Randall Imai says:
joseba eskubi's paintings on flickr have to be the most luminous and tactile art on the site. The subjects are mysterious, allusions to vague anatomical shapes and vessels or landscapes of alien atmospheres. But if one looks closely at the surface, it is all brushwork, controlling edges and overlaying filmy colors on solid forms. I have never discerned what he is painting (although he did share some of his fabrication/models) but whenever he posts, I pause and stare.
Randall Imai says:
I came upon asnee's watercolors mostly because of their non-conventional use of color: who uses bright purple to portray shadow? But to me, the real appeal of the painting is freely-applied layers of bright colors creating incredible depth on the surface of the paper. I am also partial to portrayals of streets in sunlight and shadow.
Randall Imai says:
Of all the watercolorists on flickr, dgdraws' work remains the most tightly controlled... to the point where the control itself is the art. This is a very popular sample of his work which persists in showing up regularly in my "recent activity" page because we all are in awe of his mastery of the medium. I myself really like the saturated colors of the brick in the forground contrasted with the washed-out brick elsewhere. And where did he learn to paint parallel lines with such ease?
Randall Imai says:
OCCASIONALLY I scan a group and SOMETIMES I find a treasure like this...... And I include it here mostly because, like Alex Katz, Leigh-Anne takes oil and flattens the subjects, but uses gradations of saturated colors to create a new kind of depth to the painting.
Leigh-Anne Eagerton's submittals to flickr are as yet scant (2 pages). Go see.
Randall Imai says:
I came upon David L. Parker's paintings via a group and immediately recognized his paintings as a type of process which I do not fully understand, but is, I believe the result of a highly-disciplined process of multi-layered painting which relies on (this is my conjecture) transparent glazes over a monochrome foundation.
The result is luminance and contour comparable to joseba.eskubi's (see above), but using a different property of oil paint,
Randall Imai says:
Supmanee Chai has been posting her evocative watercolor paintings that are abstractions of forms she observes in nature, notably fluid lines of botanic shapes that seem, aptly, to be in water. The evolution of these paintings (some of them quite large) has been interesting to observe.... I myself cannot believe the planning steps she must go through to represent these shapes and colors that, in form, create layers upon layers.
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