Greta Corens Watercolors

This is Day 29. The quintessential idea of NYC, after Alvaro Castagnet. With my Architectural background, I couldn't help but finish the windows that he left in the a'bstract'.

This painting after an unknown artist finalizes the challenge with silence and a fresh breath of clarity. It is the quiet after the storm. While it looks sweet and lovely, it is as exacting to paint as the Soho windows from yesterday while watercolor technique gets you there.

After Chien Chung-Wei – Village Street, Day 28 of
Today I entered the world of nervous architecture — where structure and effervescence coexist in a constant state of motion.�Working after Chien Chung-Wei revealed a new rhythm in my hand: multiple round brushes instead of square one creating blocks, constant dipping into shifting neutrals, and edges that remain alive rather than fixed.

Where my instinct once sought completion and definition, today it accepted vibration, uncertainty, and suspended clarity.�This painting breathes differently. It no longer holds still.
What I learned today:�• Structure can remain while control dissolves�• Light lives inside neutrality�• Movement is not chaos — it is intelligence in motion
This is not imitation.�This is absorption and translation.
Day 28 — turbulence begins to speak.

Day 22 and Day 23

Here, I change gears. The finished painting is not what counts in the process of painting after the Masters. It is what I learn, and how I overcome resistance. Therefore, my drawing as step one and then step two, a painting that tackles the hard part first: details. Here then the watercolor coming into being after the great watercolorist John Pike: A Market in the Sun. We see brilliant flowers and busy shoppers in national dress in the Andean mountains profiled against the background of an immense Cathedral. The cathedral will find its completion tomorrow with techniques so appropriate for watercolors, but I leave you here to paint it inside your mind, because the longing for your eye to complete this painting is already at work.

This Challenge is a watercolor painted after John Singer Sargent's well-known palace in Venice as seen from the waiting gondolas, a viewpoint he cherished. The rich colors and textures and the intricate architecture displayed were a result of several hours swaying on this rented boat, for which he brought his panoply of brushes and a wide range of color pans. He took his work seriously, it wasn't meant to be a sketch, and how many secrets went into this painting is what this painter finds out when copying the Master. The colors came out dark in this image but the sweetest aquas, soft yellows, and translucent cornflower blues can be imagined by the mind of the viewer.

Day 10 | November 10, 2025
Study: “Pacific Castle” after Zoltan Szabó

Today’s explores Zoltan Szabó’s luminous west-coast style—soft mist, strong shapes, and a house rising like a quiet monument above reflective water. His technique balances bold, angular structure with drifting washes, where edges dissolve into atmosphere.

In this study, I focused on capturing the contrast between the crisp planes of the building and the fluid serenity of the water below. Even in a quick sketch, Szabó’s rhythmic simplicity teaches clarity: let light do the work, and let watercolor breathe.

This is Painting 9 in the Challenge. Called 'Red Barn in the Harbor', this watercolor is painted after Master Watercolorist Ferdinand Petrie's painting: 'Morning Harbor', a bucolic scene.

My Watercolor after John Henry Twachtman: Home in Avondale Ohio. Stark contrasts and soft shadows on the snow. This watercolor study in neutrals and values is part of the program

Day 3 of the Challenge based on Gunnar Brusewitz’s ink and wash composition from “Vinterträd” (Winter Trees)—especially his 1970s series of Swedish landscapes.
A study in Nordic restraint: pale sky, sleeping earth, and the quiet rhythm of trunks in snow. Minimal color, maximum silence. Here, nature’s poetry is written in intervals—the pauses between shapes, the gentle hum of contrast. It feels like listening to the earth’s heartbeat beneath a white veil.

Day 2 of . This image is based on the watercolors of Master Anders Zorn. He is a Swedish artist, wellknown for his creation of the Limited Palette, which is based on the use of four colors: Black, White, Yellow Ochre and Red Ochre. From these, he developed 100 colors in a grid that is harmonious. and is still in use today. The details in his work are what distinguishes the master.

An icy pond in a winter landscape. This is a watercolor painted after the Nordic watercolors of Anders Zorn as a Challenge.

. This is a copy of a Master watercolorist Lars Lerin. I will be posting such watercolor paintings every day. These are 'fast sketches that have to be finished within a limited time range and details are falling by the wayside.