It’s Tues­day, and another install­ment of Time Travel Tues­day with Rebecca of Big Things! Today we take a look at Pochoir: Pochoir was a tech­nique of color illus­tra­tion that orig­i­nated in China, was employed in Japan­ese prints in the 19th cen­tury, and was used widely in pub­li­ca­tions in 1920s Paris. The beau­ti­ful, richly col­ored plates ...

Ali­son Wor­man is in her last year at MICA, work­ing in Fibers with a con­cen­tra­tion in Book Arts. I really enjoy her recent book that she’s made, with illus­tra­tions using gouache. They include die cuts, my favorite! While one could get weirded out by the head­less peo­ple, her paint­ings are super charm­ing and far enough ...

No poster, by Ariel Braver­man, has bet­ter described the start of this day: In addi­tion to this clever (and truth­ful poster), Ariel is a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary artist fresh out of grad school. Her the­sis exhi­bi­tion is a series of 6 draw­ings using pen, ink, and gouache. She writes about the con­cept behind her work: My work deals with ...

Beau­ti­ful, beau­ti­ful detail in the illus­tra­tions painted by Becca Stadt­lander. Work­ing with gouache and other water-based media, she cre­ates illus­tra­tions that are styl­ized and sophisticated. I get a very roman­tic feel­ing for Becca’s work, as well as a focus on the past or old world. That jux­ta­po­si­tion is par­tially the draw of her work. The ...

Jes­salyn Aaland’s work was brought atten­tion to me by Rebecca, and I’m so glad. Jessalyn’s work is so painstak­ingly assem­bled, with a mix­ture of odd­ity and famil­iar­ity that I wanted to know more! And she was very (kindly) forth­com­ing. Read below what Jes­salyn has to say: All of the work I do is by hand (noth­ing ...

I am sorry for the delayed post today! My brain is cur­rently work­ing at half capac­ity, as I am suf­fer­ing from a nasty sinus infec­tion. Have you ever popped your ear and it’s made your jaw ache? I have, last night. Not fun. Enough with my whin­ing. Onward! Amanda Gehin describes her­self a fan­tasy archi­tec­ture engi­neer ...

Nicholas Stevenson’s work includes two things that I love. One, gouache. It is a medium is some­thing that I never fully under­stood how to manip­u­late, so I always like to see the chalk­i­ness of gouache exposed on paper. Nicholas’s work also fea­tures mys­ti­cal char­ac­ters and with exag­ger­a­tion on form and empha­sis on blocky shapes. I ...

My friend and fel­low artist Amanda turned me on to the work of Adam Weir. Using gouache and water­color, he paints dis­jointed envi­ron­ments. His statement: Through works on paper, I explore ideas of dis­place­ment, con­sump­tion, and the envi­ron­ments in which we live. By com­bin­ing every­day expe­ri­ence, nos­tal­gia, and urban visual cues I cre­ate absurd con­struc­tions ...

Justin Richel is an artist work­ing in Maine, cre­at­ing styl­ized gouache paint­ings. A series that he has recently been work­ing on is titled Big Wigs, which fea­tures regal men don­ning wigs burst­ing with marine and plant life. Justin writes a bit about the series: Osten­ta­tious men with wigs that nearly top­ple, bil­low and swirl, like plumage ...

The expres­sive nature of Julie Torres’s work is beau­ti­ful. It con­jures feel­ings of regret and dis­may, espe­cially in her no-holds bar use of color saturation. My favorite parts of Julie’s work is her will­ing­ness to layer col­ors, employ­ing wet-on-wet tech­niques. It could make her work look muddy, but she’s able to con­trol her media and ...