Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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"MAGNOLIAS", acrylic painting on panel, flowers, geometry, nature, flora pattern
Located in Toronto, Ontario
MAGNOLIAS is a new acrylic painting on panel by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 18x24". The artist has written about an epiphany she had studying tre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
I Love Shoes - #6 - (8.25”x9.25”, Original Artwork, Framed, Part of Series)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This artwork blends acrylic, pencil and color pencils in a loose style keeping it both expressive and refined. The art floats above the matte and is beautifully framed in a dark grey...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil
Clay Vessel, Minoan
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Clay Vessel, Minoan
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Plum Branches and Flowers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plum Branches and Flowers
watercolor on wove paper, 1985
Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner
From the artist's 1985 sketchbook
Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy.
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches
Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter
1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS
The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows.
O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.”
Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.”
“The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.”
When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.”
O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.”
Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes.
As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Socks)
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and tea on masking tape
Signed and dated, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Born in New York City and educated at the Maryland Institute C...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Tape, Tea
Juniper Skyway - Trees and Ocean Scene, Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
My work is about something I wish I could have seen, imaginary worlds, a commentary on awe that is inspired by nature, science, and history. Objects in my work are a stand in for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Homage to Chanel - 4" x 6", Original Artwork, Black And White, Blue
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
An homage to the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. Textured elements add visual interest to this mixed media artwork on board. With delicate detail, this piece combines paint, pencil and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Paper
Terracotta Head, 6-7th Century C.E.
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Terracotta Head, 6-7th Century C.E.
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Elisa
Located in Burlingame, CA
A cake top realistically depicts a cake by female baker, Elisa.
Colored pencil on paper. 'Elisa' is 13.5 x 15 inches and professionally framed measuring 14.75 x 16 inches.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Kassie
Located in Burlingame, CA
A cake top realistically depicts a cake by female baker, Kassie.
Colored pencil on paper. 'Kassie' is 13.5 x 13.25 inches and professionally framed measuring 14.5 x 14.25 inches.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"PLENTY", watercolor, abstract, ice cream, landscape, patterns, textiles, fruit
Located in Toronto, Ontario
PLENTY is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30". Note the gentle complexity of the composition, the suggestion of dollops of ice cream and fruit, or piles of colorful clothes, or a fanciful landscape. The scale grows large and small, far away and right in your lap!
From Fleur Thesmar – "My memory invents places and shapes, finding new games of mirrors thanks to mathematical models and theories. Shapes resembling bowls of fruit, balloons, landscapes and so on, actually fulfill a dream of mine to free the imagination and let the viewer invent as well."
Having moved her family from France to America, artist Fleur Thesmar closely observed the changes in her world – from the seemingly obvious such as surrounding landscapes, the light of day and weather, the flowers, trees and shorelines – to the smaller less obvious shifts, such as how one behaves in a new world, in a new home, how one cherishes certain belongings and certain memories.
Her artistic practice is borne out of that close observation and shift in perspective, and has led to a number of successful gallery shows in the U.S. and internationally. Fleur Thesmar has shown at Beacon Gallery in Boston MA, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY, Old West Museum, Cheyenne WY, Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont MA, and Salon Ile-de-France 2020, Bourg-La-Reine, France. Her work is on permanent display at the Tower Hill Botanic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Brick Light - Geometric Organic Scene, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid
Brick Light
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
17.25h x 14.25w x 0.75d in
43.81h x 36.20w x 1.91d cm
CMH060
Artist's S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Gentle Winter - Geometric Organic Nature Scene, Watercolor & Gouache, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
My work is about something I wish I could have seen, imaginary worlds, a commentary on awe that is inspired by nature, science, and history. Objects in my work are a stand in for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
"STELLATA MAGNOLIA 2", watercolor, tree, flowers, forsythia, home, architecture
Located in Toronto, Ontario
STELLATA MAGNOLIA 2 is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 30x22". Note the fluid precision of the tree, blossoming into...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Portrait of Woman, Contemporary Mixed Media Work on Paper by Michael Eisemann
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original mixed media painting of a portrait and still life images by Israeli artist, Michael Eisemann. The artwork is hand-signed and dated in ink...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Watercolor
White Eggplant on Black Table
Located in New York, NY
"White Eggplant on Black Table" is a color pencil drawing by artist Emilio Sanchez, circa 1995. It is drawn to the paper edge and initialed "ES" in the lower right. The "Emilio Sanch...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
"DEATH VALLEY", watercolor, mojave desert, Badwater, storm, sky, clouds, salt
Located in Toronto, Ontario
DEATH VALLEY is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30" and is professionally framed in white with UV protection, anti-glare glass. Framed it m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Neowise - Comet Passing Through Geometric Landscape at Night, Original Artwork
Located in Chicago, IL
My work is about something I wish I could have seen, imaginary worlds, a commentary on awe that is inspired by nature, science, and history. Objects in my work are a stand in for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Sewing Machine, Watercolor on Paper, Red, Yellow by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Sewing Machine - 26 x 20 inches (unframed size)
Watercolor on Paper.
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Secret Garden 12 - 21st Century, Flower, White, Black, Contemporary Art
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Secret Garden 12, 2020
white ink on black cardboard
27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in.
70 H x 100 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Cardboard
Monolith No. 5, Surreal Botanical, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Christina Haglid
Monolith No. 5
watercolor and gouache on paper
8h x 9w in
20.32h x 22.86w cm
CMH071
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection betwee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Night Forest, Surreal Landscape, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
My work is about something I wish I could have seen, imaginary worlds, a commentary on awe that is inspired by nature, science, and history. Objects in my work are a stand in for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Tires
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Tires" is an original paper, enamel, pastel, inkjet prints, chain, wire, and tubing sculpture by Drew Leshko measuring approx. 11.5"h x 8.5"w x 0.75d.
Drew Leshko is a Philadelphia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wire, Enamel
Contemporary pastel realism drawing umbrellas symmetrical red signed
By Tom Shelton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Umbrella Drawing II" is an original oil pastel drawing on paper by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts four leaning red umbrellas.
23" x 25" art
Tom ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Homage to Chanel - 2 - (4" x 6", Black And White, Yellow, Chanel Art)
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
An homage to the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. Textured elements add visual interest to this mixed media artwork on board. With delicate detail, this piece combines paint, pencil and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Paper
Original Untitled Plant and Vase Drawing by Jonas Wood
By Jonas Wood
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Untitled Plant and Vase Drawing
(Inv # JBRW0021.01.87)
Ink on paper, framed
9 x 6 3/8 inches" paper size
2015
signed and dated on back
Original!
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Souvenirs" - pastel drawing, nature, plants, still life, surreal, skull, heart
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 46 by 34 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism....
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Green men, Fashion models new york city 2021. Watercolor fashion drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Watercolor, Ink
Dandelion Pair, Fine Graphite Botanical Artwork on Black Paper
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
These elegant graphite dandelion drawings belie the rigor of their process. Once the surface of the paper is prepared, Glass uses a stylus to carefully delineate the lacy quality of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Blooming Peony by Ellen Williams, Contemporary art, Minimalist art, Drawing
Located in Deddington, GB
Blooming Peony [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
coloured pencil on 150gsm paper
Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Samantha Haring "Foggy" - Chalk Pastel on Paper
Located in New York, NY
"I make quiet paintings in a noisy world. My work is an intimate meditation on humble objects and the detritus of studio life. I aim to promote a reengagement with the mundane while ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aka Beni Kosh
Still Life with Flowers
Colored pencil on paper
Unsigned
Signed with the estate stamp on reverse (see photo)
Estate No. 716
Condition: Soft fold through image, wri...
Category
1960s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Ellen Williams, Anemone I, Original drawing, Affordable Art, Minimalist Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Ellen Williams
Anemone I
Original drawing
Pencil on 150gsm Paper
Image Size: H 30cm x W 20cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece ma...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Samantha Haring "Stack" - Chalk Pastel on Paper
Located in New York, NY
"I make quiet paintings in a noisy world. My work is an intimate meditation on humble objects and the detritus of studio life. I aim to promote a reengagement with the mundane while ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
In Another World (red and neutral patterned print)
Located in New York, NY
Angela A’Court’s narrative and still life drawings use a simple and direct vocabulary to show the relationship of experience to expression of beauty and the quirkiness of every day m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Pastel
Nest, Highly Detailed Surreal Botanical, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
This surreal landscape comes from the inner sanctum of artist Christina Haglid. Two paper orbs combine and reveal a portal to another dimension. The artist invites the viewer to take a closer look at nature, to question what is seen and to enter into a newly created world. Meticulous in her execution, Haglid uses watercolor as one might use a colored pencil. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. The piece is matted and framed in a simple white frame measuring 20.25 x 16.75.
Christina Haglid
Nest, 2020
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
CMH051
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at night...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
"Rabbit Disguised as a Tomato Basil Potato Chip, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rabbit disguised as a Tomato Basil Potato Chip" is an original photograph embellished with ink and watercolor by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Orange and Green Peppers
Located in New York, NY
"Red Peppers" is a color pencil drawing, circa 1995, is by Emilio Sanchez. It is drawn to the paper edge and unsigned. Noted "Emilio Sanchez Foundation" on verso.
EMILIO SANCHEZ (1...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Tribute to Morandi #30
Located in Dallas, TX
Bob Stuth-Wade: Tribute to Morandi, 2018
"Life is what happens while I'm thinking of something else."
"Driving. Listening to the radio. Talking on the phone. Thinking of where I'm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Emerald - Surreal Landscape, Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
My work is about something I wish I could have seen, imaginary worlds, a commentary on awe that is inspired by nature, science, and history. Objects in my work are a stand in for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Survival IV, Charcoal on Fabriano Paper, Black, White by Indian Artist"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Survival IV - 26 x 20 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal on Fabriano Paper.
Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by introspecting within himself. The fears of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Red Peppers
Located in New York, NY
"Red Peppers" is a color pencil drawing by artist Emilio Sanchez. It is drawn to the paper edge and initialed "ES" in the lower left. "Emilio Sanchez Found...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Garden Clippings no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Garden Clippings no. 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bright Ocean, Highly Detailed Surreal Landscape, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
A paper lantern explodes out of the water, as if propelled by an inner, unknown force. This surreal landscape is done in exacting detail with watercolor and gouache down to the smal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Circulus VI. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Paul Rossi
Located in Brecon, Powys
Amazing, fantastical images pepper the entire painting. It for all the world looks like a piece of Wedgwood porcelain has come to life and the characters are playing in a new reality...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
St. Briac, France - watercolor, matted in archival sleeve
Located in Burlingame, CA
St. Briac, France watercolor created by Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb creates watercolors with graphite on paper, as a method of personal journaling his travels, both personal and professional. The series of watercolors depicts places where the artist visits, and captures the essence of the place and its atmosphere. This work is 9 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches and is matted in an archival museum mat with an outer dimension of 15 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches. And it comes in a crystal clear archival storage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Tail Feathers / botanical watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tail Feathers' is a stunning botanical watercolor in warm rust, red and cream, created by Adrienne Sherman, whose poetic and sophisticated floral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Passion Flower
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bronze warm sophisticated Passion Flower botanical watercolor crated by Adrienne Sherman, whose poetic floral series is at once modern, fresh and contem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Stacked Tubes
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stacked river tube graphite drawing from Mary Robertson who is steeped in the Bay Area figurative movement. Her Mary oeuvre focuses on Northern California's Russian River, where she ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Same Shit
By Burak Ata
Located in Kansas City, MO
Burak Ata
Title: Same Shit
Year: 2017
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 25 x 25 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist
Burak Ata was born in Istanbul in 1989. He graduated fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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Cloud Lake - Highly Detailed Surreal Landscape, Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Translucent vessels are suspended upon the surface of the water in this surreal landscape entitled "Cloud Lake". This landscape is done in exacting detail with watercolor and gouache down to the smallest water droplet. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting. The piece is matted and framed in a simple white frame measuring 20.25 x 16.75 inches.
Christina Haglid
Cloud Lake
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
27.94h x 20.32w cm
CMH053
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Rainbow Shell - Watercolor of a Tiny Rainbow Colored Shell on a Blue Background
Located in Chicago, IL
"Rainbow", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor of a tiny sea shell painted on a blue starry background. The paper had a deckled edge and matted with a heavy w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Rare Unknown Dinner Plate
By Robert Arneson
Located in Morton Grove, IL
mixed media on paper
image size: 17 X 25
framed size: 28 X 34
Provenance-
Originally purchased from the Candy Store. It is from the Cherie and Ron Petersen collection and exhibited in 1989 in an exhibition "Collectors Choice, Drawings Paintings and Prints from the collection of Cherie and Ron Petersen".
Bio-
Born in Benicia, California in 1930, Robert Arneson was encouraged by his father to draw. He became a proficient draftsman early in life and drew cartoons for a local newspaper as a teenager. After Arneson studied art education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland he taught in a local high school, where he became interested in ceramics. He went on to receive an MFA from Mills College in 1958. Arneson became head of the ceramics department at the University of California at Davis in 1962 and became a full professor of art in 1973.
Arneson was greatly influenced by the expressionist work of fellow Californian Peter Voulkos, who had studied Pablo Picasso’s works...
Category
1970s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Canopy, Trees Emerging from a Vase, Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
Located in Chicago, IL
Tree roots emerge from a vase to create a forest of trees in Christina Haglid's "Canopy". The artist invites the viewer to take a closer look at nature, to question what is seen and to enter into a newly created world. Meticulous in her execution, Haglid uses watercolor as one might use a colored pencil. Layer upon layer of color is added to achieve this impressively detailed painting.
Christina Haglid
Canopy
watercolor and gouache on paper
11h x 8w in
21.75h x 18w in framed
CMH033
Artist's Statement
Tiny Sanctuaries
There has always been an intersection between the process of writing and the act of painting in my work. It has somehow been my guide. In the last four years, during the making of this work, that connection intensified as I started writing short stories and flash fiction while taking online classes. I find the process of writing and painting so different in almost every way, but there is something freeing and generative in writing which helps my painting process. Or perhaps it's a reminder of what painting is for me - something intuitive that needs to be trusted. And what they do have in common is a desire to encapsulate and distill a single moment, a story, about the complexity of our emotions and experiences.
At the heart of my work is the recurring depiction of perseverance, strength of will, and a subtle optimism. Symbolically through the objects, precarious situations depict a moment of possible difficulty, often involving the influence of nature. A paper crane left in the snow. A boat nearly filled to the brim, but not submerged and able to drain its own contents carefully. A slide alone at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
"Day Lily, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Day Lily" is an original watercolor by David Barnett. The artist signed and dated the piece lower right. It depicts a yellow and orange lily in front of a light blue-green backgroun...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
L'Ucello Study - Original Charcoal Study of a Bird on Toned Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Tina Figarelli is a classically trained artist whose favorite subject matter in her artwork is ideas with a strong narrative. Tina leaves the viewer hin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Archival Paper
Baggage Claim, Bags #2
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed "Rhonda V" in memory of the artist's mother
From the series: Baggage Claim, inspired by the death of the artist's mother. The reference to "Baggage" is symbolic to all the emotion and hurt one accumulates through life and how the accumulations weights down on the spirit.
Watercolor on Yupo paper...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Baggage Claim (Bags #1)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Created in 2017 this series, Baggage Claim, speaks to the symbolic emotional weight one accumulates through life and how the accumulations weigh down the spirit. The artist used handbags...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Four Stones
By Idoline Duke
Located in Fairfield, CT
Frame is additional $325.
I was born in Manhattan, but the most important places in my life have been here on Long Island by the ocean and in the mountains and forests of Vermont. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Willow - Botanical Watercolor & Gouache on Paper with Single Bud Vase and Tree
Located in Chicago, IL
A single bud vase, a willow tree seeming to grow inside a confined vessel, all appearing to float upon a sea of moving water are the subjects of Christ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
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