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Happy New Year Everyone!
Into the new year
In Washington D.C. an exciting new change is happening. Artist Nicholas Simmons has been working on changing minds and teaching new approaches in the watercolor world. He is our Featured Artist as we end the old year with a *sigh* and smile our way into 2009. Change is good.
Artist Allan Kirk and his wife Lesley live in a beautiful farmhouse in France where they host popular painting holidays for artists. Visit their website at Tarnincolour.com.
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TIP#15: Sink the blades and sharp points of your studio tools into a block of recycled Styrofoam for safe, easy storage and retrieval. Cuts hurt, trust me.
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Meanwhile, in the middle east
In Cairo, where the pharaohs sleep, is an ICT teacher and artist named Paul Moran who explores the light and vistas this ancient city offers up each day. He's our current On The Net artist —Al salaam a'alaykum, Paul!
I gots brush
As I showed you last time, I found my brush. Now that we're all half broke I'm thinking of painting. Anyone with me? If you want to see me with a new brush feel free to...
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Whether you're looking for people, processes, goods, or knowledge you can't find a better place to start than our Newly Expanded Art Links Directory. All of our directory links are hand-picked, owner-tested, researched and approved with an artist's sensibility in mind. Look for new ideas, new career paths, hobbies, or do a little online shopping through our advertisers to help support our work here. Visit the Link Directory NOW! (it's BIG and it's free!)
Who's here?
There are now 691+ artists represented in the Artist's Websites and Art Links directory pages. We're attracting artists world-wide, at all skill levels, students to professionals, who want to share their work with you. Might as well make a few clicks and start saying "Hi," there's a lot of folks out there.
Our Archives
The Featured Artist archives and the On The Net archives are now collected for viewing. It's greatest hits time!
The Artist Galleries
Our Artist Galleries section is reserved for hand-selected artists of merit. If you are selected to be a Featured Artist you will automatically get a free thumbnail-and-text Artist Galleries link and a free Premium Link in the Artists section of the Art Links directory. Grab that brush and keep painting!
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Nicholas Simmons, a contemporary Washington D.C. artist, continues to make headlines with his beautifully bold, large-format paintings. His works will be featured in the Winter 2009 issue of Watercolor
magazine (American Artist) and while his notoriety is growing as an innovative artist with much-sought-after workshops and demonstrations, he's a darn fine guitarist to boot.
Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nicholas grew up with an interest in art and music that continued after high school. While independently honing his artistic skills, he studied with watercolorists such as Barbara Nechis and the late Valfred Thëlin (Watercolor: Let the Medium Do It ). His work was subsequently featured in Nechis' Watercolor from the Heart in 1993.
Nicholas' proficiency as a guitarist led him to pursue music as a creative career, taking on the occasional art commission from time to time. He studied guitar under the tutelage of Pat Metheny and Manuel Barrueco and had Ibanez Guitars sponsoring his music.
In 2002 Nicholas returned to painting full time and in 2003 he launched his website www.nicholassimmons.com. By 2004 he and his wife Olga had their beautiful daughter, Larissa. The years that followed were a whirlwind of recognition, appreciation, and growing respect for an artist coming into his own with a fresh, fluid, contemporary take on painting with watercolors and acrylics.
In 2007 he won top prize at the National Watercolor Society 87th Annual Exhibition, with "Fresh Sushi," followed by a 2008 Gold Medal for his painting "Tokyo Express" (above) in the 29th Annual Pennsylvania Watercolor Society International Juried Exhibition. At the Baltimore Watercolor Society 2008 Mid-Atlantic Show his painting "Summer Sonata" won the Silver Medal.
Through his success, the Da Vinci Paint Company and Princeton Artist Brushes became sponsors and Creative Catalyst Productions produced his debut Innovative Watermedia instructional DVD.
Known for his aggressively irreverent, paradigm-busting approach to watercolor painting, Nicholas stresses working in a large format for beginners. He teaches that artists can learn better control and less fear by understanding what the paint wants to do at the scale it physically wants to do it. This encourages new and old students alike:
"Small mistakes can ruin small paintings.
You gotta make BIG mistakes to ruin big paintings."
In an interesting intersection of creative fronts, Nicholas was instrumental (ha!) in the design, production, and marketing of Dean Guitars Tommy Bolin "Teaser" Commemorative Guitar, a solid body electric featuring a graphic of the late guitarist. (You can see an interview with Nicholas at the guitar's release at the 2008 NAMM show here: Tommy Bolin Tribute Dean Guitars NAMM 2008.) For a taste of Nicholas' classical playing watch this one: Venezuelan Waltz (Valse Criollo) by Antonio Lauro.
In the coming year look for Nicholas being interviewed in The Artists Magazine, authoring a June "Creativity Workshop" column in Watercolor Artist, and in the Best of 2008 issue of Watercolor Artist.
Keep abreast of his latest work by visiting www.nicholassimmons.com where you'll also find information about giclee print availability, workshops, instructional media, and other art news. You will find a more in-depth and day-to-day look into the life of the artist at his popular blog: nicholassimmons.blogspot.com. Nicholas' Innovative Watermedia Creative Catalyst Productions DVD can be purchased HERE!
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Where's your studio? (Audience Participation Time!)
Where do YOU make art? Bedroom? Basement? Attic? Kitchen Table? Converted Garage? Custom Artist Space? Restaurant Booth? Barstool? Is your studio in a box in the closet or in a pad in your pocket?
Artists can have dozens of studio configurations in their lifetimes. They are interesting places where interesting things are meant to happen.
Share your space with us and we'll share it with the world. (No need to sweep up and you can have your name withheld if you want!)
Send us photos of your personal creative space(s) with your website link if you've got one. Submissions will be collected for the artist's studios feature in an upcoming publication. Provide a description or statement if you like.
It's easy.
Chances are you have a cellphone that is also a radio/browser/videoplayer/organizer/IMer/emailer and usually A CAMERA! A camera with email capabilities or BlueTooth or Wi-Fi... to easily take pictures of the space in which you create... so you can... click below and...
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Submissions will be displayed for your enjoyment in future issues of WatercolorPainting.com. Don't be shy!
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On the Net: Paul Moran Watercolour - Cairo, Egypt
"Khamseen Study: Spring in Cairo" Watercolour © 2008 Paul Moran
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"Watercolour painting is about painting the light. I think the nature of
this medium is perfect for capturing an impression of Cairo, or rather how I feel about this city’s amazing landscapes. Looking out of the window on the way to work from Maadi to New Cairo is never uninspiring, but the skies are particularly beautiful in this season; backlit clouds skirting the horizon, soft areas of rose-yellow merging with the low desert hills and skeletal cities. Late afternoon on the way back and huge clouds bustle far away to diffuse the sun, small chinks letting blinding rays escape to disappear into the dusty haze somewhere below."
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Paul Moran is currently teaching ICT and Art at the New Cairo British International School in Cairo, Egypt. Visit his website at www.paulmorangallery.com. You can view Paul's figurative studies and paintings at www.watercolournudes.com.
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