Saturday Salon: Wonderful Watercolors

Contemporary painter Gabby Malpas - source

Contemporary Polish painter Grgegorz Wrobel - source

Contemporary Russian painter Galina Vasilyeva - source

Alfred Renaudin (1866 - 1944) Nasturtiums - source

Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853 - 1919) - source

Scottish painter Sir William Russell Flint  (1880 - 1969) - source

Contemporary painter Bella Foster - source

Giacinto Gigante with additions by a Bornone pupil - The House of Castor and Pollux, Pompeii - source

Contemporary painter Danielle O'Brien - source

Russian painter Catherine Klein (1861 - 1929) - source

Contemporary painter Dana Brown - source

Contemporary American painter Susan Abbott - source

Watercolor is extremely difficult to master as anyone who's tried knows all too well. Oh anyone can splash colors about, yes, but to splash in a disciplined manner, well that's rather a different kettle of fish. Especially since water has a mind of its own.

Sunday Salon: Pastels and Watercolors by Felicity House

Preparing Broad Beans

Glasshouse Tomatoes

Apples for a Pie

Courtyard Udai Bilas Palace

At St. Malo

Two English Plums (this may be mis-titled)

Aubergine and Lilies

Lemon Curd

Early Broad Beans

Morning Garden

Almuna Terrace

Barbotine Antiquities

Marmelade Making

Table Set for Lunch

Woodland Fungi

The China Egg

British contemporary painter Felicity House is one of my favorite artists. I love the soft quality of her work even when she's using bright color. I also love her very free hand. Her paintings and drawings have an elegant spontaneity which I find beguiling.

I'm mad about pastels and/or watercolor work, deceptively 'easy' mediums which are, in reality, extremely difficult to master. (There is nothing quite so wrong as a bad watercolor.)

But House's talent coupled with her charming view of life just captivates me.

To learn more about Felicity House and her wonderful work, please use this link. An interesting interview with the artist here.

I apologize for the fact that some of these paintings don't enlarge much, but I've posted the largest copies I could find.

All works of art in this post are copyrighted by Felicity House.