I'm going to try, once a week, to do a post about an artist that I particularly like. This week it's going to be Mirko Hanak, a Czech illustrator and designer who did a lot of book design. He did a lot of wet-on-wet where he dropped a blob of paint into a wet spot on the paper and let it spread out, and then added details; he also did something called "quash" where you load the brush with paint and smoosh it down on the paper to make a shape, with detail added later.

I don't paint like this at all but I love it so much. Here is a pinterest URL for more of his work:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/valentinashutov/mirko-han%C3%A1k/?autologin=true

and a Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI56LWbNM4c

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