WENDY ARTIN
Wendy Artin is an American watercolor artist that lives in Rome. I found out about her a few years ago, and have been a private fan ever since. Now I get to share her with everyone! :) You can find her website at http://www.wendyartin.com/ . Please visit it if you like this article- she's awesome, and there's a library of additional links, images, and articles on her.
The best of her work is full of a variety of precise hard edges and soft wet passages, where the dramatically simplified subject only partially emerges from the paper. Her figurative paintings, to me, wonderfully distill that desire to let a painting be a record not only of the world held still for a moment, but also of the painter's body in motion, working in tandem with the paper and water. You can see the delicate brushwork like a signature, the soft edges that remain behind after the water has evaporated, the texture of the paper popping through like peppered light. The goal isn't to hide these gears and inner workings of the art-making process, to create a better illusion of sorts, but instead to share and use them to greater effect.
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