WATERCOLOR

Watercolor is considered the most difficult of all pigmented-media to use; art historically, producing a wide range of practitioners, i.e., Winslow Homer (in terms of realism and naturalism) and William Blake (in terms of imagination and invention). Rodeiro’s watercolor-approach is generally two-fold: 1). “liquidy” wet-washes combined with loose virtuoso painting, as well as 2). using highly-pigmented and precise overlays (“glazes”) of color: fostering an “illustrative” style. Few watercolorists have this full-range of ability, because they either prefer focusing on one method or the other: totally wet or totally exact. In his duo-method, Rodeiro unites the art of Blake and Homer. Notice that his LANDSCAPES & VEDUTE gallery additionally contains several watercolors as well.

José Rodeiro Cleo, the Muse of History, Asleep. 18" x 24," sepia, 2003. (Collection of the artist). (For iconology, refer to the watercolor-hue version)