Horacio Cobas

About Horacio Cobas

He is an Argentine artist who spent his early childhood drawing and watercolor painting of still life compositions. In addition, participated in the production and painting of several stage sets in theatrical works . Later, at the age of 16, met the family of Mr Juan Batle Planas, born in Catalonia and one of the leading artist in Argentina.From them he got the first brush, canvas and paints, and took the first steps in oil painting. A few years later, replaced oil by acrylics until his late 20's when he put art aside for quite a long time. Back to professional painting many years later, this time with pure and transparent watercolors as his medium of choice. Mixing colors on paper take the watercolor visual experience to a new level of mingled colors and transparent hues. His pigments of choice are those transparent and lightfast to highlight the particulat beauty of watercolor paintings. His palette is a limited one, with a couple of yellows, reds and blues, both cool and warm, in addition to the earth tones of Raw and Burnt Sienna. Now and then, a Viridian or Burnt Umber join the palette. The common subjetcs are nature based compositions, from landscapes and still lifes to human expressions.