The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions ...

Take one look at Tori Nelson’s Instagram page, and one thing is abundantly clear: Her work is special. The St. Louis-based artist paints custom watercolor portraits for everything under the sun, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - While cleaning out her mother's home after she died in 2013, Tara Moorman opened an old trunk to find a collection of family photos dating to the late 1800s. Moorman, a watercolor ...

Before photography was around to detail the natural world, there were watercolor paintings. A recently launched database has digitized 80,000 (and counting) works painted during the medium’s heyday, ...

Bernadette Gockowski works on a watercolor painting of Mother Henriette Delille May 3, 2019, at her home in St. Paul, Minn. Delille lived in New Orleans in the 1800s and founded the Sisters of the ...

Barbara Prey's watercolor is a depiction of MASS MoCA's newest wing, which once served as a textile mill. Barbara Prey Studio Watercolors are among the least forgiving mediums for artists to work with ...

She started in secret. And it took seven years to finish. Mary Whyte crisscrossed the United States in search of veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. The artist had in mind something big. “I will go to ...