8 Watercolor artist | FEBRUARY 2019
Happenings
/ NEW TO VIEW /
Maria Raczynska
Shooting her videos
from a bird’s-eye view
and captioning her
steps as she works,
Maria Raczynska tailor-
makes her instructional
watercolor videos for
artists to follow along
and learn from her
technique. The videos
are set to music, and
each one includes her
materials and palette.
Raczynska’s preliminary
sketches are often
available for download.
The artist publishes two
new videos each week
and has more than
230,000 subscribers.
See her available
downloads and other
helpful links at
mariamorjane.com.
./Not always appreciated as the com-
plex, richly diverse medium that it
is, watercolor came into its own
during the second half of the 19th
century, when artists primarily
known for their oil paintings
started to develop their skills in
watercolor. h ese artists included
John Singer Sargent, h omas
Moran and John La Farge.
Watercolor even came to be known
as the “American medium” and
spread quickly as it began to catch
on during American modernism.
“Watercolor: An American Medium”
will show more than 35 works in
watercolor that represent the broad
range of styles, subjects and artists.
All of the paintings come from the
Chrysler Museum of Art’s works on
paper collection. WA
./ MUST-SEE SHOW /
Watercolor: An American Medium
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va.
February 21-June 23, 2019Watering Time (1921; watercolor and gouache on paper, mounted to board, 28½ x41)
by Charles Ephraim Burchfi eldCHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART; GIFT OF WALTER P. CHRYSLER, JR.