Watercolor, Acrylic or Oil: What is the Difference?

People often are often asking: what’s the “best” or “most popular” type of paint to use? The answer of this question is that, the “best” paint paint to use depends on the skill and patience of the painter and the “look” he desires to achieve.

New York-based painter, Chayim Shvarzblat explains what medium he prefers to use in his paintings and why. Keep on reading.

Chayim Shvarzblat Stylistic Expression

What topics do you address in your work? Describe some real situation that inspired you?

Chayim Shvarzblat: For the most part I'm not dealing with a topic in the work for now, all in all, I've just done a couple of works that actually cover some of the topic. One real situation that inspired me to work was to paint the Holy Trinity Square in the atmosphere of nightlife. As I used to have an atelier in Paris, every time I would come home from the studio at night on the weekends, I would have to go through a crowd of drunk people, of different subcultures, most of them listening to music. As the Fortress in Paris is the oldest part of the city, rich in cultural values, so I wanted to portray the decadence, the contrast of "cultural" and "non-cultural", and to emphasize all this big-city spirit to paint different motives of human weakness.

What is Watercolor Painting

Introduction

Simply, watercolor is a compound that paints and uses water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque.

Here, experienced watercolor painter Chayim Shvarzblat, will explain more in dept what watercolor painting is and when it originated.

Chayim Shvarzblat Plays with the Visible and the Invisible

Another exhibition, another challenge to write. ”I thought as I headed toward the Journal Gallery one rainy evening. It is always exciting to see what artists are dealing with, what problems they are opening, what they want to point out to their works and, ultimately, what kind of message they want to convey to the audience with their exhibition, which functions as a medium in contemporary society. Thinking about the future text of the Fog exhibition featuring watercolor artist Chayim Shvarzblat, I decided to use his strategy of highlighting the process of emerging artwork to draw a parallel with the way the text was thought, and use it here as an opening line.

What is Naïve Art?

“I admit that this question is always embarrassing. Not because there is no exact definition, but rather because there is a lot to say about this apparently innocuous question,” says the painter Chayim Shvarzblat, “Simply put, let's say that Naïve Art is an art in itself, made by men, but more often by women with completely different backgrounds. They are trying to express the "slices of life" without necessarily learning painting techniques. That is why it is often said that they are self-taught”.

But, as Chayim Shvarzblat further explains, these "Sunday painters" learn quickly because they work a lot. They end up acquiring a good technique that is very empirical but very certain. Some of them make gross mistakes, but give a unique personal stamp that can be also sought after and appreciated by art lovers. So, after many years, some of them become professionals.

Chayim Shvarzblat: Tips on Mastering the Basic Watercolor Techniques

Watercolor is a tricky medium to master. It can be intimidating for beginners, and even some experienced artists find it challenging. In fact, throughout the years working in the medium, Lakewood, New Jersey-based artist Chayim Shvarzblat has met many talented painters who have a hard time switching over to watercolor because it just works so differently.