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US illustrator Ben Stevens works with pencil, pen, watercolour, and gouache, in the creation of his images.

Joan Quintas Toledo is an Argentinian artist currently based in Madrid, Spain. I love this work, the watercolours may be subtle, but their effect is striking.

Sean McGuill is a Limerick based arts student who hopes to become a painter and printmaker when he graduates.

Ekaterina Kolchenko is a Saint Petersburg based creative who works variously as a watercolour artist, illustrator, interior designer, and architect.

Laura Bernard is a Melbourne based freelance illustrator who has a penchant for painting watercolour pictures of women, many of who sport tattoos.

Singapore based painter Lok Kerk Hwang is an accomplished watercolour artist, with a career spanning two decades. His creative endeavours aren’t restricted to painting though, his photography is also impressive, especially the food-styling images. See more of his work here.

What’s the best way to describe the watercolour paintings of Munich based artist Michael Bajer? Mouthwatering? Or would that be too trite? Whatever, this is work that cannot be faulted. Look at it for yourself, and see what I mean though.

Jacob van Loon is an artist who lives and works in Fort Collins, Colorado, whose work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe. Intricate is one word that comes to mind in describing his geometrically styled watercolour artworks.

More work can be seen on Instagram and Behance.

To me, watercolour paintings are a memento of a simpler, bygone, time. And maybe that’s the way it should be, the technique takes its origins from the Paleolithic age after all. That’s not to say watercolour artworks don’t cut it in today’s world. Far from it.

Dtai Hansathit is a Sydney based watercolour artist, who takes inspiration from cycling, and the city’s older buildings and houses, such as the establishment seen above, a place I’ve been to one or twice before. Many more works can be seen on Instagram.

Melbourne artist Kristy Milliken’s exhibition, “A Life Slowed Down For The Observer”, opens at The National Grid this Friday, 7 May, in Brookvale, Sydney.