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...extended into his dealings with the larger tradition that geography prevented him from joining. He knew the Old Masters only at second hand: reproductions of Bruegel and Bosch, Rembrandt and Tintoretto in the Melbourne Public Library, and in the National Gallery of Victoria some of William Blake's original watercolor illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. All this predisposed him to narrative. Sometimes the stories in his paintings are explicit -- illustrations of the Bible, for instance, into which Boyd (like Blake) injected his own obsessions...
Howe's technique remains fairly constant in all of his works. He paints with acrylics, which he prefers because they respond well to re-working: "Watercolor is like a typewriter; acrylic is like a word-processor." He starts each piece with a gray underpainting on which he builds layers of brighter color--he doesn't use any pigments straight from the tube, preferring instead to mix subtle tones. His darkest shades are made up of reds, blues, and greens; he never uses black in a painting. Howe's brush strokes are, for the most part, controlled, although in some...
Where Are You Going, Manyoni?, by Catherine Stock (Morrow; $15). The pick of a good year: the author, a fine watercolor artist, follows a little Zimbabwean girl as she wakes up at dawn and walks miles through forests and grasslands to her school. Small children can have fun finding Manyoni's tiny figure in a grove of fig trees or waist-deep in riverside grass; older kids can learn to spot the civet cat, the yellow hornbill and the impalas, kudus and wildebeests she passes. The exceptional illustrations treat the vast African landscape with awe and love. Beautifully redrawn cave...
...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
...action. In anticipation of the festivities, Sony Classical has been releasing over the past year what it modestly bills as the Royal Edition of Bernstein's recordings -- a 119-disc set drawn from the old Columbia and CBS catalogs. Each CD cover is royally adorned with an original watercolor executed by none other than Britain's Prince Charles...