Greg Conley

Ono! it's plastic A very brief history of acrylic paint In a 1901 Germany laboratory, the noted chemist Dr. OTTO RÖHM first made synthetic acrylic resin. His ideas were brought into American commercial production in the 1930s through the efforts of Röhm & Haas and by E. I. DuPont de Nemours (Dupont). This particularly useful resin is used in durable forms of fiber, cast plastic sheeting such as plexiglas and Lucite as well as polymerized emulsions for making paint. In 1931 the first acrylic product to be used in any volume was perspex in the U.K. and plexiglas in America...

Watercolor CA,USA Artist Statement: "I grew up in New England and was a realistic Studio Painter for many years. California has always been a mythic land of sunshine that stirred my imagination. A fortunate set of influences helped me arrive at my own style of interpreting the California Landscape. I was probably permanently warped by doing paint by numbers as a child. I fell hard for the work of the early California Impressionists, particularly Granville Redmond and William Wendt. Their work helped me to see the landscape as shapes. It is much easier for me to control hard edges with...

American Milford Zornes was born and raised in Oklahoma and he finished high school in California. After spending a couple years hitch-hiking across the USA he ended up studying art in 1927 at the Otis Art Institute. His watercolor instructor was Millard Sheets, a gifted painter and teacher, who joined Zornes as member of the "California Group." Mr. Zornes started winning awards for his work by 1933 and soon found himself working as a P.W.A.P. artist in the New Deal, painting murals in government and public buildings. In appreciation he was given a one man show in Washington, D.C. where...

Haitian/French/American John James Audubon's name has become synonymous with environmental conservation and natural history. Although he was not a trained naturalist, Audubon's love of birds drove his art. He chose as his task to document all the birds and animals in America but did not discover any new species. The engravings of his watercolors of wildlife were "a landmark in nineteenth-century natural history" (H. W. Janson.) "Snowy Owl" is depicted. — Watercolor Masters: John James Audubon © 2010 Greg Conley Additional Links: audubon.org Audubon Society Audubon at Butler Institute of American Art

American "'My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.' Few artists have painted so honest and revealing a portrait of America as did Edward Hopper. His timeless images of the wayside night cafe, the empty movie theatre, and the Victorian house by the railroad track all live in memory as the ultimate rendering of those subjects. Born in Nyack, New York, along the Hudson River, Hopper began to study art in the local schools before seeking instruction in commercial art in New York City in l899. From l900 to...

Frederic Remington, an American artist Frederic Remington was born in 1861 in Canton, New York. Mr. Remington is considered one of the greatest western genre painters, sculptors, and illustrators of his time. During the Spanish-American war, Mr. Remington worked for the New York Journal under William Randolph Hearst as a war correspondent. Frederic Remington died on December 26, 1909 at his studio and home in New Rochelle, New York from the effects of an appendicitis attack. — Watercolor Masters: Frederic Remington © 2010 Greg Conley —

Watercolors Lake Oswego, Oregon Maud Durland, an award-winning Oregon watercolor artist, captures her motifs in a figurative and contemporary style. She is known for her calming renderings of landscapes and she also likes to paint a variety of other subjects. Light and shadows are essential components in her paintings. "I'm looking for motifs that are beautiful and make you dream away. I believe we need that to find balance in our busy lives. I am especially fascinated by landscapes. My favorite sceneries I have found in California. I love those rolling hills and the vineyards. When the light is right...

Watercolor Toronto, Canada Herry Arifin's calligraphic brushwork instills a vigor and dash to everday urban scenes, still lifes, and landscapes that is hard to rival, effortlessly flowing between abstraction with realism. He's out there On The Net. —GC From "Why I Paint" "Painting is, for me, a way of communicating, of expressing to others my feelings about the world around us. When I retired early, in 2002, I found that I had suddenly lost many of the opportunities for communicating that had come with my work. Painting has filled that need since then, and I think it could do so...