Scenery Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

pastel drawing on paper of a lake with trees in brown frame

Artist: Harry George Theaker (English, 1873-1954) Title: "Moors, Yorkshire, UK" *No signature found Circa: 1935 Medium: Original Watercolor on watercolor paper Sheet size: 9.75" x 13.75" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Corsham, UK. "GAC" and "H.G. Theaker" pencil inscribed upper left and center on verso. Biography: Born January-March 1873 in Wolstanton, Staffordshire. He was the son of George Theaker (1835-1902, born in Sheffield, Yorkshire), headmaster (principal) of the School of Art in Burslem from 1869-94 and designer for pottery. His younger brother, Charles Edmund (1875-1903) was an apprentice designer modeller and then a teacher at the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem around 1900. Harry George was an apprentice pottery decorator and then a teacher. He settled in London c.1900-05 and was in charge of design at the Polytechnic in Regent Street from about 1906 onwards, where he also taught courses in 'modelling from design'. Theaker remained at the Polytechnic and is listed in prospectuses as headmaster (principal) between 1931-2 and 1937-38. Theaker was also a successful illustrator, particularly of children's books. His first known published works date from about 1911, and most of his illustrations date from the 1920s and 1930s. Amongst the books he illustrated are 'The Ingoldsby Legends' by Sir Thomas Ingoldsby, London, 1911; 'Children's Stories from 'The Arabian Nights', by Rose Yeatman Woolf, 1914 (and later editions); 'The Adventures of Don Quixote', c.1920 and 1929; 'Gulliver's Travels', 1928; 'The Water Babies', 1930; 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', 1930; 'Stories of King Arthur', 1925 and 'Long, long ago: stories from the classics' both retold by Blanche Winder, the latter probably in the 1930s (see National Art Library catalogue...

I photographed this pleasant scene of people walking their dogs on the beach at Fort DeSoto Park near Tierra Verde, Fl. It was a cool Spring day and the weather was lovely. I’m a d...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''Winter stream'' Size: 14.9" x 22" (38 x 56 c...

My studio painting :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signatur...

Oil on paper - Framed 58.8 x 79 x 3 cm

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...

Artist Commentary: Texas hill country sunset on a warm October evening. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wis...

This painting depicts a well used remote country road in the height winter with intricate tire marks and a strong sense of perspective is prevalent. :: Painting :: Realism :: This p...

Presence of winter ! A winter road in a country setting with strong sense of depth, presence and and distance highlighted by the feel of looking over the hill. A recent viewer of th...

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...

Winter country living at its best. This artwork captures a typical country winter day overlooking a farm on a hill with a house off in the distance on top of the snowy, patterned hil...

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...

Mount Hood is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It was formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific coast and rests in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located about 50 miles (80 km) east-southeast of Portland, on the border between Clackamas and Hood River...

Oil pastel on illustration board

"Storm Watch 2" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Victoria Ryan. The artist signed the piece. This piece features an idyllic farm landscape with ro...

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 painting at the Tbilisi State...

A hidden country ravine with dark shadows and patterns created by the melting snow of late winter. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authent...

This piece focuses in on a winding gravel country road leading to an unknown rural destination amongst the trees and brush. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an offic...

"Twilight on the Beach (Ephraim)" is an original pastel drawing by Michael DeFrancesco. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece depicts two chairs on the beach of a small village in Door County, Wisconsin. Separated only by a row of trees running along the horizon, the sky and lake are mirrors of one another. 22" x 30" art 30" x 37 1/4" frame "As I progress in my painting, I hope to say more with less ... to leave the obvious vague ... and to paint only that which is essential ... this is my goal as an artist." Biography Michael Defrancesco received his Fine Arts degree from the American Academy of Art in Chicago. While at the Academy, he was fortunate to have studied under some wonderful instructors such as Bill Parks, Vern Stake, Eugene Hall, Fred Berger, and the renowned watercolorist Irving Shapiro...

"Canadian Rockies - Misty Morning Calgary, Alberta, Canada" is an original watercolor painting on Kilimanjaro watercolor paper. These petite watercolo...

Titled lower left. Signed lower right: S. Headley Van Campen Susan Van Campen’s plein-air oil paintings are painted with the confident brushwork of a watercolorist, achieving bold i...

Boris Akopian "On the slopes"

Inspired by a hike on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, Glacier National Park. :: Drawing :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :...

Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...

This watercolour is depicting the quiet, calm and serine atmosphere of the early morning time in the country with a hint of the coming sunrise. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece...

Selsley Church, Gloucestershire By Max Panks [2021] original Watercolour on Paper Image size: H:33 cm x W:49 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:36 cm x W:51 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unfr...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: "By the stream" Size: 13.7" x 19.6" (35 x 50 c...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''Snowy'' Size: 16.1" x 23.2" (41 x 59 cm) MA...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''Blinded by the sun'' Size: 14.9" x 22" (38 x...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''Evening in Vyshka'' Size: 14.9" x 22" (38 x ...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''Sunset over the river'' Size: 13.7" x 19.6" ...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''Orange evening'' Size: 14.1" x 18.8" (36 x 4...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''East'' Size: 14.1" x 18.8" (36 x 48 cm) MAT...

Excellent piece of original art. Handmade Signed Painting. Original watercolor painting by Ukrainian artist Maksym Kisilov Title: ''A fantastic evening'' Size: 14.1" x 18.8" (3...

Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hill Country. This granite dome has long been a sacred spot and place of beauty. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate ...

Storm clouds shade some dunes at White Sands New Mexico while sun shines bright on another dune. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentici...

Artist: Gillie Cawthorne (English, 1963-) Title: "River Tyne Between Hexham and Corbridge" *Signed and dated by Cawthorne lower center Year: 1998 Medium: Original Watercolor on paper...

Frederick Donald Blake RI, RMSI 1908–1997 Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk Gouache, signed lower right Image size: 6 x 16¼ inches (15 x 41 cm) Hand made gilt frame

Lost and Found Again It has been a while since I wandered through the Hatert Meres (Hatertse Vennen). In 2014 to be precise. Hatert Meres 09 (2014) was my last pastel of that series...

A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Distant Shade, Knights Ferry, CA" is a watercolor, executed in earthy yellows, browns, blues and greens and depicting a California landscape of rolli...

Oil on linen canvas - Framed 63.8 x 84 x 3.4 cm

Oil on paper - Framed 72 x 102 x 3 cm

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...

As a studio artist I prefer painting realistically with pastel/oil, exploring the complexities of water and the ocean in maritime scenery. “En plein air”, I prefer painting “looser” with oil, focusing on shape, light and mood to capture a scene that reflects my inner experience. I find it necessary to balance the contrast of pastel/oil with studio/outdoor painting...

I love creating textures in my watercolors. This watercolor comes with a white matt to size 14" x 11." Ready to frame in a standard size frame. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece ...

I like painting atmospheric skies. This watercolor comes with a white matt ready to frame. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentici...

-Painted on artist quality acid-free 140 lb. watercolor paper. -Professional quality artists watercolor paints. (Daniel Smith) -Acid-Free paper. -Size: 11" x 14" -Signature on th...

A flowing river in late March with trees and land in the foreground.. All paintings are completed on 140 to 300lb acid free watercolour paper and using the best artist quality water...

Ink on yupo. Unframed

Ink on yupo. Unframed

Nicolino Calyo's career reflects a restless spirit of enterprise and adventure. Descended in the line of the Viscontes di Calyo of Calabria, the artist was the son of a Neapolitan army officer. (For a brief biographical sketch of the artist see Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, exhib. cat. [1976], pp. 299-301 no. 257.) Calyo received formal training in art at the Naples Academy. His career took shape amidst the backdrop of the political turbulence of early nineteenth-century Italy, Spain, and France. He fled Naples after choosing the losing side in struggles of 1820-21, and, by 1829, was part of a community of Italian exiles in Malta. This was the keynote of a peripatetic life that saw the artist travel through Europe, to America, to Europe again, and back to America. Paradoxically, Calyo’s stock-in-trade was close observation of people and places, meticulously rendered in the precise topographical tradition of his fellow countrymen, the eighteenth-century vedute painters Antonio Canale (called Canaletto) and Francesco Guardi. In search of artistic opportunity and in pursuit of a living, Calyo left Malta, and, by 1834, was in Baltimore, Maryland. He advertised his skills in the April 16, 1835 edition of the Baltimore American, offering "remarkable views executed from drawings taken on the spot by himself, . . . in which no pains or any resource of his art has been neglected, to render them accurate in every particular" (as quoted in The Art Gallery and The Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, 350 Years of Art & Architecture in Maryland, exhib. cat. [1984], p. 35). Favoring gouache on paper as his medium, Calyo rendered faithful visual images of familiar locales executed with a degree of skill and polish that was second nature for European academically-trained artists. Indeed, it was the search for this graceful fluency that made American artists eager to travel to Europe and that led American patrons to seek out the works of ambitious newcomers. On June 16, 1835, the Baltimore Republican reported that Calyo was on his way north to Philadelphia and New York to paint views of those cities. Calyo arrived in New York, by way of Philadelphia, just in time for the great fire of December 1835, which destroyed much of the downtown business district. He sketched the fire as it burned, producing a series of gouaches that combined his sophisticated European painting style with the truth and urgency of on-the-spot observation. Two of his images were given broad currency when William James Bennett reproduced them in aquatint. The New-York Historical Society owns two large Calyo gouaches of the fire, and two others, formerly in the Middendorf Collection, are now in the collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries. From 1838 until 1855, Calyo listed himself variously in the New York City directories as a painter, a portrait painter, and as an art instructor, singly, and in partnership with his sons, John (1818-1893) and later, the younger Hannibal (1835-1883). Calyo also attracted notice for a series of scenes and characters from the streets of New York, called Cries of New York. These works, which were later published as prints, participate in a time-honored European genre tradition. Calyo’s New York home became a gathering place for European exiles, including Napoleon III. Between 1847 and 1852 Calyo exhibited scenes from the Mexican War and traveled from Boston to New Orleans with his forty-foot panorama of the Connecticut River. Later, he spent time in Spain as court painter to Queen Maria Christina, the result of his continuing European connections, but he was back in America by 1874, where he remained until his death. The Passaic River rises in the hills just south of Morristown, New Jersey, marking a serpentine eighty-mile course before it empties into Newark Bay. It flows north-northeast to Paterson, where it falls seventy feet in a spectacular cataract before continuing south through Passaic and Newark. William Gerdts, in Painting and Sculpture in New Jersey (1964, pp. 51-2), describes the falls as: the most important [landscape] subject in New Jersey during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. . . . The Passaic Falls remained a popular spot, particularly during the romantic period. Indeed, newspapers, periodicals, and gift books contain many accounts of visits to the Falls, sentimental poems written about them or about a loved one visiting the Falls, or even, occasionally, in memory of one who perished in the waters of the Falls — usually intentionally. . . . Waterfalls . . . were popular among travelers in the period and the Passaic Falls were only surpassed by Niagara Falls and Trenton Falls...

Watercolor on paper Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this ...