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Limning, as the Elizabethans called it, was done with opaque watercolor on vellum using fine brushes called pencils. In his Art of Limning, Hilliard directed: "The first and chiefest precept which I give is cleanliness, and therefore fittest for gentlemen, that the practicer of limning be precisely pure and cleanly in all his doings . . . take heed of the dandruff of the head shedding from the hair, and of speaking over your work for sparkling, for the least sparkling of spittle will never be helped if it light in the face or any part of the naked...
...light. Mrs. Frank Brunner, of Rockaway Beach, N.Y., who "always liked having original paintings and water-colors in our house," made a habit of dropping in at local auctions every now & then, to pick up a fresh one. Six years ago she had spent $6 on a little watercolor of a farmer trailing home with his scythe at dusk, because she "liked the coloring." It looked very nice in the living room, until a friend of the family happened to suggest she look under the edge of the frame to see if the picture had a signature. It had: Winslow...
...turned to watercolor, was soon turning out at least one a day. Within four years, he was one of the best-selling as well as one of the fastest water-colorists...
Kranz's current work is largely experimental, and covers a variety of watercolor techniques and treatments. "In most of my paintings I try to express mood, emotion, and action rather than a strictly naturalistic approach," he explains...
Kranz' entry, "America's Heart" won the James Evans Memorial prize as the best watercolor of the show at the annual Western New York exhibition in Albright Art Gallery at Buffalo last year. During the summer, he taught fundamentals in art at the Buffalo Art Institute, and held a one-man show there of his work...