Watercolor

by Linda S. Price Anderson Homestead2002, watercolor, 18½ x 22½. Private collection. Kolb looked for diagonals to create drama in this composition. Vermont artist Kathleen Kolb is not a fussy painter. She doesn’t need sunny skies and perfect weather to paint outdoors and actually prefers painting the cold, wintry snow scenes for which her state is known. Although she enjoys painting on-site—working in her car if temperatures are unbearable—Kolb also works indoors, using photographic reference or field studies to start a new painting or add the finishing touches to a work started on location. And when it comes to media,…