Tag: watercolor

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Alex Heberling

thestoutorialist:

asylum-art:

These Tiny Paintings For Ants Will Make Your Heart Sing

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Artist Lorraine Loots, 29, is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and she makes paintings for ants.

Her series 365 Paintings for Ants started as a side project after Loots took a business course for
artists and decided she didn’t want to pursue that career anymore.

But she still wanted to paint, so she allotted herself an hour a day
to do so. Since the only thing she could finish in that time was a
miniature, the idea spawned.

SORCERY

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Alex Heberling

bobbycaputo:

271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book

In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope.

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