[image_with_animation image_url=”8949″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Been a while since I posted. Here’s a cheerful watercolor clusterlump of flowers painted by John Singer Sargent in 1905. My stars, look at that beautiful blue! Each flower perched atop a brushstroke.
That can’t be transparent blue to be that bright on top of other colors. Maybe he used some gouache? I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of watercolor painters do the finishing touches with bright splashes of an opaque “watercolor” – likely gouache.
Statuesque Emma standing on flowered blanket, drypoint on 14×11″ Rives gray BFK A sister image to the last drypoint I posted. The model’s pose reminded me of classical sculptures. This …
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Blue Gentians by John Singer Sargent
[image_with_animation image_url=”8949″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Been a while since I posted. Here’s a cheerful watercolor clusterlump of flowers painted by John Singer Sargent in 1905. My stars, look at that beautiful blue! Each flower perched atop a brushstroke.
That can’t be transparent blue to be that bright on top of other colors. Maybe he used some gouache? I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of watercolor painters do the finishing touches with bright splashes of an opaque “watercolor” – likely gouache.
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