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Brian Blood
Monterey Artist Brian
Blood has been creating artwork for the past 25 years. First working as
a Layout and Design Artist for local advertising agencies and newspapers
in his hometown of Boston, MA, later operating his own publishing
company, then becoming a successful Illustrator and graphic artist. But
it just wasn’t quite enough. Relocating to San Francisco and teaching
for more than a decade in the Fine Art Department at the Academy of Art
University was an exciting experience. All his earlier experiences
had provided him the confidence and opportunity to focus solely on Fine
Art and Brian’s work has been aggressively collected ever since. Now
retired from teaching at his almamater, Brian enjoys
conducting his own Plein Air Painting workshops in and around beautiful
Central California.
Frequently
painting outdoors, creating small studies of his subjects and shooting
photo reference is only a small portion of his creative process. In his
studio Brian will compose his larger, more ambitious gallery works from
these reference materials, allowing his trained eye to survey and
incorporate the balance needed for a successful painting.
Recent
Awards
Best of Show and People’s
Choice Awards - Museum of Art & History 2006
Founder’s Award of Excellence -
Eiteljorg
Museum, Indianapolis, IN 2006
People’s Choice Award - Napa
Valley Museum 2005
Mayor’s Choice Award - Carmel
Art Festival 2005
Award of Excellence - Oil
Painters of America Regional Exhibition 2005
Best of Show - San Louis Obispo
Plein Air Painting Exhibition 2004
People’s Choice and Artist’s
Choice Awards - Carmel Art Festival 2004
Jack Richardson Award of
Excellence - Oil Painters of America 2004
Brian
has had feature articles in such national publications as Southwest Art, Plein
Air Magazine, Art of the West, American Artist, Artist’s Magazine, Coast
Magazine and San Diego Magazine. His work appears annually in the California
Impressionist Auctions of Butterfield’s, Christie’s and John Moran. Brian is a
Signature Member of The Oil Painters of America, The Rocky Mountain Plein Air
Painters and The Northern California Painters Group, and an Artist member of the
California Art Club. Brian has also recently been honored with an Honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters from the Academy of Art University in
San Francisco
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