Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
Assembly - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Koi Pond on Mulberry Paper
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
In Japan, they are known as Nishikigoi, or living jewels. These brilliantly colored varieties of the Amur carp have been selectively bred by family owned fisheries for generations. W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Horse - Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is an original contemporary artwork realized by Artist of the Mid 20th century.
A mixed colored tempera and china ink on jute glued on cardboard (with some foxings).
Signed o...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Tempietto Barbaro" - Venice - Architectural Watercolor Painting - Turner
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Tempietto Barbaro" is a watercolor and architectural drawing of the church built to serve the Villa Barbaro and the village of Maser, in the Veneto region of northern Italy, by Andrea Palladio in 1580. This piece is 19.5 by 16.25 inches framed.
McLean Jenkins is inspired by the work of JMW Turner, Richard Diebenkorn and Louis Khan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Torero
Located in Miami, FL
Fernando Botero
Torero, 1989
Colored markers on paper
12 x 8 1/2 in
Provenance:
Allegrini Piero, Brescia.
Galleria Panantu Casa de'Aste. Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.
August 5 - Sep...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Permanent Marker
Circle Series 30 One, Mandala Drawing, Spolvero, Sienna, Brown, Abstract, Dots
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This reddish brown pigment drawing was made with a perforated stencil laid on ivory rag paper, pounced with a sack of powdered pigment. Pigment passes through leaving marks, patterns...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment, Stencil
Teal and Orange Abstract Painting with Chine Colle and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
A vibrant contemporary teal and orange painting (Monotype) and found object collage composition of stamps, money, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Clown Fish" (2020) By Dustin Panzino, Procreate Illustration on Metal
Located in Denver, CO
"Clown Fish" (2020) by Dustin Panzino is a beautiful digital painting created in Procreate, which details a fantasy scene of a knighted version of a court's...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Metal
Women at Leisure I - Figurative Watercolor Portrait Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ama Liyanage, a contemporary artist and printmaker, creates whimsical paintings from her home studio in Ontario, Canada. Each piece holds minuscule painted details waiting to be discovered, narrating stories or invoking a touch of humor for perceptive observers.
This enchanting watercolor artwork on paper, featuring a woman on a couch in a luxurious room, measures 12 inches high by 16 inches wide. The delicate brushstrokes and ethereal hues evoke a sense of romance and whimsy. This artwork is not framed. The artist signed it on the front and the back and it comes with a certificate of authenticity from the art gallery. Convenient delivery is available for those in the local Los Angeles area, and affordable worldwide shipping is available for US and international art collectors.
Through her artwork, Liyanage proudly amplifies the voices of women of color, reclaiming spaces historically devoid of their representation. Drawing from her experiences as a Sri Lankan navigating colonial spaces in Canada, her art challenges one-dimensional portrayals of women of color often centered around labor. Inspired by French and Dutch Impressionist art...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Impatiens - Vibrant Floral Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Powder Coating, Watercolor
"Landscape" Abstract Drawing - Large Size- Contemporary Art Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
mineral oxide on paper (fabriano)
50 x 72 cm it i
Frame options available
her painting tells of the relationship between man, nature and time, the l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pigment
Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace, interiors, desert landscape, earth tones
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace"
2020
Work on paper by Japanese artist Miki Matsuyama, from her iconic artist studio study series featuring an interiors and desert landscape. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Soul Flowers 39 Symbiosis, Forest Life, Trees, Doorways, Windows Black and White
Located in Kent, CT
A small outlined figure walks on a bridge looking up at a meticulously rendered forest with trees with tiny leaves and windows and doorway portals peeking out from the branches and t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
Under Scattered Clouds: Abstract Chalk Drawing of Blue Clouds on Vintage Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract mixed media drawing of blue, black and grey clouds on vintage book pages
'Under Scattered Clouds' by Louise Laplante
chalk on vintage collaged book pages.
Artwork measures 26 x 40 inches unframed
30 x 43 inches in light wood frame
This dreamy, whimsical drawing of fluffy light blue clouds was created by Louise Laplante in 2019. The vivid silhouette of clouds are suspended in space, drifting against a background of an early 20th century book of fables. Illustrations on the page include a hot air balloon, a rocking horse, a pheasant. In certain segments the stenciled images are delicately brushed over with a thin wisp of chalk which adds a delicate textured effect to the drawing.
About the artist:
Interested in blending the old world with the new, mixed media artist Louise Laplante combines her original images with ephemera of the past, enticing a conversation about it’s “relevancy to the present.” Her compositions begin with vintage book pages, personal handwritten letters, sheet music, or instruction from old guides on etiquette or science. While the text itself is weighted with reference to a particular subject, the visual of the typed or handwritten words and printed illustrations establish a unique pattern. These layered backgrounds are superimposed with opaque charcoal drawings that are inspired by the themes read between the lines. Most recently, the artist has opted for larger scale work, combining multiple sheets of vintage paper to expand her unique motifs. Laplante exhibits across the Northeast and has shown with Carrie Haddad for more than ten years.
Artist Statement:
My work connects the texts, and ideas, in the vintage book...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Man with Blossoms_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Man with Blossoms"
Ink on Paper
33.5” x 31” Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Futile, Original Contemporary Watercolor Painting, Roses, Flowers
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Watercolor Painting, Unique Work. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Watercolor on Archival paper
Artist : Deniz Bayav
Subject : Futile (Title)
Signature : T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flight
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Black conte drawing of a male nude, part of ongoing series of drawings of the human form by San Francisco artist Fernando Reyes.
Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Landscape BW, Original Art on Paper , Ready to Hang, by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW
Mineral Oxide on Paper
55x74 cm
framed 68x88 cm
Original Art
Ready to Hang
The use of natural materials such as mineral oxide powder connects the work to a dimension...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Watercolor 9, Work on Paper, Colorful, Organic Shapes, Natural, Moving, Cosmos
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watercolor 9 is a 22" x 17.5" , watercolor on paper, by Melinda Hacket. It is white framed to 25" x 20.25. It is filled with rich earthy colors and organic moving shapes.
Melinda H...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
India Watercolour RCA Architect Painting Palace Udaipur Lake Travel Orange Blues
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is something compelling about drawings and sketches made by architects. Loose and full of life this delicious little study, made on the spot, beautifully captures the essence of place. Made during one of Patterson's early tours to India it shows the gloriously majestic Palace Museum in Udaipur, Rajasthan, which sits on the highest point overlooking Lake Pichola and the City. The delicate wash of terracottas, pinks and reds offers us the feel of sun on the old stones.
India Palace Museum (Udaipur), watercolour & pencil on paper, image 9.5cm x 14cm, framed 21.5cm x 24.5cm, Artist Stamp, signed in pencil bottom left, 1990
Doug Patterson...
Category
1990s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pencil
Nude of a Woman - Watercolor by Anastasia Kurakina - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Woman is a watercolor realized by Anastasia Kurakina in 2018.
The little artwork is in good condition and with vivid colors.
No signature.
Anastasia Kurakina was bor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Boy - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artist depicts a delicate...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE original art Paula Craioveanu Nude inspired by Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Pleasure Principle”, tempera pencil charcoal on blue paper
Check 1stDibs free shipping code for items over $500. Shipped rolled in a tube, well packed.
This bold and expressive dra...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Archival Paper
Elui with World Record Cow Elephant Tusk, 47 lbs., Marsabit Forest, Kenya – Art
By Peter Beard
Located in Zurich, CH
PETER BEARD (1938–2020, USA)
Elui with World Record Cow Elephant Tusk, 47 lbs., Marsabit Forest, Kenya, 1962/2006
Color print with gelatin silver print collage, watercolor, tempera paint, ink
Sheet 141 x 108,6 cm (55 1/2 x 42 3/4 in.)
Unique
Signed recto and verso in ink
Peter Beard (1938–2020) was an American artist who lived and worked in New York and Kenya. In Africa Peter Beard found the central theme of his life, the destruction of the natural animal world by man and civilization. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.
Inspired by earlier trips to Africa in both 1955 and 1960, Beard traveled to Kenya upon graduation. Working at Tsavo National Park, he photographed and documented the demise of 35,000 elephants and other wildlife, later to become the subject of his iconic book, “The End of the Game...
Category
1960s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Color, Silver Gelatin
At the Shore
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain."
--Thaddeus Radell
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Blue Blooms 3 - Blue Abstract Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SILENCE - original large blue female nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27.5in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Silence", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Size 39x27.5in /100x70cm
Free shi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Pencil, Archival Paper
Solarium. Drawing, oil bar, ink and colored pencils
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Oil bar, Pencil, Petal Flowers and Ink on Paper.
The base of this drawing is 120g/m2 Fabriano paper. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree bark as the first drawi...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil, Oil Pastel
Emerald Ammonite - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting on Mulberry Paper, Framed
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A 65 million year old sea creature is captured here through the art of Gyotaku by Jeff Conroy. After inking and taking impressions of a reproduction fossil Ammonite shell and combini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Pastel Drawing on Paper from the Series "Visual Diaries" by Contemporary Artist
Located in Vilnius, LT
The series of works "Visual Diaries" represents drawings on paper, featuring expressive abstractions or figurations created daily by the artist. Each work’s title includes the creati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - In the Field
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache, pastel & oil on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi St...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil, Gouache
Landscape BW, Original Art on Paper , Ready to Hang, by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW
Mineral Oxide on Paper
55x74 cm
framed 68x88 cm
Original Art
Ready to Hang
The use of natural materials such as mineral oxide powder connects the work to a dimension...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pigment
Early Morning
Located in New York, NY
ink and pastel on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Hercules and Deianira Neo Mythology by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Hercules and Deianira", ink on paper, part of Neo Mythology series. Comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Legend says Deianira w...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera
Marella Agnelli and Gianni Agnelli in Marrakesh. Diptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled (Standing Male Nude with Ropes and Arm Band)
Located in New York, NY
James Childs (1945-2020)
Untitled (Standing Male Nude with Ropes and Arm Band)
2010
Signed and dated, l.l.
Graphite and pastel crayon on paper
30.5 x 22 inches
$3,125
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
snake road, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A drawing :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
contemporary figurative black and white charcoal drawing pop art interior female
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand drawn original artwork on heavyweight paper framed in a flat black frame .
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Self Portrait, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Manjit Bawa
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Manjit Bawa - Self Portrait - 14.75 x 10.75 inches (unframed size)
Pen & Ink on Paper.
About the Artist 7 his works :
Born : July 30, 1941, Dhuri, Punjab.
Died : December 29, 2008 New Delhi.
Education :
1958-63 Studied at the School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic, New Delhi
Exhibitions :
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2013-14 'Transition', 20th Anniversary Show, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2013 'Ideas of the Sublime', presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
2013 'The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989', Smart Museum of Art at University of Chicago, Chicago
2012 'Art for Humanity', Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai
2012 'Contemporary: A Selection of Modern and Contemporary Art', prsented by Sakshi Gallery at The Park, Chennai
2012 'Crossings: Time Unfolded, Part 2', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'The Path of the Lotus: Indian Art', Grosvenor Gallery, London
2011 'Lets Paint the Sky Red', India Habitat Centre and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Anecdotes', Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2011 'High-Light', presented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai at The Oberoi, Gurgaon
2011 'Time Unfolded', Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi
2011 'Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India...
Category
1990s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Yellow Tulips in Tall Vase
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Yellow Tulips in Tall Vase' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Mask On, You’re Happy Now", Brightly Colored, Rainbow, Abstract, Mixed Media
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This brightly colored mixed media artwork titled "Mask On, You’re Happy Now" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, latex paint, marker and handmade sequins o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Thread, Paper, Sequins, Latex, Permanent Marker
Zinnias
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Zinnias' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internation...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Reading on Armchair 2 original female nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Reading on Armchair 2" nude, pencil and tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series. Size is 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm on heavy watercolor paper, with ultrama...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
A Love Couple - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Geronimo
By Tomas Lasansky
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, unique pencil drawing and collage by Tomas Lasansky from circa 1990. A portrait of the Apache leader who fought against Mexico in the historic Apache wars. Signed in lower r...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Blue Rabbit
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, watercolour, crayon & pencils on marouflaged paper with wooden panel & signed on reverse
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil, Wood Panel
Purple Nurple - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of a Purple-Colored Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Tako print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
The Boy at the Sea - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the sea is an original drawing on pencil and pastel realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
In the foregroun...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
"Thicket" 2025 oil on Yupo paper 38 x 25 in.
Located in New York, NY
Tess Michalik
Thicket, 2025
oil on Yupo paper
38 x 25 in.
(mic030)
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Daylily - Blue Yellow Abstract Floral Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Powder Coating, Watercolor
Fallen Logs - Forest Landscape Black Sumi Ink White Mylar, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in black sumi ink on Mylar, a peaceful forest scene is intricately detailed, beautifully capturing the serenity of a walk in the woods.
This ink drawi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Sumi Ink
Ocean Piece: unique drawings of studies for ocean painting (hand signed)
Located in New York, NY
Jennifer Losch Bartlett
Ocean piece: Untitled painting studies, 1975
Ink and pastel, mixed media on graph paper
Boldly signed and dated "Summer 75" by Jennifer Bartlett on the lower right front
Frame included: held in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass
Ink and pastel on graph paper drawing.
Boldly signed and dated "Summer 75" by Jennifer Bartlett on the lower right front.
Some of the artist's annotations on the drawings say:
Ocean piece
Sky Water Beach Sometimes looking from water
maybe see mountain
two people on beach lying down
sometimes they face each other
... bwhitefree hand drawing
from water beach w/ towel
sky sand water on a diagonal
on a curve
sky water sand...
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Graphite
In the Mirror - original female nude by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"In the Mirror", nude, sepia red on paper.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio.
Drawing in mat, for display purposes!
1s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Archival Paper
Don't wake up the princess - XX Century, Mixed Media Figurative Painting, Nude
Located in Warsaw, PL
Gabryela Wasowicz is a Polish painter born in 1947. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam. Once she graduated in 197...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
Black Mirror - Japanese Style Gyotaku Fish Painting on Mulberry Paper Framed
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a Gyotaku method painting of two fish on a mulberry paper background. This fish impression using minimal color is akin to a fossil. The mulberry paper has a soft hue and slightly wavy texture adding the overall feel of the artwork. The artwork is framed and matted. The framed dimensions are 25 x 36.5 inches.
Gyotaku - A Japanese word translated from "gyo" meaning fish and "taku" meaning stone impression. It is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, a practice which dates back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing was used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an art form of its own. Gyotaku is a Japanese method of printmaking that traditionally utilizes fish, sea creatures or similar subjects as printing "plates" in its process. The literal translation of the word is "fish stone rubbing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper
Surrealist Painting Royal College Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Rodeo Orange Blue
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Cholly (Portrait of Man in Mixed Media and Collage with Floral Theme by Ransome)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Cholly" — small portrait of man in mixed media and collage with floral theme in pink, yellow and green
2023
graphite, acrylic and collage on panel
8 x 8 x 2 inches, unframed
Piece c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Aprender a caminar y salir del pozo gravitacional, Triptych.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An everyday situation, from our memory, from the memory of childhood in a non-place, that is to say, an enigmatic ephemeral place, a space that is delimited and that grows, that mult...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Untitled 05 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
Located in Salzburg, AT
The painting is framed behind glass.
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Poland (Glider) (Illustration of Glacial Landscape Around Vintage Stamp, Pencil)
Located in Hudson, NY
Poland (Glider) by Andrea Moreau
colored pencil and postage stamp on paper
22 x 30 inches
25.25 x 32.5 inches framed
To create her mixed-media artworks, Andrea Moreau selects a postage stamp to serve as the starting point for a piece on paper, then “completes” the image with colored pencil. This artwork, "Poland (Glider)," centers on a stamp that depicts an aircraft flying above a glacial horizon. Building on the style and environment established by the stamp art, Moreau extended this scene across land and sea in vibrant blue pencil.
A statement by the artist:
My drawings function as personal interpretations of political or commercial propaganda. I begin with imagery found on postage stamps or printed advertisements and, using the visual logic and graphic language of the image, I attempt to tease out a larger framework from which to consider it. Finished pieces often incorporate printed matter and cultural detritus, which gives them an immediate and tactile connection to the world of objects.
I am particularly interested in the postage stamp as a geographical artifact, and through my drawing process I attempt to learn something about a place by studying its official imagery and then creating a world beyond the borders of its fragmentary scenes. The finished drawings and paintings are a record of this study; they are a dialogue between the printed and the drawn, the official and the personal, the real and the imaginary. They are a metaphor for the way in which we conjure the places we hear about on the news and read about in books, using the tiniest pieces of information to construct a reality that most likely bears little resemblance to any actual place.
Andrea Moreau’s mixed-media works, on the other hand, walk a tightrope between context and isolation. Moreau selects a postage stamp to serve as the starting point for a piece on paper, then “completes” the image with colored pencil. These stamps may become lost in a frenzy of Moreau’s mark-making, as with “Mexico (Flowers) #15,” or left comically obvious, like in “USA (Barbershop...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Black Rabbit
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, watercolor, crayon on paper + frame
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involved...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
The Offer - Drawing by Roberto Cuccaro - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
The Offer is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 21st Century by Roberto Cuccaro.
Original Gouache on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower left corner: Cuccaro.
Total dim...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Abstraction #56' - abstract painting - colorful oil on linen
By Eilis Crean
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Abstraction #56" is a colorful abstract painting featuring hues of blue, mauve, green and red. The framed dimensions are 11 by 13 inches.
Eilis Crean is inspired by the works of Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Evie Hone, Patrick Pye, Milton Avery, William Kentridge, Joan Snyder, Jennifer Bartlett, Judy Pfaff and Sarah Sze...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Adélaide
Located in Chicago, IL
Working with a palette of graphite, charcoal, ink, and gold leaf, Alessandra Maria masterfully weaves together elements of the earthly and ethereal. She is part sorceress, part alche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Ballerina 2 - tempera on paper - by Paula Craioveanu - original art
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Ballerina 2 - original
Part of my Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio. Shipping anywher...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Untitled (Standing Nude with Fist)
Located in New York, NY
James Childs (1945-2020)
1975
Inscribed, l.l.
Graphite on paper
28 x 17.75 inches
$3,125
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
CENTAUR and NYMPH Neo Mythology ink by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Centaur and Nymph". Part of "NeoMythology" series. Original work on colored paper.
Size is 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm . Shipped rolled in a tube. Comes with a certificate of authenticity...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Ink
Jean Michel Basquiat Portrait. From the Series Maestros
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the Series Maestro Jean Michel Basquiat, 2017
Watercolor, pencil on paper
Size: 50 H x 45 W cm
framed size 70 H x 62 W x 4 D cm
Unique
Wood frame
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Emerson Cáceres, artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pencil
Stillness- 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing of a rabbit in the field
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni
Stillness
50 x 41 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass)
Measurement with included frame: 57 x 65 cm
Italian artist Rosanna Gadd...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Handmade Paper
"Puppet Show" By Dustin Panzino, Original Procreate Drawing Printed on Metal
Located in Denver, CO
"Puppet Show" (2024) By Dustin Panzino is a beautiful digital painting created in Procreate, which details a fantasy scene of an almost magical puppet show trolley, pulled along by a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Metal
Duchándome May 28th. Watercolor and ink on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Duchándome May 28th, by Celso Castro-Daza
From the Duchándome Series
Watercolor and ink on paper
Image size: 19.5 in. H x 13.75 in. W
Unframed
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
The Headless Soldier - Orange, Paper, Contemporary Art, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Headless Soldier, 2022
collage, tempera, spray on paper
50 H x 35 W cm
Signed on right side down
Raluca Arnăutu dreams the world through collages. A collage, dreamlike and surreal, populated by thousands of pieces of paper, textiles, pieces of plastic, found or made objects, which intertwine on the paper support and as in a well-controlled and thought puzzle give birth to a new universe.
The new series of collages...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Spray Paint, Tempera
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