CAO Bei An, a watercolorist featured in Realistic Abstracts by van Aalst
Bei An Cao
Born: 1957
Cao Bei-an was born in 1957 in Shanghai, China. He obtained the graduate of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts in 1984. Later on, Cao Bei-an taught arts, in Shanghai Art and Craft School, Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture Faculty, Shanghai Tongji University and Arts Faculty, Shanghai East China Teachers University. He is a member of the China Industrial Design Association. Cao Bei-an is now a member of the Belgium Royal Artists Association (bio from: https://www.pinterest.com/elikosar/cao-bei-an-belgian-artist/)
Online Resources: Online Books from Archive.org
Archive.org has old watercolor books that you can check out for an hour (and if no one else needs the book, you can simply renew for another hour. If they have multiple copies, you may be able to check out for 14 days. Here are a few examples:
- Ways with watercolor by Kautzky, Theodore, 1896-1953, Publication date 1963
- 136 pages 32 cm
- Outlines fundamental techniques and materials. Provides a graduated series of landscape exercises.
- Introduction -- The color pigments -- Paper for watercolors -- Brushes and other equipment -- Washes and strokes -- The use of accessories -- Tips on painting buildings -- Painting skies and clouds -- Special methods with trees -- Mountains, hills, and rocks -- Reflections on water -- What two pigments can do -- Now let's try three pigments -- With four colors we are rich -- The winter landscape -- Village vistas -- Harbor waterfronts -- Along the beach -- More practice
- Watercolor day by day by Crespo, Michael, 1947- Publication date 1987
- 142 pages : 29 cm
2020 Spring Week 8
YouTube Video Tutorials
- Watercolor Techniques with Judy Rider - Lift Paint to Create Rocks (credit card, tissue)
- Terry Harrison painting rocks in watercolour (credit card, fan brush)
- Watercolor Waves ROUGH Paper Painting Tutorial
- Painting Water in Watercolour - Crashing Waves (Part 1)
- Painting Water in Watercolour - Crashing Waves (Part 2)
- Without Sketch Landscape Watercolor - Wave (color mixing, Arches) NAMIL ART
April 2020 Online: Lesson 4 -- 4/28/2020: Uffe Boesen
Week 7: Channeling Uffe Boesen
Semi-abstract floral paintings by Uffe Boesen
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Videos
April 2020 Lesson 1: Tuesday April 7
Materials
- My Watercolor materials and setup by Eric Yi Lin of Cafe Watercolor YouTube Channel
- BaoHong 100% Cotton Paper from China via AliExpress (takes about 5 weeks for delivery) as recommended by Eric Yi Lin
- https://youtu.be/HuCcNauXGj8?t=1459
Winter 2020 Week 8: Spontaneous Watercolor Painting ala Nita Engle
YouTube Video Tutorials
- Week 8's lesson is really more about Steve Mitchell's interpretation of Nita Engel's notion of having the watercolor paint itself. His YouTube Channel is 'The Mind of Watercolor'. When he first started doing these kinds of paintings he used several terms to describe his painting that seem to paint themselves: Impromptu, Accidental, Automatic and Spontaneous. He seemed to settle on 'Spontaneous'. Remember: Embrace Failure!!!
- Spontaneous Landscape Watercolor Painting Using Spatter
- Painting a Rocky Watercolor Landscape – Spontaneous Painting
- Winter Woods Spontaneous Paintings – Etchr Post Card Review
- How to Paint a Spontaneous Watercolor Landscape – "Accidental Painting"
- Spontaneous Watercolor Landscape Ft. Renesans
- L'aquarelle Canson Heritage par Serge Di meo - Approche technique
- I Painted This With Drips!!! + Best Month Ever!
- Limited Palette Spontaneous Landscape + Watercolor Board Review
- Nita's Online Demo
- Nita Engle
- One of America’s foremost watercolor artists, Nita Engle’s landscape paintings take the viewer into the scene itself. Nita’s work is inspired from all parts of the world: from Europe and Asia to her home on the south shore of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; from the Dessert plains of Africa to the frozen tundra of Alaska, her paintings bring the world alive. Most of her watercolor techniques have been developed and refined through years of experimentation. Nita says, “The exciting thing about painting in watercolor is that it moves on the paper, unlike oil.”
- Nita Engle passed away on August 29, 2019 at the age of 93 years old.
- Z L Feng
- Growing up in Shanghai, Feng began painting at age seven and never stopped, experimenting with different mediums before choosing his favorite, watercolor. “With watercolor you cannot cover your mistakes, so you must know what you are doing,” he says. He finds inspiration for his lovely landscapes in the countryside of the New River Valley: “Usually I go around - to the river, the forest, the lake – to try and find interesting compositions.”
- Before coming to the U.S. in 1986, Feng received his BFA degree from Shanghai Teacher’s University and taught in its art department for four years. He completed the MFA degree at Radford University in 1989 where he is currently a Professor of Art. In his homeland of China, Feng exhibited his portraits, landscapes, and illustrations in juried exhibitions. Since coming to the U.S., his work has received acclaim throughout the country, garnering more than 300 state, regional, national, and international awards with many “Best in Show” awards and Gold Medal honors in major U.S. watercolor competitions.
Winter 2020 Week 7: Realistic Abstracts and Kees van Aalst
Kees van Aalst
- (24 gorgeous) Landscape Paintings on the Official Website of Kees van Aalst
- Flower Paintings on the official Website of Kees van Aalst
Articles by Kees van Aalst, on his official blog
- Unique Talent
- Wise lessons and other nonsense
- Zen and the art of seeing
- Zen and the Art of Seeing (2)
- lesson 5 COLOR
- Lesson 6 Color
Videos by others
- Watercolour, Xavier Swolfs
- ARE (Aquarelle Reims Evenement) 2013 Eugen Chisnicean
- Watercolor special effects , Blooms, cauliflowers how to control by Umberto Rossini
- ATMOSPHERIC WATERCOLOURS-Painting on Location: David Curtis
- 春崎幹太 水彩画 初級編 kanta harusaki Watercolor
- Mini Demo of Key Watercolor Technique (2)--the Sponge by Bill Polm
- Endre Penovác in Portugal
- Lucienne Nijsters (Belgium)
- Watercolor [Evening sky] kanta harusaki 春崎幹太 水彩画 夕景
- Watercolor kanta harusaki 春崎幹太 水彩画 木漏れ日
- Demo 1: Penovac
- ฟ้อกกี้สีน้ำ (Foggy water color)
- What to Know When Starting Watercolour (2020) by Scott Swinson
- démonstration Victoria Prischedko Biennale Internationale d'aquarelle du Léon 2014
- CAO Bei An à l'atelier et Démonstration Eth de Melaou
- BERTHE
- ARE 2016 - Ilya Ibryaev
- Watercolor demonstration kanta harusaki [Architecture] kofukuji Temple 春崎幹太 水彩画 興福寺 建物
- nature watercolour landscape painting | rainy days | ganesh hire | Watercolour Painting Tutorial
- watercolour landscape painting | himalaya village | Ganesh Hire
- watercolor by Pornchai Lerttamasiri
- Landscape Nature Watercolor painting demonstration 2x speed tutorial by Uffe Boesen
- How to Paint with One Color! / (Monochromatic Studies w/ Watercolors!)
- Advancing with Watercolor: Color Stratagies “Twilight” by Gary Tucker
- Watercolor demonstration 水彩画 海 [Sea] Kanta Harusaki グラニュレーション（粒状化）を使った描き方です。
- ARE (Aquarelle Reims Evenement) 2016 - Serguei Kurbatov
- ARE (Aquarelle Reims Evenement) 2014 Cao Bei An
- Painting Trees in Watercolour
- Watercolor demonstration [Mountain and lake] Kanta Harusaki 春崎幹太 水彩画 山と湖 上高地 大正池の風景
- LooseWatercolours 'Flowers of the Forest' with Andrew Geeson
- 水彩画 Watercolor: kanta harusaki Woods 水の映り込み
- Fredrick Lindmark "Flödig Akvarell"
- Watercolor demonstration 水彩画 青い記憶 [Blue Memory] Kanta Harusaki 春崎幹太 青い空気感の風景を描きました。モデルは上高地 明神池
Articles and paintings by others
- Peter Ward's Book Review of Realist Abstracts by Kees van Aalst
- More Paintings - Mostly Buildings by Peter Ward
- More on Viktoria Prischedko by Peter Ward
- Viktoria Prischedko (and Slawa too) - Wonderful Artists by Peter Ward
- Viktoria Prischedko (official website)
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