One city is one coordinate, two cities are a straight line, and countless cities are a world. Each city has a pact with the seasons, and in the warmth of early spring they slowly awaken and slowly become colorful on the painter's drawing paper. In this issue, let's get close to three contemporary watercolor painters and read the early spring charm of different cities in the transformation of pincheng, pinjing and pinyi.
Salfrazi Mousavi
A world without watercolor is like a body without a soul.
—Sarfraz Musawir
Neon colors.
The gray sky is the background color of the city's waking up. The colorful bricks and tiles are more like the morning sun, flowing between the high and low buildings, engraving the colorful lights and shadows of life.
Sarfraz Musawir is a well-known watercolor painter in Pakistan, famous for depicting natural landscapes and cityscapes. He graduated from Sindh University with a master's degree in physics and later obtained a diploma in painting at the Karachi Art School. Over the years, Mousavi has participated in numerous international art exhibitions and presented his work in the International Watercolor Association. In 1994, he was awarded the first prize of the Sadqueen Prize.
Mousavi is adept at using different neon colors on a white background to depict light and shadow, blending in a soothing and progressive gradient effect, which also makes his work stand out from many watercolors. Mousavi believes that the charm of urban light and shadow lies not only in the style that can be witnessed with his own eyes, but also in how to "take the city for yourself" on the drawing paper.
Epiphanio Serna Martinez
I wanted to build a special space in the paper so that it was as close as possible to a corner of reality.
—Epifanio Serna Martinez
Hee-chi.
The architecture of the city is a footnote to the times, it may be old and mottled, but it carries the peace and tranquility that quiet and elegant people crave. Again and again, the artist who walked through it found his beloved silhouette, and at the same time, he left his own figure in every city where he stopped.
Epifanio Serna Martinez is a famous Swedish painter. He has shown an amazing artistic talent from an early age and has tapped into the artistic potential associated with urban architecture through continuous learning. Martinez loves to travel and has been to many countries, but his favorite is the water city of Venice.
On each trip to Venice, he takes many photographs, which he converts into watercolors in his studio after the trip. Although he is very good at creating external light, for more favorite pictures, he will still take photos and quietly blend them. In 2021, Martinez's new painting exhibition opened in Venice, attracting a large number of watercolor art lovers to stop and admire.
Ilya Ibrayev
The more cloudless it is, the easier it is to see the bright daylight, and the easier it is for me to be attracted to that light.
—Ilya Ibryaev
Mangchen.
Ilya Ibryaev was born in the old town of Novgorod, Russia, and now lives in Moscow. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Cheboksary Art School and later from the Ceramics Department of the Stroganov School in Moscow. Ibrayev is a member of the Union of Russian Artists and has participated in many national and international exhibitions, and his works are mostly collected by museums, galleries and private collectors. In addition, he is a talented craftsman who is good at making exquisite ceramic works of art.
Ibrayev's works are mostly themed on the street scenes of the city in the early morning, and use the "empty" technique in watercolor to depict daylight, and the illusion of movement and perception of light and shadow makes his works have a "semi-realistic sense" that is inseparable from reality.
Ilya Ibryaev
In addition to his daily creations, Ibrayev also offered online courses to explain his painting process step by step. In his spare time, he also hikes through the city and the countryside to absorb nourishment in different landscapes. He believed that without the sun's rays, even the most beautiful scenery would be eclipsed.
Immersed in a city, some people choose to sing the praises of its past, and some people are willing to imagine its future. For artists, the past and the future are somewhat distant, and they are more willing to pick up the paintbrush and outline the present. In the pattern of contemporary watercolor art, many unassuming painters are all over the world, they prefer to use their feet to touch nature, and then use their hands to depict heaven and earth, although the styles are very different and have their own methods, but the watercolor is the same, the original intention is the same.
Watercolor may not be as dignified and gorgeous as oil painting, nor is it as far-reaching as Chinese painting, and it is not as realistic and realistic as a photo. But its beauty lies between flow and change, just like those painters who wander in the intercity wilderness and hurry, looming, but have become paintings.
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