Here are Septembers batch of watercolour paintings. I think all are watercolours but cannot be absolutely certain with some of the artists I don't know. Also the names of the artists should be correct but mistakes are possible. Corrections welcome. Hopefully there is something for everybody. Several of these artists are new to me. While I like a broad range of watercolours, with a preference towards 'loose' and impressionistic ones, what I try and do here is display as wide a range as possible not necessarily because they are all to my personal taste. The intention is also to show what is possible with watercolour. Charles Reid Ogden Pleissner Milind Mullick Bev Jozwiak Boon Kwang Noncharoen Yuko Nagayama Morten E Solberg Snr - slightly different to Mortens wildlife paintings. Another from Lucy Newton Andy Evansen John Yardley - I believe this is a recent one. Yardley is now in his early eighties. Corneliu Dragan-Targoviste Ng Woon Lam Roberto Andreoli Igor Sava Alison Garlin Marc Folly Hla Thida Win Barbara Flowers Barnaba Salvador Lucy Newton - I love this artists work, See the tree creeper at the near top left. Yong Hong Zhong Rachel Mc Naughton

Here are Februarys batch - a bumper lot with a mixture of styles, old and new (to me) artists and much to ponder and study. Frank Ebers Angele Villat Xi Guo Ryan Fox Souvik Sil Ray Maclachlan This is a sketch by Ray, a friend and an amateur like me, who goes out at the crack of dawn to paint plein air in Australia! I thought I'd give him a thrill! Tim Oliver Igor Sava Janet Rogers Lovely portrait painter in a loose style. A female Charles Reid? Kourosh Asiani (?) Catherine Rey I love her work. Gerard Hendriks Charles Reid A typical Charles Reid study almost certainly painted as a workshop demo. Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey This young African artist is now a big name on the international circuit. He used to call me (in my and his early days ) Sir Peter! Janine Gallizia The surreal nature of her painting always appeals to me. Jung Hum-Sung Amazing portraits even though I admire super-realism I 'v never wanted to paint like that. Sarah Yeoman Robert Zangarelli This is great - my kind of painting. Gerard Hendriks Graham Flatt I'd never heard of this artist but love this one. Cesc Farre Jun Hun-Sung Gerard Hendriks Wow! Look at the colours. Charles Reid An excellent example of Charles figure work. Amongst these artists are several I haven't previously featured or indeed know anything about. If you 'google' them or search on Facebook at least some will be found for further study. I also feature some of my favourites.

This months batch are outstanding ( in my opinion) including many new to me. Some stunning stuff here. It never ceases to amaze me at the wealth of talent spread across the World. I don't comment on every one and this is no reflection on those artists. Several have featured before. I just comment off the cuff. Hope you like them. After looking at this lot I'm off to trash my paintings! Back to the drawing board. You may notice a few have 'copyright' or the artists names emblazoned across them. I'm assuming it's alright to feature them as I have no profit or other motives. If objections were received I'll delete them as there are thousands more with no such restrictions. Dean Crouser - I've always liked this American artists work and this is superb,. Eginta Tarasevich -Wonderful! Karl Martens. I like this artists studies of birds very much. He actually paints very large. Konstantin Sterkhov Igor Sava Adisom Pornsirikavn -Wow! Lian Quan Zhen What a stunner this is! Rick Huang Charles Reid Look at the simplicity of this. It's probably a half sheet painting. Darren Woodhead - Lovely Claude Buckle - Group of refugees, very effective Pol Ledent Chien Chung-Wei Hitesh Durgani Arthur Melville Another from Dean Crouser - I love this one too. Annemiek Grouenhout Jen Buckley Jem Bowden Eiginta Tarasevich Just had to put this in.

Here are the latest batch for May. Robert Wade by Cheng Chung Wei - Inspired by Charles Reids style - so says the caption. Love the painting. Judith Farnsworth Viktoria Prischedko Viktoria has her first UK workshop at Sidmouth, Devon in early May. Gerard Hendriks Enough said. How versatile is Gerard! Ben Gassenbauer Ektarina Savo Maksym Kisilov Aynur Akalin Jung-Hun-Sung Amit Kapoor Rachel Toll This young British artist has a very interesting website. Yuko Nagayama Fabulous detail and looseness plus colour combined brilliantly by this wonderful Japanese artist. Surentsetseg Munkhbaatar Fabulous Mongolian artist. What a name though! Tiejum Chao Sunhee Kim (think this is correct?) Anna Razumovskaya Another find! One of many in this batch. Look at her other work which is easily 'googled'. Another from Rachel Toll. - See above. Migull Linares Rios Konstantin Sterkov A well known Russian artist. Fikret Tunah Roberto Zangarelli Another well-known artist look at his website for more excellent paintings. What I try to do is give a wide range of different types of painting in watercolour to show the diversity and possibilities in this underrated medium. I think the above selection succeeds in doing this. Many of these artists are new to me and show how watercolour spans the World. Enlarge the ones that appeal to you, as not all will with personal preference, and give them careful study. If I have made any mistakes in the naming please feel free to correct me.

I visited my sister in Witney, Oxfordshire recently and took the opportunity to combine it with a trip to the watercolour exhibition in the nearby small, delightful, Cotswold village of Windrush. This took place under the name of the "The Pure Watercolour Society", something of a misnomer really as you can't actually join. Well-known watercolour artists are invited to exhibit at this exhibition by James Fletcher -Watsons daughter, who continues to live in the Fletcher family home, which incorporates a small gallery. I'm not sure how frequently it is held but has been a regular event for some years. Paintings and prints by James Fletcher-Watson were included, and there were books, cards and various other things for sale. The exhibition was staged between the 16th and 24th (today) of `November. Jake Winkle Nineteen artists took part including such notables as David Curtis, Trevor Chamberlain and Robert Wade. The latter, as far as I'm aware the only non British artist. Robert Wade, the doyen of Australian watercolourists, had taken part in previous exhibitions. Three ladies, Judi Whitton, Josephine Neil and Vanessa Whimney were part of the nineteen. I counted approximately 60 paintings on the walls. On the day we attended there were quite a few visitors as one might expect. Day and residential courses are held at the gallery and details are above and below. This is the 2020 schedule. Overall a very interesting and high class exhibition from a selection of top, primarily British, watercolour artists.

Igor Sava These look blurry resized on dashboard. Shame.

Here are the latest batch for October. I've tried to mix them up even more this month. D Joy McFadden (?) What colour! Love this....

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Watercolour and grey pen. Cobalt, ultramarine, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, cadmium yellow, and alizarin on Bockingford hot pressed paper. 39 x 29 cm.

Art print of watercolor architecture painting - Vilnius cityscape, "Vilniaus Universitetas". Lithuania Year: 2014 Not framed. Frame added only for preview Colors of painting may differ from preview you see on your monitor. It depends on your monitor settings. Follow me on Facebook www.facebook.com/OlgaSternyk/ And Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/olgasternyk/ More paintings and drawings are here www.etsy.com/shop/OlgaSternyk Few words about me. I've graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. I studied traditional painting and book illustration. I have Master of Fine Arts degree. Also I have 7 published illustrated books and few awards in Ukraine and other Eastern Europe countries.

It's nice to see if a second version has a fresher quality than the first. In this case, I don't think it really happened. There are things I like, and don't like, in both. The clouds are better in the first version, but I think the horizontal shadow in the foreground is too strong. I like the color in foreground of the second as well as the softer, lighter value. I think I'll crop the bottom of the second so there's not quite so much real estate down there.

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