Watercolors by Amanda Amend
by Amanda Amend
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The famous windmills that Don Quixote jousted with are just outside Toledo, Spain, in the village of Consuegra. I visited them while touring study... more
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The famous windmills that Don Quixote jousted with are just outside Toledo, Spain, in the village of Consuegra. I visited them while touring study abroad for our Spanish students at Saint Michael's College. In a sense that trip feels like a lifetime ago, but in another sense, I feel like I am there, now, as I look at this painting. I can feel the sun and smell the wind. These are massive structures, as you can tell by the door height. It's easy to imagine how the fictional but in many ways real Don Quixote thought they were monsters.
Amanda Amend captures the mystery behind the everyday in luminous watercolor. Often described as atmospheric and ethereal, the subtle qualities of her work are balanced by a powerful, disciplined use of color, values, and compositional choices that reflect unique perspectives. The artist recently discovered her passion for watercolor, and she is largely self-taught. Her educational background is in music and linguistics rather than in studio arts, however those disciplines have given her the analytical and practice-oriented frameworks from which to master watercolor's difficult techniques. Further, the structures of language and music provide a conceptual basis for understanding visual composition, and these careers have taken her...
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