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American J.W.S. Cox is known for having first "invented" and explored the full possibilities of the wet-on-wet watercolor technique, the technique of painting on water saturated paper. Cox was born on May 18, 1911 in Yonkers, New York, the son of an architect and his wife. He grew up in Bruynswick and Wallkill, New York, and from an early age sketched landscapes. He graduated from Pratt Institute in New York City (1933), while working at various jobs during the Great Depression. From 1928-1936 Cox studied the works of El Greco for composition, Feininger for design, Turner for color and Cèzanne...

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.

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...

English English poet-painter William Blake, a reclusive and visionary artist, produced and published his own books with engraved texts and hand-colored illustrations. Themes of obscure religious and mythical stories and man's quest for the divine permeate all of Blake's writings and paintings while elements of Michalangelo and the Mannerist school and pre-Rennaissance book illuminations are evident in the content of his work. Blake had no use for the visible world around us, relying on his own "inner vision" and inspiration, denying reason as being ultimately destructive to this own "inner vision". — Watercolor Masters: William Blake © 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...

Capture Tokyo's vibrant night-time cityscape in this watercolor scene, and learn how to utilize watercolor's unique transparency to make your painting glow through the darkness.

American Born in Boston is 1836, Winslow Homer is one of the most notable figures in Civil War era American art. Working as an apprentice to a local lithographer at age 19, and being entirely self-taught, Homer's drawings were in high demand in leading periodicals of the day. After the war Homer then devoted his talents to recording man in the natural beauty of the great outdoors. His Maine seascapes, woodland scenes in the Adirondacks and watercolors of the Bahamas, brought him much acclaim as an accomplished naturalist artist. He died at Prout's Neck, Maine, September 29, 1910. — Watercolor...