Word: watercolor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
...action. In anticipation of the festivities, Sony Classical has been releasing over the past year what it modestly bills as the Royal Edition of Bernstein's recordings -- a 119-disc set drawn from the old Columbia and CBS catalogs. Each CD cover is royally adorned with an original watercolor executed by none other than Britain's Prince Charles...
...influence of architectural drawing methods is evident in Shefelman's illustrations. His works are sharp ink drawings combined with watercolor painting. Shefelman has found that he had to adapt his style for children's book illustrations. For example, although he was accustomed to drawing architectural renderings on a large scale, he had to create small paintings for Victoria House. Also, after he took a painting class at the Laguna-Gloria Museum in his hometown of Austin, Texas, Shefelman began to determine form in his works more by color than by line, as he had been trained...
...hotel, for $5 to $10 apiece. From a distance, the paintings are elaborate, detailed depictions of the Chateau Frontenac. Up close, they are xereoxed pieces of paper marked with black-and-white ink sketches of the hotel. Like pages from coloring books, their spaces are filled with watercolor paint. The "artists" must not use small-enough brushes--the don't always stay in the lines...
...took a sabbatical. "It was a time of emptying," he says. "I had to hear my inner music." He produced a series of watercolor nudes in the style of Picasso. He also read feminist literature and decided that patriarchal society was rooted in violence. The process did not produce inner peace. He separated from Debi, entered therapy and moved to Vancouver, hub of Canada's counterculture. "My life as I knew it had come undone," he says quietly. "Singing for children was out of the question...