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unusual facts about watercolor



Airbrush

The first instrument to be named the "airbrush" was developed by Abner Peeler "for the painting of watercolors and other artistic purposes" and used a hand-operated compressor.

Aldo Raimondi

Specializing in watercolor painting, an exclusive piece of his repertoire, in 1939 he was appointed a professor of watercolors at the Academy of Brera, a chair he left immediately after the war to devote himself full-time to making films.

Angel Zamarripa

Angel Zamarripa Landi (b. November 16, 1912 – d. July 6, 1990) was a Mexican cartoonist and watercolor artist, best known for his satirical work which appeared in Mexican newspapers and magazines for over fifty years.

Anna S. Fisher

Fisher was a member of the American Watercolor Society; the National Academy Museum and School; the American Watercolor Society; the New York Society of Painters; Allied Artists of America; the National Arts Club and the National Association of Women Artists.

Blasting St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton

Blasting St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton is a watercolor created by Norwich artist John Sell Cotman.

Bob Klose

In 2006, Klose wrote an accompanying essay for a picture book of previously unpublished Rowland Hilder's watercolor paintings, entitled "Rowland Hilder's British Isles".

Burchfield

Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), American watercolor painter, born in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio

Charles C. Ingham

Settling in New York City, he distinguished himself by his oil painting, but also in watercolor on ivory, a standard medium for miniature portraits since the 18th century.

Charles Logasa

The show featured 34 or 35 works from New York, among them two watercolors by Paul Cézanne, two drawings and two oils by Pablo Picasso, a drawing and a watercolor by Henri Matisse and two Georges Braque.

Chike Aniakor

Along with Uche Okeke, Aniakor was among the first Nsukka artists to develop an interest in uli, and his drawings and watercolors display a strong affinity to the system.

David Aldrich

Mr. Aldrich had numerous one-man exhibitions, notably at the Providence Art Club, the Rhode Island Watercolor Society, and the Gallery on the Commons in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

Dee Molenaar

He painted the highest watercolor in history, spending 10 days in a tent painting K2 from memory at 25,000 feet during a severe storm that hit during the 1953 expedition.

Dorothea Holt Redmond

Marty Sklar described how "Her watercolor sketches were extraordinary place-making".

Emilius R. Ciampa

He enjoyed both watercolor and oil painting, and painted profusely until just before his death, which came just one week short of his 100th birthday.

Enchanted Forest Water Safari

Concept watercolor paintings for the park were done by Russell Patterson, who also worked on the designs of the several individual fairy tale houses in the park.

Federigo Pedulli

Federigo Pedulli (Brisighella, February 15, 1860- after 1938) was an Italian painter, mainly of watercolor vedute of exterior and interior scenes.

Ferdinand Runk

The asteroid 4662 Runk was named by Czech astronomer Jana Tichá after Ferdinand Runk, as Runk had in 1830 painted a panoramic watercolor of the view from Kleť (1038 meters), the location of the Kleť Observatory.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heine

Throughout 1908 Heine traveled to Door County, Wisconsin and Muir Woods California, many watercolor paintings were the result of these trips.

Georges Cochevelou

The astignomètre, one was winning in the competition Lepine for its eclectic works (the astignomètre, an ophthalmological device, for example), created a lamp of lounge (sold by Lancel, French leatherware), built furniture like a real cabinet maker (French polish, marquetry), painted paintings in an original technique "of watercolor in the oil" on panels of hardboard painted in white (exhibition of the independents to the academy Raymond Duncan).

Giuseppe Agujari

Giuseppe Agujari (Adria, 1843 - Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 16, 1885) was an Italian-Argentine painter, known mainly for his watercolor canvases.

Gunnar Widforss

Gunnar Mauritz Widforss (1879–1934) was a Swedish American artist who specialized in painting subjects from the wilderness in watercolor.

Hardie Gramatky

In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of America's 20 greatest watercolorists.

Henry Elliott

Henry Wood Elliott (1846–1930), American watercolor painter, author, and environmentalist

Jessel Miller

She had a one person show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1980, "Bay Area Personalities", watercolor portraits of Maya Angelou, Herb Caen, Louise Cavis, Melvin Belli and Dianne Feinstein.

John Salminen

John T. Salminen (born January 18, 1945) is an award-winning American watercolor painter who is well known for his realistic urban landscapes.

Julien-Léopold Boilly

Julien-Léopold Boilly (30 August 1796, Paris – 14 June 1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French artist noted for his 1820 booklet Album de 73 Portraits-Charge Aquarelle’s des Membres de I’Institute containing watercolor caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, the only known portrait of him.

Karel Škréta

According to Houbraken he painted portraits and lived together with the respected watercolor painter Willem Bouwer in Rome.

Linda Obermoeller

At the time of her death was displaying her work at the Harris Gallery in Houston, Texas and she had a painting displayed at the Watercolor USA Honor Society Watercolor Now II, a national juried exhibition, in which her watercolor, “Still Life with Trout”, won first place posthumously (1990).

Loefgrenianthus

The Danish Botanist Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren lived many years in Brazil where he was studying the flora of Minas Gerais State, painting watercolors of plants and was a director of Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden.

Luigi Premazzi

In Tiflis (Tbilisi, he painted a watercolor of the Via dei Calzolari Asiatici; Houses and Tartar Bazaar : Angolo di Case sul gran mercato; Angolo di case al ponte Aolabar, Via Sienskaja, The Magnificent Aolobar Bridge over the Kur River, The Right Bank of the Kur River, and the Piazza del gran Mercato Maydan.

Nusret Çolpan

He painted over 250 watercolor miniatures, mostly of cities, such as New York, Istanbul, Bukhara, Medina, Konya, and featured in many exhibitions until the year 1999.

Owl Woman

It was while at the fort in 1845 that topographical engineer Lieutenant James W. Abert asked Owl Woman to sit for him as the subject of a watercolor painting.

Preved

The picture, a modified version of John Lurie's watercolor Bear Surprise, whose popularity was stoked by emails and blogs, features a man and a woman having sex in the clearing of a forest, being surprised by a bear calling "Surprise!" with its paws raised.

Raffaele Armando Califano Mundo

His first master was the watercolor artist Giovanni Giordano Lanza (1827-1889), then he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, then he went to work in the studio under Stanislao Lista.

Rebecca Schiffman

Schiffman's watercolor portrait of philosopher Slavoj Žižek appeared as the author image on the inside book jacket for the UK edition of his book "Violence."

Rincon Center

The interior features the renowned "History of California" mural, composed of 27 watercolor murals painted by the Russian immigrant muralist Anton Refregier, from 1941 to 1948 under the Federal Art Project of the Work Projects Administration.

Saya Saung

The art scholar and painter Min Naing, biographer of Ba Nyan, documents that after Ba Zaw returned to Burma in 1930 from three years of studies at the Royal College of Art in London that he began to teach watercolor “wash” painting to Saya Saung.

Sex for Safety

The CD cover for Sex for Safety EP is a digitally rendered watercolor sketch by Tegan and Sara art director EE Storey.

Silence Is Madness

The cover watercolor illustration was created by American Visionary artist Don Swartzentruber.

Stephen Scott Young

After graduating from high school, Young attended the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where he was introduced to etchings and began to paint with watercolor.

Susanna Drury

She is chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings of the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim, which brought international attention to the site.

Tadao Okazaki

Charles Reid, Member, The National Academy of Design, U.S.A. and The Century Club, New York—Okazaki was taught watercolor techniques for over five years.

Wilson Lee Flores

Wilson Lee Flores spent his two years preparatory schooling at Chiang Kai Shek College in Manila, where he won a prize in a watercolor painting competition with his painting of a tiger.

Woody Crumbo

Crumbo continue his studies at Wichita University from 1933 to 1936, where he studied mural technique with Olle Nordmark, watercolor with Clayton Staples, and painting and drawing with Oscar Jacobson.


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