Word: watercolor
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...Saturday, the church was adorned with dyed banners that Loeb had designed, and one of his watercolor paintings hung in the atrium...
...Hundred Demons is Barry's first book in color, and she makes the most of it: it's a work of art as well as literature, and the pages are gorgeous washes of glowing watercolor. "I really wanted to use every possible square inch," she says. "I wanted it to look like a Fruit Loops and sparkle paint!" Although Barry's drawings are crude, somehow they feel more powerfully real than photographs. "People say I can't draw," Barry remarks. "That's something I hear all the time. It's not that it hurts my feelings...
What "Road to America" excels at is atmosphere. Gorgeously printed in full color on large, nearly nine by twelve, heavy, off-white paper, it looks fantastic. Layers of translucent watercolor seem to have soaked into the paper, achieving one of the most varied and spectacular of palates I've seen in a comicbook. Typical of European comic-making Baru puts his stylized characters into carefully-detailed, realistic settings. While its setting becomes nostalgic, its sense of danger does not. Filled with paranoia, prejudice and terrorism, the time and place have a particular resonance...
This past Monday afternoon, Rosenfeld sits at her desk tearing off pieces of a portobello mushroom, grilled onion and swiss cheese sandwich as she prepares for class. On the wall hangs a watercolor she painted herself...
...always very happy to talk myself out of a job,” the teacher replies. “I could do something else. I could watercolor...