The hardcover coffee table Splash series has earned a reputation as the leader in showcasing contemporary watercolor. Featuring the premier artists in the country, year after year, artists and art enthusiasts look forward to its big, beautiful images, innovative approaches and insightful commentary. Continuing the tradition, this 12th edition celebrates artistic vision—delivering a stunning diversity of ideas, inspiration, and breathtaking art … in short, everything fans of this series have come to expect, including the wonderfully unexpected. With a special focus on artistic vision, this edition explores how artists seize upon moments of beauty and wonder, inject emotional content and personal interpretation, and translate it all into brilliant, standout paintings.

The Splash series has earned a reputation as one of the premier showcases of contemporary watercolor. Year after year, artists and art enthusiasts look forward to its big, beautiful images, innovative approaches and insightful commentary. Continuing the tradition, this 12th edition celebrates artistic vision—delivering a stunning diversity of ideas, inspiration, and breathtaking art … in short, everything fans of this series have come to expect, including the wonderfully unexpected. With a special focus on artistic vision, this edition explores how artists seize upon moments of beauty and wonder, inject emotional content and personal interpretation, and translate it all into brilliant, standout paintings.

The hardcover coffee table Splash series has earned a reputation as the leader in showcasing contemporary watercolor. Selecting the premier watercolorists in the country, year after year, artists and art enthusiasts look forward to its big, beautiful images, innovative approaches and insightful commentary. Continuing the tradition, this 12th edition celebrates artistic vision—delivering a stunning diversity of ideas, inspiration, and breathtaking art … in short, everything fans of this series have come to expect, including the wonderfully unexpected. With a special focus on artistic vision, this edition explores how artists seize upon moments of beauty and wonder, inject emotional content and personal interpretation, and translate it all into brilliant, standout paintings.

Watercolor on paper

21″ x 14.25″

Oil on board

Watercolor on paper

By: Meredith E. Lewis

According to Ric Dentinger’s mother, he was always different than other children, including his five siblings. At the age of 3,he would sit alone and draw for hours on long sheets of paper stretched across the floor; the local butcher always stood ready to refill the paper supply whenever it dwindled. Today Dentinger, who counts Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer, John Pike and John Singer Sargent among the artists he admires, maintains his child-like enthusiasm for art and color. His brush wields watercolor with a flourish and an illustrator’s touch, proving that the medium can be—in his words—bold, dramatic and strong.

Sweet Melodrama
Dentinger’s best paintings capture everyday views and objects in extraordinary ways. Doorways yawn with gaping black mouths, doughnuts glimmer like beads in an oversize tower, and a maraschino cherry tumbles across a table tossed with whipped cream and nuts. The colors in his paintings are as luscious as their subjects: Pinks and greens cavort with reds and blues and violets and yellows. The tones he employs are jewel-like in their intensity and in their brilliance, set off with darks so dark that the paintings could easily be mistaken for works in another medium. Suddenly objects and aspects too easily eaten,ignored, or altogether forgotten are rendered special and astonishing. The viewer is captivated by the seemingly un-captivating. Dentinger often paints views and objects that will not—and cannot—last. Watercolor_Artist_Dentinger-6-10