Bev Doolittle (born February 10, 1947) is an American artist working mainly in watercolor paints.
Realistic Western art has conventionally been dominated by oil painting, and Doolittle was instrumental in bringing watercolors into the genre.
For example, in The Forest Has Eyes, the rocks and waterfalls seen close up appear as the faces of Native Americans when viewed from a distance.
In Mesa Ruins, close-up viewing appears to show the Mesa Verde Canyon Anasazi dwellings, although from a distance it gives an impression of the eye and nose of a Native American male.
Her twenty-four set collection of paintings of dark-brown horses set against light brown rocks and white snow, from a distance and arranged in order spell out the words Hide and Seek.