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Todd Anderson
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New England based Watercolorist.
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Closing Time. Butcher Shop, The Hague. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a butcher shop in the Duinoord section of The Hague, Netherlands. As evening sets in, a blue tinge covers a blocky apartment building with a ground level butcher shop. Warm yellows and oranges emanate from the interior of the shop and are reflected in the wet street of the foreground. The large storefront window sits below a dark canopy with a set of windows on the second floor, reflecting back the close of the day.
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Evening on Parliament Street, London. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16",140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of large buildings along Parliament Street during the evening in London, England. Bright orange interior lighting from an establishment spills out into the cold street and mixes with exterior lighting from lampposts casting yellow light and alternating warm and cool shadows along the buildings. In the upper right is a cool blue evening sky hanging above the city.
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Dusk on Loppemstraat, Bruges. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a side street off Oude Burg in Bruges, Belgium. A dusk sky in cool blue-purple is suspended above a cobbled stoned alley lit by bright yellow street lamps lining the buildings on the right. The light is cast against the facades lining the street and falling lightly on a parked car sitting cozily on the sidewalk. The building in the background has an arched garage below a set of windows.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Incredibly honored to have see my watercolor painting "Abtkerk Along Scheveningenseweg" for the New England Watercolor Society Region Exhibition starting tomorrow at The Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA until January 9th!

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November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Sundown on Via Carbonari, Cefalù. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

I remember being bummed on the train that we couldn't get to Cefalù, Sicily earlier in the day... but then we were greeted with this.

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Watercolor painting of a sunset along the side street of Via Carbonari in Cefalù, Sicily. A bright orange-yellow sun is just barely overhead of white buildings in blue shade, and carving away details of a tall apartment building on the right. To the left is another apartment building in dark sienna and ochre shadows. Both buildings line a cobbled street reflecting back the bright sun and swathed in cool blue shades. A bright blue sky hangs above creeping down a center keyhole and playing hide and seek between wires and laundry lines.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Apartments on Kepplerstraat, Den Haag. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of an apartment building along Kepplerstraat in The Hague, Netherlands. A four-story apartment building stumbles door floors from the right. The top story is occupied with dormers and chimneys shutting out an orange tiled roof. The middle two floors are red-orange brick facade with covered window entries in purple shade, aside from a glimmering white, arched window in the lower center. The lower story is white painted brick with long rectangular windows in varying shade from the sunlight coming from the left. In the foreground is the base of the ground floor flooded in shadow and revealing non-descript objects along the sidewalk.
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Sunrise on Calle Cruz de Quirós, Granada. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a sunrise along Calle Cruz de Quirós in Granada, Spain. A clear, bright sun hits the windowless facades of stacked, cement buildings - below a bright blue sky and above a cobbled, winding street drenched in purple shadows. The sunlight covers the buildings in the center of the scene as crooked angles make up apartment buildings climbing to the right in deep morning shadow.
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Cefalú Sunset. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of rooftops in Cefalú, Sicily. The bright orange sun is behind the viewer and casts dark purple shadows along yellow sandstone buildings, clamoring upward in smaller and smaller units with orange and red tile roofs. A cream and orange striped awning drapes a window, hidden, above a balcony on the right. Windows dot the facades and fade to non-descript shapes in the shade.
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Couple more four-value notans from neighborhood walks.

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Two four-value notan marker drawing panels from a single sketchbook page. In the left panel is a dark brick building entering from the left with a white wooden framed entry, darkened building shapes in the background and a segmented cement sidewalk in the foreground. In the right panel is a white clapboard business side facade with several electrical boxes, windows and cable wires swooping to the right. Shadows hug eaves and hide behind structures as the sun hangs in the mid-afternoon sky.
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Output from a demo I gave on Sunday at the Annual meeting of the Vermont Watercolor Society.

Had a wonderful time demonstrating my direct watercolor approach on this 20"x16" piece in front of a great crowd of people and watercolor enthusiasts!

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Watercolor painting of buildings in downtown St Albans, Vermont. On the left stands an imposing, red brick building with large Arches windows - the right-most window dissolved of shape as it reflects the bright sun back from behind the viewer. To the right is a shorter building in white-painted brick, with a slight red brick facade encasing a street-level window. The bright blue sky above dips I'm between the buildings, revealing a darkened side street. The large building on the left as a street level storefront beneath a grey canopy covering its windows in shadows.
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Garage in Hubbard Corner. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a garage along Ethan Allen Hwy, in Vermont. A multi-level house in gray clapboard stands to the right, with a large wooden business sign above a single level attachment for business. The house has a steep, slate roof with a chimney lining its side to the right and rising in the center of the scene. A single left garage takes up the horizontal band of the right side, with an open cavity - the inside in warm shadows of various wood pallets piled up. A truck sits parked in front to the right. angular, cool blue and purple shadows are cast from a sun on the left, out of view, and within a bright blue sky, hung above that garage and house.
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Grindelwald, Switzerland. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of the town of Grindelwald, Switzerland covered in dark purple shadows at the base of Wetterhorn rising above in snowy covered crags, drenched in sunlight below a bright blue sky. To the right, another mountain reflects back the warmth of orange sunlight, as the town and forest rest below
October 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Palermo Flower Stall. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a flower stall along Via Cipressi in Palermo, Sicily. A large, imposing building in bright ochre stucco fills the scene as a backdrop to a small flower stand with a turquoise canopy covering pots and patrons in dark shadow. To large, Arches windows reside on the upper floor separated from the ground level by a large, horizontal band of purple shadows, wending in and out of recessed columns.
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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A couple more four-value notans. Typically when I start to get more compartmentalized and detail oriented I know it is a sign to stop and start getting into trouble with watercolor again 😂

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A four value notan drawing in marker of facades along the old town of Scheveningen, The Hague in The Netherlands. Two two-level apartment buildings with ground floor storefronts create a narrow, arches alleyway in the middle of the scene. The two storefronts have large windows, with the left-side store having shades drawn, while the right-side displays housewares, alternating between sunlit objects and those hidden in shade. A large angular shadow travels from the upper left, below the second floor windows, and along the facades to the sidewalk on the right. A four value notan drawing in marker of a corner shop in the Statenkwartier district of The Hague, The Netherlands. A large window unit, cases in thick white trim and covered in sunlight hangs in the center of the scene above a dark door and entryway to a shop along a quiet street. The corner entry has a sunlit facade on its left and a darkened facade in its right. On both facades, along the first floors are large windows with drawn-in canopies.
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Always fun and challenging to return to 4 value notan studies (4th being white of paper). Also revealing what has to be chosen as a connecting shape even though they are different values, but not _that_ different with the limited choices.

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A four value notan drawing in marker of garden side entrance between two towering apartment buildings in The Hague, Netherlands. The strong sunlight coming from behind the viewer eliminates the sidewalk in the foreground and casts the floors of multiple apartment buildings in a block formation of shadow and light. A four value notan drawing in marker of an alley leading to a church in Lagos, Portugal. A white bell tower to a church stands proudly I. The center of the scene, as two level apartments line the alley street leading to it, showed covering both sides with a glimpse of sunlight on the ground before the church.
October 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Gas Station Traffic Cones, Winooski. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a gas station and convenience store in Winooski, Vermont. The pump station overhangs stands on the right covering poles, pumps and traffic cones below in blue-purple shadow cast from a bright sun overhead and out of view. In the background is a brick facade of the convenience store with fliers, buckets and propane bins on the left. Behind the pump in shadow is a well lit interior of the store. The foreground is littered with orange and reflective white traffic cones, in shadow.
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Civil Dusk on Calle Huerto, Granada. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of Calle Huerto alley in Granada, Spain. A light blue civil dusk sky hangs above two intersecting, blocky apartment buildings; the automatic street light attached midway up the right-side apartment building's oblique wall floods the apartment facades with warm yellow-orange light and falling against a wooden entry, window panes and a garage door on the left behind a car in shadows. The light in the scene reveals that this street may soon be covered in darkness soon - except for the sole street lamp - once the sun is completely behind the horizon.
October 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Montpelier Skyline. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of buildings in downtown Montpelier, Vermont. An angular, imposing building on the right has a pastel purple painted brick facade with white sashed windows. In the background are red-brick buildings and a tall chimney. In the foreground, standing in the center is a telephone pole with a white,. cylindrical transformer and electrical lines emanating.
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Piazza Guglielmo II, Monreale, Sicily. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

Sicily.

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Watercolor painting of a building along Via Dante Alighieri in the main piazza of Monreale, Sicily. A large blue-purple shadow runs diagonally from the upper left along a tall orange-ochre building and falls upon the sidewalk and street in the foreground. White canopies cover tables and a ground storefront in shadow with a large sandwich board set out announcing the menu of a cafe. The stepped stories of the building have various tall rectangular windows in varying colors reflecting back the sky, which hangs in bright blue above.
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Blake Roy Barn. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a large barn in rural, central Vermont. A large multistory barn with vertical wood slats occupies the right-side of the scene. Large equipment fans nestle above its ground floor windows and white door entry. To the left is a single floor enclosure with a rusted steel roof catching an angled blue shadow from the larger structure. Behind, a big blue sky hangs above a silo in the background.
September 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Eiger, from Grindelwald. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9",

Hesitant to paint scenes a trip to Switzerland. I stick to urban landscapes in some stage of decay, but - hopefully - with some grace. Something majestic in a much slower decline is tough.

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Watercolor painting of Eiger Mountain in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland. A gray sky hangs behind the mountain, dipping to the right to reveal slight ochres of clouds capturing the sun from the left. The mountain is mostly covered in pure white snow with craggy rocks poking out within the purple shade cast to the right-side of the face. Reddish-brown forest creep up from the bottom of the frame.
September 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Vis & Snacks, Wharf. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press

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Watercolor painting of a fish monger business along the wharf in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. A large, blank white billboard hangs above a one story warehouse. The warehouse is a faded cream white building with a long, rectangular blue canopy extending from the right and casting a sun-filled purple shadow on various signs and a single door entry.
September 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Het Straatje Thoughts. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press

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Watercolor painting of a reconstructed building in homage to Vermeer's Het Straatje painting. The recreated building resides in Madurodam, The Hague, Netherlands. A three story, stepped dwelling occupies the scene, rising to the right with slender chimneys extending upward, out of the frame. The red brick facade has windows on each floor, upper panes reflecting back a blue sky. The ground floor brick is partially covered in white paint, with a tall, slender door in the center and a.recessed entry to a walled garden on the left. A single red shutter hangs off a window on the right.
September 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Canopies on Kranenburgweg. Direct Watercolor. 20"x16", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of an apartment building along Kranenburgweg in the Statenkwartier of The Hague, Netherlands. An ochre brick row apartment has large, orange striped canopies overarching first and second story windows. The windows reflect back a bright blue sky in their lower panes while casting back the striping of the canopies above. The facade protrudes in the center, creating a half-hexagon which positions the flanking canopies at an angle.
August 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Fishmonger Dumpster. Direct Watercolor. 12"x9", 140lb Arches Cold Press.

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Watercolor painting of a fishmonger business in Scheveningen in The Hague, Netherlands. An afternoon sun sets upon a crowd of buildings, casting a large purple shadow on a closed, metal garage door entry of a fishmonger. Before the garage door is a dumpster, angled toward the sun and casting a small shadow against the street and sidewalk. The garage is surrounded by apartment buildings below a bright blue sky.
August 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM