The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - While cleaning out her mother's home after she died in 2013, Tara Moorman opened an old trunk to find a collection of family photos dating to the late 1800s. Moorman, a watercolor ...

Before photography was around to detail the natural world, there were watercolor paintings. A recently launched database has digitized 80,000 (and counting) works painted during the medium’s heyday, ...

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Bernadette Gockowski works on a watercolor painting of Mother Henriette Delille May 3, 2019, at her home in St. Paul, Minn. Delille lived in New Orleans in the 1800s and founded the Sisters of the ...

If watercolor were a gender, it would be connected with women. Transparent, spontaneous, yet unpredictable interaction of pigment and water, watercolor demands precision, yet it brings out softness in ...

In Chinatown, Sandy Rodriguez’s solo exhibition honors the seven child migrants who died while in custody of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection between 2018 and 2019. Each child has been rendered ...

Stephanie McLaughlin says that she was "genetically trained" in visual art. The reason for this is simple: It runs in her family. Her great grandfather was an architect and an artist who once famously ...

DANBURY – While in college, Bryan Lee Madden of Danbury taught himself how to create intricate and detailed portraits using an Etch A Sketch, a toy that debuted in 1960 that has fascinated millions.