Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

The Shop - an exterior

Technique


                    The Shop – an exterior, Colby College Museum of Art
The Shop – an exterior, Colby College Museum of Art

This is a large watercolour, and the street scene was painted with considerable variety of brush-strokes, producing areas of wash, varied textures and patterns, and fine, almost calligraphic details. A few touches of body-colour were also used, in the windows and on the children painted over the shop, in the foreground.

Last updated: 11th April 2021 by Margaret