Watercolor Paintings Gallery

Sketching Tokyo Russell Stutler was born in Japan, but raised in America. Living in Tokyo with his wife and family, he documents every day scenes and people with a lively penstroke and quick brush. "Much of my work has been related to either graphic art or Christian ministry or a combination of both. Ever since I was in high school in the early '70s and saw a television program on the life of Leonardo Da Vinci, I have had a passion for sketching. I usually sketch in pen and ink or pencil, although lately I have been sketching mainly with...

Watercolors "My degree, from the University of Maryland, is in Art Education, and I have taken master's level courses from the Maryland Art Institute in Baltimore. I taught art for four years at the middle school level, and taught courses in drawing and painting for the recreation department. I worked as a free lance graphic artist for several years in Asheville, NC. I currently have a studio in Fort Mill SC where I show my work and teach classes. I also provide graphic and website design to other creative small businesses." —Elizabeth McRorie

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.

Richard C. Moore is a charter member of the American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA). His marine paintings hang in numerous museums and corporate walls. Mr. Moore's ship and marine paintings can be viewed at www.ship-paintings.com Of particular interest is the Sketching and Painting Outdoors section, free online lessons, and watercolor sketches of his world travels.

India "His figurative works are based on pure drawing. Regularly sketching with pencil, charcoal, crayon and sometimes watercolour has become a customary part of his life. He pays special attention on the effect of shade and light. He paints figures from memory and from live models. Especially the use of watercolour in figure which is the challenging job for every artist, he can easily handle. His works reflects his extraordinary love for the subject." 25 year old Freelance Artist Rahul Salve has explored a wide variety of media including oil, acrylics, watercolor, and pastel since his 2003 graduation from Dr....

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...

Josi Etter is an international artist and angler who combines her love of nature, fish, water and art to create unique original artwork. Ms. Etter has studied, trained, fished and lived in Germany, Africa, the Phillippines and the U.S. Josi's work has been displayed in numerous galleries including The International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Kuenstlerhaus (Germany), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Fine Art (Boston), and the Chicago Art Institute. She is currently painting for Trout Unlimited magazine. Visit SketchAndRelease.com for a look into Josi Etter's unique angle on making watercolor painting work...

Joke Klootwijk "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...