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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...

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...

On the Net Watercolor - France Artist Statement: "Time is made of pearls, each a world apart, each a complete life you may call a moment. It's not real, not unreal, it's made of reality and perception. Some moments have a deep resonance with your soul. Watercolor is, for me, the most harmonious way to convey those vibes, through a smile, a color, a shine, a freshness, a just-a-little-something-I-can't-tale, a very special light echoing in me." Joel Tenzin

Paul Moran, a British artist living in Cairo, Egypt "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...

Watercolor Temecula CA, USA David Musser's popular watercolor classes and demos are a regional favorite in southern California. Although he mainly works in watercolor, David is fluent in drawing, pastels, oils, and acrylics and teaches drawing, pastel, and watercolor at UC Riverside, CA. He is a plein aire painter who has won eighteen Best of Show or First Place Awards. David was working as a professional musician before a degree in applied art from San Diego State University led to 12 years working as an illustrator, animator, and art director in the motion picture/TV industry. After opening his own gallery...