Watercolor paintings by Natalia Erdmann

Watercolor of a figure with dark hair and warm skin tones, shown from the head to the waist in a dress worn off the shoulders, left mostly as white paper and shaped by blue violet folds, against a pale blue ground. — Figure in a blue dress
Watercolor on paper

Natalia specializes in large watercolors, painted as single works or as groups planned together for homes, collections, offices and restaurants. She also paints smaller originals and personal commissions.

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The brightest white is the paper

The pale rings along a tentacle, two sprigs left untouched inside a field of apricot, the flecks lifted out of a papaya's dark seeds. In each of these details the brightest white is not painted. It is the paper itself, kept clear or uncovered again while the color moves around it.

Close view of rose and violet tentacles with suckers left as white paper. — Detail
Octopus
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Close view of two sprigs left as white paper inside a warm apricot and orange wash. — Detail
Flowers in outline
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Close view of black seeds with tiny pale highlights, ringed by ochre. — Detail
Papaya
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Selected work

From a full sheet to a single bird

Flowers, fruit, leaves and birds. Some paintings fill the paper; others leave most of it open.

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Horizontal watercolor of blue sea with a white breaking wave, painted as a band inside a cream paper margin, signed nec at lower right.

Horizontal watercolor of choppy blue sea with scattered white crests under a soft gray blue sky, inside a cream paper margin.

Two sea paintings in the same format, shown as a pair.
Sea with a breaking wave and Open sea

Commissions

A painting for a particular place

Natalia paints commissioned watercolors as single large works or as a group planned together for a home, an office, a restaurant or another interior.

A commission can also be small and personal: a place you love, an animal, a view you want to keep.

How commissions work

Photograph from above of a watercolor octopus on a sheet of paper, with a round brush and a white palette holding rose and violet paint, on a wooden table. — The octopus, with a brush and the palette.

The artist

Natalia Erdmann

Natalia is a Mexican artist who paints only in watercolor. Her background in architecture shows in how she composes the sheet: measured margins, fields of color set inside the paper, and close attention to the edge where a wash either stops cleanly or is allowed to run.

About Natalia

Have a painting, a place or an idea in mind?

A few lines are enough to begin. The conversation continues by email, directly with Natalia.

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