Photo Realistic Watercolors

06/14/2026

06/13/2026

David Hockney 💙 1937 – 2026

Our thoughts are with the friends and family of David Hockney, one of Britain’s best loved contemporary artists.

Hockney was one of the most internationally respected, renowned, and influential contemporary artists. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1937, Hockney rose to fame in the Pop art movement in the 1960s, and over the next six decades, his work embraced drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and stage design. His inventive visual language took many different stylistic turns from early pen and ink, and coloured pencil drawings to his more recent experiments with watercolour and digital technology. As one of the world’s leading figurative artists, the National Portrait Gallery was privileged to collaborate with Hockney on several occasions, including the major David Hockney Portraits exhibition in 2006, and the recent David Hockney: Drawing from Life in 2020 and 2023. Many of his self-portraits now call our Collection their home, including Self-Portrait with Charlie (2005), currently on display in Room 30.

Portraits and people were central to his exploration of the world and a crucial part of his many creative endeavours, he said: ‘I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.’

📸 David Parry

06/12/2026

Pleased my experimental Watercolor, “Night Flight through the Land of the Dark” garnered a Merit Award!

06/11/2026

Union Pacific connects 23 western U.S. states, providing safe and efficient railroad transportation, freight shipping and logistics.

06/07/2026

Saturday, at an Art Fair I used to exhibit in—“The Old West End” held on the Grounds in front of The Toledo Museum of Art—Two people in the Crowd of People started Shooting at each other—12 people were Shot, 2 of them are in Critical Condition.

I haven’t exhibited in this art fair for a number of years—but know and admire many of the artist’s work that do!! The Fair tomorrow is closed down. I hope everyone is alright and safe!!

"It was a beautiful day" until gunfire erupted, said festival attendee Suzanne Brewer, who described panic and confusion at the event.

05/23/2026

The 1st Annual Black Swamp Arts Council Member’s Exhibit

My humble little experiment Watercolor, Night Flight through the Land of the Dark garnered A Merit Award!

Exhibition Opens—
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Awards Reception—
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 6–8pm.
Exhibition Closes—
Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 5:30pm

Black Swamp Art Center
210 North Defiance Street
Archbold, Ohio 43502

05/23/2026

Excited my has been accepted to the Wassenberg Art Center’s 71st Annual June Art Show, and you're invited to the opening reception on May 28th from 6 PM- 8:30 PM with awards announced at 7 PM.

05/14/2026

My apologies to everyone!! I try to keep my FB Watercolor page Politics free. But my cell phone often arbitrarily called people up on my contact list AFTER I’ve set it on the counter or table.. I’ve heard it begin to dial after while walking away!l

Anyway— seems that things I’ve READ on Instagram are starting to post on my FB Watercolor page. I just caught 4 of them.

Sorry—this is my Artwork Page- not to assault anyone’s Political views.

05/03/2026

“During their trip, both artists will be engaging in a study of the environment, urban life and photography while always on the lookout for new perspectives, a different kind of awareness and novel experiences.”