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The Artist
Paul Lyons is a New Zealand artist working in watercolour (or watercolor, if you prefer).
He uses a variety of techniques to achieve
the unusually rich, dark colours and textures that characterise many of
his watercolours, and his art often includes layers of collaged Japanese
rice paper. He has exhibited in various galleries, including the New
Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and his paintings hang in collections
throughout New Zealand and in America and Britain.
Technical Details
All of these paintings are watercolours on full sheet 100% rag (archival
quality) Saunders Waterford or Arches 300gsm paper, unless
otherwise noted. Some are collaged with Japanese rice paper.
The gummed tape used when stretching the sheets is
acidic, so after a painting is finished, the tape is trimmed off to
prevent acid damage. This removes the deckle edge of the
watercolour sheets and and reduces them to about 21" x 29" (50cm x
73cm).
Pigments of unprecedented lightfastness have been developed for the automotive
industry, and leading suppliers of art materials, such as Winsor and
Newton and Horodam Schminke have gladly incorporated them into
their traditional paint ranges. This has revolutionised the colour
stability of watercolour paintings.
This combination of fine art, archival paper, and permanent pigments
deserves proper care - mounting
behind glass, hanging out of direct sunlight, on pH-buffered mounts.
Treated thus, these paintings should be more stable than oil
paintings and should last hundreds of years.
Note that colours displayed by computer monitors are affected by the age
of the monitor, its settings, its technology, and even by the type of computer that's driving it.
Consequently, the colours of the paintings cannot be guaranteed to display completely accurately on your monitor.
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