Painting above by Fredericka Foster. More by Foster at the end of this post.
What makes painted water look like water? Is it the tone of blue, or by the reflective color of the sky? Is it optic magic from glazes and transparent pigments? Or is it indicated by perfect color mixes, sequences of color matches? What about dashed brushstrokes horizontal across the flat, or diagonally splashed motion? What if instead of painting an illusion you recorded the patterns made by fluids, time and gravity, layered in waterfall abstracts. Or integrated symbolic cues: a fish, a net, a boat. What makes paint turn into water?
This is by no means a complete collection of styles. This is just 100 … er … 133 paintings of water. Please post whatever paintings I have missed.
3 millenia old fresco
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Marquet
Alex Kanevsky
Alyssa Monks
Alyssa Monks
Anders Zorn
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
Childe Hassam
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Claude Joseph Vernet
David Hockney
David Hockney
Edward William Cooke
Edward William Cooke
Emil Nolde
Emile A Gruppe
Emile A Gruppe
Eugene Delacroix
Allegro Maestoso
Fitz Hugh Lane
Fitz Hugh Lane
Frederic Church
Frederick Varley
Frits Thaulow
George Bellows
Gustave Courbet
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Huang Junbi
Hughie Odonoghue
Isaac Levitan
Isaac Levitan
Isaac Levitan
Ivan Konstantinovich
Ivan Konstantinovich
Ivan Aivozovsky
Ivan Aivozovsky
JMW Turner
James McNeil Whistler
James McNeil Whistler
Japanese screen (unknown)
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
Jez Bridle
Anne Morrison
Joan Eardley
Joan Eardley
Joan Eardley
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John Singleton Copley
John Sloan
JMW Turner
Max Beckmann
Ngapa Jukurrpa
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud
Pat Steir
Pat Steir
Pedro Covo
Pedro Covo
Pedro Covo
Mondrian
Ran Ortner
Ran Ortner
Ran Ortner
Richard Eurich
Ruthie V.
Ruthie V.
Ruthie V.
Samantha French
Sarrita King
Sonofoitova (devientart)
Fresco (unknown)
Thierry De Cordier
Tom Thomson
Vija Celmins
Willem Van Der Velde
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
Xu Lei
Zao Wou Ki
Zao Wou Ki
Zaria Forman
Zaria Forman
Eugene Delacroix
Sarah Knock
“Water is always a verb, its interaction with light and topography is constantly changing.” – Fredericka Foster
Cezanne painted 29 portraits and made countless drawings of Hortense Fiquet. He drew and painted his mistress in graphite, watercolor, and oil. The first painting exists only in a photograph, and the second was of Fiquet nursing their baby. Fiquet and Cezanne met in Paris sometime around 1869. Cezanne was a 30 year old painter …
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Keith Pfeiffer trained as an illustrator, and recently decided to jump over the fence to be a professional fine artist. His observation based drawings are finely tuned and skillfully rendered, with a focus on line and tone. His sketches are posted on Instagram for very affordable prices. We had just hired him at the League …
Kiki MacInnis is a painter who lives and works in Seattle. In her current practice she focuses on drawing with brush and ink on paper. She draws large drift trees and roots on site at the beach, and brings smaller matter like seaweed holdfasts, barnacles and shells back to her studio. Each time she returns to the …
100 Paintings of Water
Painting above by Fredericka Foster. More by Foster at the end of this post.
What makes painted water look like water? Is it the tone of blue, or by the reflective color of the sky? Is it optic magic from glazes and transparent pigments? Or is it indicated by perfect color mixes, sequences of color matches? What about dashed brushstrokes horizontal across the flat, or diagonally splashed motion? What if instead of painting an illusion you recorded the patterns made by fluids, time and gravity, layered in waterfall abstracts. Or integrated symbolic cues: a fish, a net, a boat. What makes paint turn into water?
This is by no means a complete collection of styles. This is just 100 … er … 133 paintings of water. Please post whatever paintings I have missed.
Paintings by Fredericka Foster:
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