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On the Net Artist Showcase California, USA "After Welcomed Rain"© Annette Raffwww.watercolorpaintinglessonsonline.com Australia "Dark and Light in City"© Shibu Biswaswww.onthewebart.com/ India "59th St. Bridge"© Thomas W. Schallerwww.twschaller.com California, USA "Klaprozen (Poppies)"© Gerard Hendrikswww.gerardhendriks.net Netherlands "The Staring Man"© Mojtaba Abtahisharghwatercolor.blogspot.com Tehran, Iran

Dong Kingman - A Chinese American watercolor artist "Dong Kingman is recognized as one of the premier watercolor masters in America and a pioneer of the California school of painting. Born in Oakland, California as Dong Moy Shu, Mr. Kingman returned to Hong Kong with his family at age five. There, at the Lingnan School, he studied painting with a Paris-trained teacher. When he returned to Oakland in 1929, he already excelled at calligraphy and watercolor painting; however, he enrolled at a local art school to further his studies. A solo exhibition in San Francisco in 1936 elevated him to...

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...

American A gifted watercolorist, Rex Brandt hailed from San Diego, California. A year before graduation from UC Berkley in 1936, his influential work was recognized by the publishers of Who's Who and the International Index of Artists. Brandt was part of a regional group of like-minded artists enchanted with the unique light, color and landscape of southern California. Together in 1937 they formed a traveling group exhibition called "The California Group." The group introduced America to the exuberance, color and creativity of this new rogue band of western watercolor painters. Among Brandt's friends in this "en plein air" group of...

On the Net: Artist Showcase Virginia, USA "The See Lion" © Will Bullaswww.willbullas.com California, USA "Nuts for You" © Diane Larywww.outpostartist.com Florida, USA "Hanging in There" © Ev Haleswww.evhales.com Australia "Bluebird" © Christine B. Ghattaswww.cbghattas.com San José, Costa Rica "Waiting for Autumn" © Aneta Sakswww.saks.wolomin.pl Poland

English "John Sell Cotman was born in Norwich, the son of a shopkeeper who turned from hairdressing to haberdashery. He came to London to further his artistic education in 1798, and soon became a leading member of the circle of watercolour artists gathered around Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), despite having little formal training. Soon after 1804 he returned to Norwich, where he became a popular teacher with a huge 'circulating library' of his art for his students to use in their studies. Cotman's popularity surpassed Turner's for most of the twentieth century. He was appointed Drawing Master at King's College School...

American Reginald Marsh is best known for his paintings of New York City daily life: burlesque shows, Coney Island, the Bowery, movie houses, and elevated trains. His favorite resource was Coney Island, where he would rapidly fill sketchbooks with drawings of the bathers in all postures and positions. With additional photographs he developed a fine sense of human form and anatomy. Reginald Marsh was born in Paris, son of two artists, but the family settled in New Jersey when he was two. He graduated Yale University in 1920 and moved to New York where he worked as an illustrator for...

Thomas Moran - an American painter and printmaker "Thomas Moran was born in Lancashire, England, and, with his family, moved to the U.S. in 1844. Inspired to paint by his older brother, Moran studied privately in Philadelphia before returning to England for further study. While abroad, Moran was influenced by the hugely successful J.M.W. Turner, and Moran set about copying the master’s moody, atmospheric works. Returning to the U.S., Moran made painting expeditions to the monuments of the American West, first to Yellowstone, then continuing to the Grand Canyon and Yosemite. The finely executed panoramas from these treks won Moran...