This is a wonderful, whimsical painting. I especially like the woman riding the gorgeous fish. The treatment of the mountains with the many colors and the fractures is wonderful, as are the palm trees that are many colors, complementing the fish and the mountains.… Read more
Janet Gilliland and Cheryl Dicus, artists and residents of Rancho Bernardo, California, have won two of the top awards in the highly competitive April 2023 San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS) Member’s exhibition “Blooming Thoughts”, an in-gallery show of the SDWS at 2825 Dewey Road in Liberty Station, San Diego, CA.… Read more
Susan Hewitt, an artist and resident of Lakeside, California, has won the third-place award in the highly competitive April 2023 San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS) Member’s exhibition “Blooming Thoughts”, an in-gallery show of the SDWS at 2825 Dewey Road in Liberty Station, San Diego, CA.… Read more
Thomas Franco, an artist and resident of Tierrasanta, San Diego, California, has won the second-place award in the highly competitive April 2023 San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS) Member’s exhibition “Blooming Thoughts”, an in-gallery show of the SDWS at 2825 Dewey Road in Liberty Station, San Diego, CA.… Read more
Edward Abrams, an artist and resident of San Diego, California, has won the first-place award in the highly competitive April 2023 San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS) Member’s exhibition “Blooming Thoughts”, an in-gallery show of the SDWS at 2825 Dewey Road in Liberty Station, San Diego, CA.… Read more
I like the personality of this one, and that it is a very stylized image rather than just a straightforward dog painting. I like the attitude we see in the pose of the dog and its expression.… Read more
I had read Italo Calvino’s remarkable book Invisible Cities many years before I had seen the equally remarkable work of Thomas Schaller. Invisible Cities is a sparkling work of fiction in which an imagined Marco Polo recounts to Kubla Khan descriptions of cities he has visited.… Read more
A very interesting image recalling the 20s and 30s done in an art deco style.
A very competently executed watercolor with a surreally placed easel on the beach.… Read more
An emotional response in “Night Watch” was created through the use of a restrained color palette and decisive brush strokes. The neutral red accents that break up the even horizontal space division, and the small white shapes that direct the viewers eye through the composition create an atmosphere of intrigue that keeps the viewer engaged.… Read more
San Diego Watercolor Society (SDWS) member and frequent exhibitor Sheila Greer died last month in a tragic accident. Sheila was a close friend of a number of SDWS members who remember her as a person who had lived her life to its fullest. … Read more