Paul Brent is a Florida artist whose work is known worldwide. His paintings in watercolor and oil have deftly portrayed the many aspects of the area capturing the innate beauty on paper and canvas. His best known for his idyllic watercolors of coastal life and is often referred to as America’s best known coastal artist. His work has shown constant progression and change throughout his career. The first pieces of art work that he sold in 1976 were pen and ink drawings of coastal wildlife that he tinted with light washes of watercolor on illustration board and later 300lb watercolor paper. By 1978 he had eliminated using pen and ink and was doing more detailed and volumetric paintings of the same subjects in nature. His paintings still used the white paper for much of the background.
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