Los Angeles-based artist Nick Runge paints watercolor portraits of people and human skeletons in a unique style that blends elements of abstraction with hints of realism. Soft edges of layered shapes and blended flesh and bone tones present all the visual information required to see features, without crossing into the realm of photorealism. “I doContinue reading "Gestural Brush Strokes and Focused Color Palettes Form Watercolor Portraits by Nick Runge"

The world is so full of history and mystery, and sometimes the two intertwine in such a way as to be almost beyond belief.A series of watercolor paintings from the 1940s recently resurfaced in Brooklyn, New York, and they are thought to depict shrunken heads.What are shrunken heads? Well, they were made by certain tribes of Maori people in New Zealand, who would preserve the heads of their enemies.

Confidently paint natural-looking and lively small figures in watercolour.