Watercolors hide a certain beauty and softness, and carry a touch of delicate feminine quality. The medium tends to spread and dry easily and the various hues that can be depicted with it come across with a great sense of simplicity.
Many leading Indian contemporary artists are renowned for their command over painting in watercolor, not easy to handle and master. Prominent among them are Akbar Padamsee, Lalitha Lajmi, Shruti Nelson, Jehangir Jani , Subhash Awchat, Laxman Shreshtha, Prabhkar Kolte, Papri Bose. These are some of the artists who explore the versatile and rewarding medium of watercolours.
Even though watercolor is a well-established medium, it does not always get its due. Spontaneity, layers, surprises are keys to successful employment of watercolors. In fact, the major difference between usage of oils and watercolors is that an artist cannot afford to make any mistakes while working in the latter.
Akbar Padamsee elaborates in one of his statements on joys of watercolor: “The first stroke creates two spaces, the second four; the third creates eight spaces, with each stroke the spaces expand exponentially. At a certain point of infrastructural complexity, the reverse process begins, silencing the manifested structures in order to release the single unique form which can finally be named, the thought process starts once again, and the ‘void’ is filled with voices."
Late Shyamal Dutta Ray is known as an artist to have added a depth and intensity to the medium of watercolors when the Bengal school of Art traditionally used light and watery colors. For Prabhkar Kolte, the medium is akin to “an extension of my inner being”.
Lalitha Lajmi and Papri Bose also love the medium for its yielding and sensitive quality that imparts greater transparency. Samir Mondal and Prashant Prabhu too are known for their watercolors. Julius Macwan’s watercolor paintings have a lovely abstract quality to them.
Many leading Indian contemporary artists are renowned for their command over painting in watercolor, not easy to handle and master. Prominent among them are Akbar Padamsee, Lalitha Lajmi, Shruti Nelson, Jehangir Jani , Subhash Awchat, Laxman Shreshtha, Prabhkar Kolte, Papri Bose. These are some of the artists who explore the versatile and rewarding medium of watercolours.
Even though watercolor is a well-established medium, it does not always get its due. Spontaneity, layers, surprises are keys to successful employment of watercolors. In fact, the major difference between usage of oils and watercolors is that an artist cannot afford to make any mistakes while working in the latter.
Akbar Padamsee elaborates in one of his statements on joys of watercolor: “The first stroke creates two spaces, the second four; the third creates eight spaces, with each stroke the spaces expand exponentially. At a certain point of infrastructural complexity, the reverse process begins, silencing the manifested structures in order to release the single unique form which can finally be named, the thought process starts once again, and the ‘void’ is filled with voices."
Late Shyamal Dutta Ray is known as an artist to have added a depth and intensity to the medium of watercolors when the Bengal school of Art traditionally used light and watery colors. For Prabhkar Kolte, the medium is akin to “an extension of my inner being”.
Lalitha Lajmi and Papri Bose also love the medium for its yielding and sensitive quality that imparts greater transparency. Samir Mondal and Prashant Prabhu too are known for their watercolors. Julius Macwan’s watercolor paintings have a lovely abstract quality to them.
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