Anders Zorn(1860-1920) was a great artist from Sweden known for his mastery of watercolors and portraits in oil including United States presidents. He painted President William Taft and was a contemporary of John Singer Sargent.
This watercolor I did was inspired by a Anders Zorn watercolor, Sea Study, 1894. It was a small study 5" x 7-7/8". Zorn seemed to use a limited palette with a direct painting technique which caught my attention. I don't know his actual palette so I tried to replicate his colors.
For the sky I used ultramarine blue/raw sienna/paynes gray. And for the water I used ivory black and paynes' gray. I did my watercolor in one quick passage which I suspect Zorn may have done as well.
I saw Zorn's watercolor study in a book I purchased years ago titled: Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter.
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