captures the likeness of my artworks. drawing and painting is my passion and i use to express myself as an artist....

Mos Riera - In 1960 a collective of musicians leadered by Ornette Coleman who added to their music the intrinsic freedom in the jazz.He broke harmonic molds that there was establishing that the improvisation was establishing on the chords and destroyed the concept of the melody using sonorities that up to that one moment, only they were deserving the contemptuous epithet of cacophonies he altered the rhythmic metrics, canonical base of the jazz without losing the swing which up to this moment was looking like an absurdity and he was leaving freedom in order that his musicians were advancing for his norm that the attention to a luck of emotional community, this aspect that would come to the paroxysm on their disc Free Jazz recorded for Atlantic. Now, when all things must pass by computer screenas Nam June Paik predicted.When virtuality is a part of human real things, when histories in the press are not trustthe document more new today and the oldest the day after. Music, Art, Literature and Cinema industries are changing. Words like download, chat, e-mail, hard disc and windows are accepted throughout the world. Now when deep blue wins chess game to humans, when mobile phones ...