A Splash of Colour

So inspired to try painting in the style of Leonid Afremov, just for fun (if I get the time) :). I just love the way Afremov uses a palette knife to create an kinda impressionist style but with all these splashes of vibrant colour! It's so effortless and it really works! I especially love how he brilliantly paints the reflections in the water in cityscapes and rainy streets. And by 'brilliantly', I mean in all senses of the word - brilliant as in 'shining and full of light' (he really makes the water glitter!) as well as 'magnificent, superb'.

PC: Boris Afremov
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonid_Afremov_with_his_painting_Venice_Grand_Canal_2009.jpg

Other artists' works I'm enjoying at the moment include (but not limited to)…Claude Lorrain's landscapes, Donald Zolan's paintings of children, Vie Dunn-Harr's flower paintings, Thomas Kinkade's Disney and landscape works, all Daniel Gerhartz' paintings!!, Todd Williams' fine art, Vladimir Volegov's portraits…

Most of these are Western-style paintings, but that doesn't mean I don't also LOVE Chinese and Japanese ink wash and watercolour! もちろん、中国や日本の美術も大好きですね。（でも、現代美術がすきじゃないですよ。）I think I like watercolour in general. I might do a bit of watercolour painting too sometime soon...