Limited Edition Giclées from Original Veiled Watercolors by Ken Goldman

Veiled watercolor painting is the brushing on of many layers of thin washes, creating a tinted luminosity. This is not to be confused with ordinary watercolor glazing, in which a painting receives thirty or forty glazes. A veil painter such as Ken Goldman applies hundreds of layers. The resulting nuances of light and dark create a depth not ordinarily found in paintings where colors are placed side by side.

In this style, Ken begins with color rather than trying to capture a preconceived form. Unlike other kinds of art, with veil painting, the interest is not what is to be painted, rather how it is to be done. Working with the laws of light, color and darkness, Ken only begins to recognize form toward the end of the process. Then the play of light and dark begins to suggest a form, much as shifting clouds suggest recognizable shapes. In a sense, each painting is a meditation and a surprise, as Ken follows the subtle hints offered by the layers of paint, and merely helps the metamorphosis of color into a rose, an antelope, or maybe a dancing crane.