JUST ADD WATER: Watercolor Exhibition at Studio Quercus

STUDIO QUERCUS

JAN 12 – FEB 16, 2013

Also open for Oakland Art Murmur

Just Add Water

A survey of Bay Area artists who use water-based media on paper.

Artist’s Reception: Saturday Jan 12, 4–6pm

About the Exhibition:

Studio Quercus is pleased to present Just Add Water, a survey of Bay Area artists who use water-based media on paper. The show, featuring works by eight artists with widely varied approaches, opens January 12 and concludes February 16.
Water-based work, employing watercolor, gouache, ink, or acrylic, traditionally has been used to explore ideas that might later be fully developed in oil on canvas. However, the spirit of experimentation and exploration that is associated with works on paper can be beautiful and inspiring, and is echoed by the artists featured in this show.
The featured artists — Amy Wilson Faville, John Fadeff, Michael Hall, Scott Hewicker, Alex Jackson, Carrie Lederer, Kara Maria, and Francesca Pastine — offer a broad overview of what is possible in water-based mediums.

Watercolor Paintings in the Barns Collection & Winslow Homer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

I had a great time in Philadelphia last November looking at Art.  I was able to visit the Barns Collection. I saw a fantastic Winslow Homer exhibit at the Philadelphia museum, Shipwreck! I also saw "Dancing Around the Bride," which included some conceptual watercolors by John Cage and Marcel Duchamp.

The Barns has amazing work by Charles Demuth, and Paul Cezanne amoung others.  Here are some images from that collection:

charles Demuth

charles Demuth

Jules Pascin

American and Bulgarian, active in France, 1885–1930

Offering to Venus (Offrande à Vénus)

1922Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and brown ink on thin paperboard18 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (47.6 x 42.5 cm)

 

 

French

Red and Blue Flowers and White Daisy

c. 1840Watercolor with graphite underdrawing on parchment9 3/16 x 7 1/4 in. (23.3 x 18.4 cm) 

 

 

 

 

Paul Signac

French, 1863–1935

Genève

1919Watercolor with graphite underdrawing on thin wove paper7 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (19.7 x 29.2 cm)

  

Paul Klee

 

 

 

Paul Cézanne

French, 1839–1906

Trees (Arbres)

c. 1900 (possibly earlier)Watercolor and graphite on laid paper12 3/16 x 18 11/16 in. (31 x 47.5 cm)

Paul Cézanne

French, 1839–1906

The Coach House (La Remise à Château Noir)

1890–1895Watercolor and graphite on wove paper12 3/8 x 19 1/16 in. (31.4 x 48.4 cm)

 

Paul Cézanne

French, 1839–1906

The Coach House (La Remise à Château Noir)

1890–1895Watercolor and graphite on wove paper12 3/8 x 19 1/16 in. (31.4 x 48.4 cm)

 

IMAGE FROM "SHIPWRECK!" AT PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

Painting with Water Based Media Class at CCSF

My CCSF class, Painting With Water-Based Media, runs April 19 through May 16

The purpose of this course is to engage you in a laboratory of contemporary practice using water-based mediums such as watercolor paint, gouache, and ink. We will also experiment with different surfaces and collage. You will begin to set up experiments that will lead you to your own unique visual language. you will be introduced to the process and techniques of traditional watercolor painting and water media as a component to mixed media works. Methods of critical analysis, color literacy, contemporary painting issues, and basic painting methods and skills will be introduced. We will communicate ideas and concepts through artistic development and art making; complete individual and collaborate art practices; and combine visual thinking and creative problem solving in the creation of finished paintings. There will be image lectures, suggested exhibitions and readings, and group interaction through critiques and shared experience. you will be asked to maintain a visual journal that communicates creative process, assignments, ideas and musings through drawing, collage and water media experiments.

Examples of interesting works with traditional and untraditional methods.  For example, Mary Delany creates rich black grounds in ink to bolster the luminosity of her botanical paintings. Ross Bleckner uses bleach on his watercolors, Wangechi mutu uses collage and inks on vellum.

Mary Delany

ink and watercolor

 yvonne estrada

ball point pen, graphite, watercolor, ink

 ross bleckner

watercolor

wangechi mutu

mixed media on vellum