Word: watercolor
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...pistol's new place of residence is in the small study next to the Oval Office where Bush takes select visitors after pointing out better-known White House pieces like the busts of Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower and a watercolor called A Charge to Keep, which gets its name from a Methodist hymn. The study--the one where Bill Clinton held some of his infamous trysts with White House intern Monica Lewinsky--has become a place where Bush keeps the memorabilia that hold special significance for him. Another of the room's mementos: a photograph of special-forces...
...many ways, Christina was a step ahead of me. She, not I, was the true creative force behind our fantastical endeavors. I wanted to dress up as Greek gods, but she wanted to wage the Trojan War with our dolls, still wet with Tempera paint. I wanted to do watercolor, she wanted to recreate a Julian Schnabel painting with her mother’s good plates. Christina’s boundless imagination led us both forward...
...business. “He brought a couple of antiques in one day and it just started to catch on,” Dwyer says. Cases of antique jewelry and shelves of old books line the walls, in addition to many other interesting items, including a Japanese watercolor and Highlights of Our 25th Reunion, the Harvard College Class...
...sketches in ink, pencil and watercolor reveal the artist’s working process. Condo says they’re for the students for his intermediate painting course next semester...
...four sides of the frame. Steamboat and Sailboats, Toward Evening and the abstract Polyphony are exercises in Klee's dreamlike version of pointillism, with light and shadow played out in multicolored dots. But 1933 brings an abrupt, definitive change in subject matter and style. The pale, thickly painted watercolor-and- plaster Head of a Martyr fills its small frame with downcast eyes and a battered, gap-toothed mouth. The circular face of Marked Man (1935), painted in scratchy russets and browns, is a target scarred with black crosshairs. In 1936, Klee returned to his Bauhaus preoccupation with constructing colored forms...