watercolors
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John Singer Sargent
In a Levantine Port
ca. 1905 – 1906
Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing on paper
12 1/16 x 18 1/8 in. (30.6 x 46 cm.)
Brooklyn Museum
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Arches watercolor paper
The longevity of Arches watercolor paper depends on how it is stored, used, and cared for. Archival Quality: Arches watercolor paper is made from 100% cotton, is acid-free, and is designed to be archival. If stored properly, it can last for centuries without yellowing or deteriorating.
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The Utilitarianism Series explores aspects of human behavior. I chose to focus on serial killers because they often display a lack of empathy and guilt, and tend to become highly self-centered individuals. These traits are what categorize certain serial killers as psychopaths. Interestingly, serial killers frequently wear a metaphorical “mask of sanity” to conceal their true psychopathic nature and can come across as normal and even charming. It’s fascinating to see how these behaviors, which we sometimes conceal within ourselves, are reflected in such extreme cases.
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In 1990 #Texas, USA, a runaway teenage girl was kidnapped, tortured, and killed. She was terrified and made to pose in front of and inside an old barn before her murder by a serial killer. She was 14.
Utilitarianism Series: The Last Victim
2020
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9 in.
Price: Not for Sale
📷: Serial killer
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“พวกเธอต้องเรียนรู้ความเป็นมนุษย์ก่อนถึงจะเรียนศิลปะ” (To truly understand art, it is important to first gain a deeper understanding of humanity.) — Silpa Bhirasri
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world.
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“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light … Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won.” — John Lewis
John Lewis
2020
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9 in
Price: Not for Sale
📷: Unknown
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Alla Prima
Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting,
in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered
layers of wet paint. This technique requires a fast way of working,
because the work has to be finished before the first layers have dried.
It may also be referred to as ‘direct painting’ or the French term au premier coup (at first stroke).[1]
Wet-on-wet painting has been practiced alongside other techniques
since the invention of oil painting, and was used by several of the
major Early Netherlandish painters in parts of their pictures, such as Jan van Eyck in the Arnolfini portrait, and Rogier van der Weyden.[2]
In traditional painting methods new layers were applied to most parts
of a painting only after allowing the previous layer to completely dry.
This drying process could vary from several days to several weeks,
depending on the thickness of the layer. Work done using “alla prima”
can be carried out in one or more sessions – depending on the type of
paints used and their respective drying time – but it is mostly done in
one session or “sitting” only.[3]
Among the many Baroque painters who favored an alla prima technique were Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals. In the Rococo era, connoisseurs appreciated bold alla prima painting, as exemplified in the works of artists such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Francesco Guardi, and Thomas Gainsborough.
Since the mid-19th century, the use of commercially produced pigments
in portable tubes has facilitated an easily accessible variety of
colors to be used rapid and on-the-spot painting. Impressionists like Claude Monet, post-Impressionists like Vincent van Gogh, realists like John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri and George Bellows, Expressionists such as Chaim Soutine, and the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning
have each in different ways exploited the potential for fluid energy in
the application of oil paints. It is still heavily used by both
figurative and non-figurative fine artists today.[4]
In the medium of watercolors,
wet-on-wet painting requires a certain finesse in embracing
unpredictability. Highly translucent and prone to accidents, watercolor
paint will bloom in unpredictable ways that, depending on the artist’s
frame of mind, can be a boon or a burden.