Greg Conley

Watercolors California watercolorist Kathleen Alexander has been painting watercolors with an eye for beautiful places and things for over 20 years. Her web site offers a select gallery of her landscapes and florals that are excellent for studying watercolor technique. Her paintings hang in many private collections and she has a variety of high-quality prints available for your perusal.

Dutch Vincent Van Gogh was an artist whose work is one of the formative influences of 20th-century art and whose life of suffering has become legendary. The son of a Dutch parson, he was employed by a firm of art dealers in The Hague, London and Paris. Afterwards he became in turn a schoolmaster in Britain, a missionary to the miners in the Borinage, Belgium, and finally, in 1880, an artist. In 1886 he left Holland for Paris, where he lived with his brother Theo, one of the few art dealers encouraging such artists as Bernard, Degas, Gauguin, Seurat and...

American A painter of landscape and figurative subjects in Pennsylvania and Maine, Andrew Wyeth became one of the best-known American painters of the 20th century. His style is deceptively realistic with compositions based on natural abstract elements in natural light. His richly pigmented and direct, highly textured watercolors are his playground for finding images that strike a resonance within. In Wyeth's more formal egg tempera paintings he can freeze crisp shards of daily rural life in time with meticulous detail and technique. He was born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and was trained by his father, American illustrator and muralist Newell...

English Although Joseph Mallord William Turner learned much about light, atmosphere, and water reflections from the likes of Claude Lorrain and other Dutch marine painters, he pushed the envelope by expanding and egrandising the role of light, color, and color key in painting. One of his primary concerns was the overall romantic effects attained through light and color. Turner's later works foreshadows the Impressionists that followed him. — Watercolor Masters: J.M.W. Turner © 2010 Greg Conley —

American "James McNeill Whistler, the painter of that most American of works--the very icon of American motherhood--"Arrangement in Grey and Black" (better known, of course, as "Whistler's Mother"), ironically left the United States at the age of twenty-one, never to return. Whistler lived as an expatriate, alternating between London and Paris depending on the local artistic climate at the time. Egotistical, abrasive, and yet extremely talented, he stands as an isolated figure in art history, never directly associated with a specific style or school of painting. As a result, Whistler's work has in modern times rarely received the attention it...

German Albrecht Dürer carefully kept sketchbooks and reference drawings and paintings for personal use throughout his career. Dürer's watercolor sketches of "mountains and river scenery anticipated the art of landscape painting." He was highly sought after by the church and noblemen for his skills in portraiture and rendering the human form. The religious woodblocks, engravings and etched prints Dürer sold were prized by his patrons and counterfeiters alike. He was forced to keep careful records of the inventories and copyrights of his printed work. His exacting and careful studies of nature, many done while convalescing in his early 30s, are...

On the Net "When I was three years old and growing up in Hong Kong, one day I came across my teenage neighbour practicing Chinese brush painting. From that moment, I felt inspired me to paint. Being from a working class family, without any encouragement from my parents, I started to learn to paint on my own. In 1973 our family moved to Canada and then I was able to receive the formal art training I was looking for. After graduation, I realized that art school hadn't prepared me for how difficult it was going to be to become an...