John Bayalis
Noted for his distinct, realist style, John Bayalis’s skill at handling contemporary themes and subject matter has earned him acclaim from art critics and collectors throughout the United States. His vibrant watercolors reflect a specific clarity of light and form while dealing with unique viewpoints in portraying popular culture and the vernacular landscape. His nature studies portray the natural world of the microcosm, painted with exquisite detail and subtle color that present the ordinary world around us as an aesthetic delight.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards throughout the United States in both national juried art shows and Fine Arts Festivals. Among his honors are an award of an individual artist’s fellowship grant and the selection for The Watercolor Page in AMERICAN ARTIST magazine. The artist’s works are included in private and corporate collections throughout the United States.
Colin Berry
Colin Berry is a realist painter who has studied both historical and contemporary approaches to oil painting technique and color theory. In 1993, he was awarded a Fulbright grant to study in Italy, where he sought out Renaissance masterworks, attended the Florence Academy of Art, and studied human anatomy at the Zoological Museum in Florence. He has exhibited on a regional and national level, and has been featured in American Artist magazine twice, The Artist’s Magazine twice (two covers), and in two publications of the Best of America Oil Artists (cover) book series.
Maya Brym
Currently living and working in Brooklyn, Maya Brym has exhibited her paintings in New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Her work explores interactions between natural and human-made objects and synthesizes various painting materials and techniques. She has
participated in international residencies, and in 2010 she received a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work was the subject of a feature article in the April 2012 issue of The Artist’s Magazine.
Terry Crane
Terry has been dividing his time between fine art and commercial art for almost 30 years. He is currently concentrating his design efforts in digital media, website design, and architecture. His fine art pursuits focus on figurative and plein air work. Terry has a degree in Fine Art with concentration in painting. His work is currently on display at Independence Gallery in Loveland, Colorado.
Lisa L. Cyr
Lisa L. Cyr is an accomplished multidisciplinary artist and author with a content-driven approach. Her highly imaginative, fantasy-inspired works use layers of metaphor and allegory to stimulate curiosity, provoke thought, and encourage further inspection. A poetic, rhythmic synthesis of drawing, painting, collage, and assemblage, Cyr’s visually tactile, mixed-media work is composed to collectively create a new reality with a more expressive, symbolic arrangement. An artist member of the Society of Illustrators NYC and the International Society of Experimental Artists, Cyr’s work has been featured in numerous magazines, books, and online. She has authored seven books on art and design and writes for many of the creative industry’s leading art publications. In addition, Cyr gives workshops across the country and teaches in several of the top MFA graduate programs.
Joyce Faulknor
Joyce Faulknor founded the Emerald Lake Art Academy in 1991 and taught there for 10 years. She gives workshops across the country and is most recently working with artist Guy Magallanes on “Art 2 Art”—a PBS television series. Her paintings have been featured in Watercolor magazine, Splash 8 and Splash 10 (The Best of Watercolor series) and she is the author of Stunning Crystal and Glass (from North Light Books).
Grant Fuller
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Grant Fuller began his career in commercial art where he supervised the production of more than 300 television and 1000 radio commercials. Grant now works full time painting and teaching watercolor, and is know for having a fresh, loose style. Grant’s paintings have won several awards and have been featured at local and international levels.
Gary Greene
Gary Greene has been working as a professional artists continuously since 1967. He has conducted workshops, demonstrations and lectures in the United States, Canada and Asia since 1985. His most recent book, The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil, is his tenth from North Light Books.
Laurie Humble
Laurie Humble is the author of the North Light book, Watercolor Depth and Realism and two instructional DVDs: Secrets in Watercolor: Depth and Realism and Secrets in Watercolor: The Unifying Wash. She conducts workshops throughout the United States and her works have appeared in more than Fifty National and International Exhibitions garnering numerous awards. She holds signature memberships in nine art and watercolor societies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Texas State University.
Michael Chesley Johnson
An award-winning landscape painter noted for his expressive, intuitive use of color, Michael works in both oil and pastel. He paints primarily outdoors, choosing locations from the American Southwest, Downeast Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. He has been an Invited Artist at the SEDONA PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL for the past six years (2006-2011) and in 2011 also participated in the Plein Air Southwest, Grand Canyon National Park and Zion National Park invitationals. He will be back at the Grand Canyon event for 2012.
Michael was awarded Master Pastellist status by Pastel Artists Canada in 2008, and he is a Signature Member of The Pastel Society of America and a juried member of Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionist Society. His paintings have appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, The Pastel Journal, American Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur (Plein Air Magazine) and are in both corporate and private collections.
Jamie Markle
Jamie Markle is the Publisher and Editorial Director for the entire Fine Art Community at F+W. He works closely with the editorial teams at F+W to provide art instruction from the world’s best artists in all forms: magazines, books, videos and digital downloads. In addition to his 20 years in product and media development, Jamie holds a degree in Fine Art with a concentration in Painting and Drawing from Xavier University. When he’s not focusing on his art publications or traveling to national art events, Jamie can be found painting, running or posting on Facebook.
Sarah Parks
Sarah Parks is an artist who skillfully blends Impressionism with Classical Realism. Her talent is evident in her ability to capture the form and her excellent use of light and shadow.
In her study of portraiture, she is grateful to have been guided by some of today’s finest portrait artists, such as Daniel Greene, Michael Shane Neil, and Paul McCormack, and mentored by Bart Lindstrom.
She has gathered instruction from classes, workshops, books and is a member of the Oil Painters of America, Portrait Society of America and the American Society of Portrait Artists. Her charcoal drawing “The Shawl” was one of 30 out of 1,100 entries juried into the American Woman Artist Association Exhibit in Pasadena, CA.
Susan Semenick
Through watercolor, artist Susan Semenick explores life’s connectivity and continuity. Her figure and portrait work examines the play of light and shadow, while her landscapes strive to give a fleeting glimpse of the subject, allowing the flow of paint to dictate the direction of the composition. Semenick is represented by Renaissance Fine Art and Design in Carmel, Indiana, Harrisburg Art Association, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Two Rivers Gallery, Chiloquin, Oregon.
Terry Stanley
After a career in law enforcement was cut short by an injury almost 20 years ago, Terry Stanley’s hobby of drawing and painting became her vocation. Her artwork has garnered awards and honors throughout the U.S. Terry became one of the Internet’s best-selling pet portrait artists thanks to her work being shared on on-line social networks. Since 2009, Terry has completed over 500 commissioned pet portraits for clients as far away as South Africa, Great Britain, and Australia. Terry is the Director of Richeson School of Art and the Richeson75 International Art Competitions in addition to painting full-time in her Green Bay, WI studio. She has studied with Everett Raymond Kinstler, Dawn Whitelaw, Stephen Quiller, Wende Caporale, and others, and enjoys passing along her knowledge to her own students.
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Annie Strack
Annie Strack has earned signature membership in five artist societies and she is an official authorized artist for the United States Coast Guard. Her artwork has received hundreds of awards and hangs in over 1,000 public, corporate, and private collections worldwide. She travels around the country to teach workshops and classes. Her show Painting Seascapes in Watercolor is broadcast on over 90 television stations around the world.
Betsy Dillard Stroud
Betsy Dillard Stroud began painting at the age of eight when an insightful uncle gave her a set of oils and suggested a tutor. Stroud is a signature member and Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society in New York and a signature member of the National Watercolor Society in California, the Rocky Mountain Watermedia Honor Society in Colorado, and a Royal Scorpion and life Member of the Arizona Watercolor Society. She is a former President of the Southwestern Watercolor Society.
A nationally acclaimed and award-winning artist, Stroud is also a former art historian who received her M.A. from the University of Virginia.
Stroud is the author of Painting from the Inside Out (North Light Books, 2002) and The Artist’s Muse: Unlock the Door for Your Creativity, also published by North Light Books. Stroud has adjudicated over sixty international, national, state and regional exhibitions. She has written articles for many major art magazines, including The Artist’s Magazine and Watercolor Artist, and has taught workshops and lectured throughout the United States for the last twenty-five years. Although known for her watercolor and acrylic paintings, she has also had much experience in many media including oil, printmaking, and pastel.
Jacqueline Sullivan
Jacqueline Sullivan has been a mixed media, acrylic, and calligraphic artist since first being introduced to these media in high school art classes. She has a degree in graphic design and worked for many years as a publication, marketing, and advertising designer. Personal artistic development is intrinsic to her practice.
Jacqueline’s mixed media, calligraphic, and acrylic work have been shown in galleries and top juried art fairs nationwide. She pursues an element of adventure and discovery in her art seeking the truly unique. She experiments with texture, layers, paint, and materials. In addition to her studio practice, Jacqueline has been a teaching artist for 30 years.
Jacqueline has published technique articles in both Somerset Studio and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines. She has been profiled in many Calligraphic Journals and has a best-selling DVD – Acrylics: Textures, Layers, and Metallics – published by Creative Catalyst Productions.
Joy Thomas
Joy Thomas is an extraordinary artist; her beautifully crafted images capture the sitters’ features, of course, but also their mood and psychology. Thomas received the first place prize for portrait painting from the American Society of Portrait Artists in 1996. Her work has appeared in American Artist, The Artist’s Magazine, International Artist, and in the book The Best of Portrait Drawing. In the past two decades, her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries all over the United States.