JOHN COLT, WISCONSIN ARTIST, HAND PTD WATERCOLOR OVER HIS LITHOGRAPH #1

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This is an original 11" x 9" watercolor brushed over his own lithograph, with some pen strokes added and his original signature at the center bottom.  John Colt (
1925-1999)
is a famous painter and college professor at UW Milwaukee, who developed his unique style of painting curious abstracted delicate images of pond life, insects, tiny reptiles and plants.  For his canvases he would paint with the canvas flat on the floor or table, allowing the delicate colors of watercolor paint to gradually settle into the canvas, eliminating brush strokes and causing gentle gradations of dark color to light.  His sketching techniques were subtle, brisk suggestions of subjects, often hard to discern, but usually based on real objects...living things.  This work includes these methods"  1. He created a print (ostensibly a stone lithograph), printed in black ink. 2. He used his pastel delicate palette to wash paint on to the paper, building the suggestions of forms. 3. He added some pen strokes, seen at the bottom where his actual signature, hand written, also
appears.  The subject seems to be a moth or butterfly centered at the middle top, with a tiny garden of plants flanking it, and what might be a giant bloom in pink and yellow below.  The piece is framed in brushed aluminum, ready to hang. Check out my OTHER ITEMS/SELLER STORE.
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