There are a lot of misconceptions about pochade boxes and what they’re for, so I thought I would write about what I’ve found out over the years centered around the meaning of the word “pochade” in French. introduction A pochade box was designed specifically to do a color oil sketch in the field . The [...]
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Derivation of the word POCHADE
Posted in watercolor pochade boxes on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
watercolor specific pochade box?
Posted in watercolor pochade boxes on October 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The above from a show of caricatures at the Metropolitan Museum called “infinite jest”. Rowlandson and a caricaturists by the name of Henry Wigstead ( probably pictured above) toured Wales in August 1797 and had a miserable time — constant fog and rain, rough roads, poor lodging, spartan food, and wild country folk. They were [...]
absolutely smallest watercolor set
Posted in watercolor pochade boxes, tagged watercolor pochade boxes on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This set is composed of an empty Sucrets box into which I have inserted a small daily plastic pill box with the top off, both of which come from the local drug store. An Altoid box is an equally good container. Into the compartments I squeezed Winsor Newton tube paints. When the box is closed [...]
Japanese waterbrushes and “pochade” boxes
Posted in watercolor, watercolor pochade boxes, tagged japanese waterbrush, watercolor equipment, watercolor pochade boxes on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Above is a picture of two different Japanese waterbrushes leaning on their caps. As the name implies they are filled with water usually enough to do a compete painting. They solve two problems at once. First they hold all the water you will need expect if you want to put down a big wash on [...]
Watercolor pochade box
Posted in watercolor pochade boxes, tagged watercolor pochade boxes on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hi, there are other posts on this topic. here , here, here Green and Stone, an art store in London (Chelsea) in addition to having a wonderful collection of antique watercolor boxes, sell a new beautiful watercolor pochade box that appears to be of “French origin” made of walnut wood. It comes with or [...]
antique “watercolour” boxes and Homer’s tin palettes
Posted in watercolor pochade boxes, Winslow Homer equipment/technique, tagged homer's palette, watercolor equipment, watercolor pochade boxes on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green and Stone (click on the name) in Chelsea, London have pictures of many different kinds of these old watercolor boxes, most of them already sold. They also sell a modern walnut watercolor pochade box with and without pigment. Here’s another type of antique watercolor box Now let us look at Winslow Homer’s watercolor box. [...]
