Rachel B. Collins

Watercolor Artist

"God is the most subtle of designers. The artist works to bring something of the excitement of this design and form in the  natural world to the attention of all viewers, so that our vision of even the mundane may be changed. I paint in transparent watercolor because of the medium's versatility, and because of the active interplay among the colors, the water, the painting surface, and my visual ideas."

Learn here of the artistic approach and work of Rachel B. Collins of Mount Vernon, Virginia -- watercolorist, scientific illustrator and teacher.

Pictured above:
Left-- A Study in Scarlet, watercolor, 17"x28", 2008
Center-- Vertebra in Gold and Blue, watercolor, 28"x21", 2008
Right-- Rose Backlit IV, watercolor, 11"x21", 2008 

All artwork on this site © Rachel B. Collins and may not be copied without written permission from the artist.
Scans approximate the colors of the original work but do not substitute for viewing the original.

Vertebral Variations: A Series of Watercolor Paintings describes Rachel Collins's close-up studies of vertebrae from deer, cows and bison.

This page was last updated on 12/25/08.