Word: watercolor
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...influence of architectural drawing methods is evident in Shefelman's illustrations. His works are sharp ink drawings combined with watercolor painting. Shefelman has found that he had to adapt his style for children's book illustrations. For example, although he was accustomed to drawing architectural renderings on a large scale, he had to create small paintings for Victoria House. Also, after he took a painting class at the Laguna-Gloria Museum in his hometown of Austin, Texas, Shefelman began to determine form in his works more by color than by line, as he had been trained...
...hotel, for $5 to $10 apiece. From a distance, the paintings are elaborate, detailed depictions of the Chateau Frontenac. Up close, they are xereoxed pieces of paper marked with black-and-white ink sketches of the hotel. Like pages from coloring books, their spaces are filled with watercolor paint. The "artists" must not use small-enough brushes--the don't always stay in the lines...
...took a sabbatical. "It was a time of emptying," he says. "I had to hear my inner music." He produced a series of watercolor nudes in the style of Picasso. He also read feminist literature and decided that patriarchal society was rooted in violence. The process did not produce inner peace. He separated from Debi, entered therapy and moved to Vancouver, hub of Canada's counterculture. "My life as I knew it had come undone," he says quietly. "Singing for children was out of the question...
...nostalgic mood yet? If the opening of ABC's Homefront doesn't get you, try CBS's Brooklyn Bridge, a fond look back at growing up in Brooklyn circa 1956. NBC's I'll Fly Away, meanwhile, paints a moodier watercolor of life in a Southern town in the late '50s, just as the civil rights movement was gathering steam. In a medium that is usually more comfortable with the here and now, the timely issue and the hip wisecrack, three of the most ambitious shows of the new season are harking back to the past...
...women crying and sweaters are knit in the memory of spider webs. Yet all the storybook marvels are grounded in a survivor's vinegar wit ("In Nanking, snow is like a high-level official -- doesn't come too often, doesn't stay too long"). And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having to say you're sorry. In traditional China, the old widow recalls, "a woman had no right to be angry...