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Our Featured Artist is North Carolina's Sterling Edwards. Sterling's workshops and thoughtful instruction continue to delight, inspire, and inform watercolorists of all levels. Read More...
On The Net I found Netherlands artist Joke Klootwijk who specializes in wet-in-wet watercolor technique as she lives the life of art. Read More...
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There are now 417 artists represented in the Artist's Websites directory page. You will find artists at all levels, students to professionals, all over the globe. Each one of them is living the life of an artist and they share their accomplishments with the world.
Due to circumstances now within our control...
We are now located in Riverside, California. It's sunny and warm here. A very interesting change of pace after half a century of Ohio winters.
Drawing on experience
The Basics of Drawing website is (still) being written, proofed, drawn, and programmed and will be available for your perusal sometime soon, (should be, maybe) and I will strive to be more timely with the watercolorpainting.com updates and additions as things continue to settle down in our new location.
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Updates
Contributor Judi Russell reports a teacher of a second grade class in Illinois found her art lesson
exercise about journal art and selected this process for their art project. Judi created a "Yogi" award for the teacher to print out and give to each student. Judi is hosting examples of the classes work on her JudiRussell.artspan.com website. Stop by and pay them a visit!
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Popular artist Sterling Edwards began teaching his style of painting to watercolor artists of all skill levels in 1993. As his reputation as a watercolor artist and teacher rapidly grew, he was requested to conduct watercolor workshops throughout the United States and Canada. In March, 2006, Sterling was chosen as one of the founding artists and part owner of Art Academy Live (click to visit).
"What I feel about the subject draws me to the brush. I have painted the monumental to the insignificant, each with equal passion. It all begins with an idea and a burning passion to create and express. That is the true artist. Everything else is merely technique."
In 2007 Sterling was elected as a signature member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour. Sterling's original paintings are in private and corporate collections worldwide and he is represented by several galleries. He works from his studio in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
"My name is Joke Klootwijk. I have been painting since 1984 in Barendrecht, a village near Rotterdam. After various art studies my preferred medium is watercolour. My time is devoted to full time painting. I studied art classes and workshops for this technique, by artists whom I admire for their painting style.
The last several years I painted a lot of watercolour paintings in the so called wet-on-wet technique. A difficult but fascinating technique, where I have to react, observe and paint and all this needs to happen within a very short space of time. In the wet-on-wet technique I attack my work head on, with a few pencil lines on the watercolour paper. This make's it for me a very exciting challenge.
An always returning and inspiring theme in my paintings is 'reflection'."
Joke is a member of the Kvbkb of Belgium, and a member of the European Institute of Watercolours in Brussels and representative for the Netherlands. Visit Aquarelleren.nl for a look into Joke's expansive portfolio. She offers workshops and works with regional arts organizations, as well as accepting a limited amount of commissions.
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