About the Artist

I live close to some of my favorite scenes – old docks, waterfront buildings and marinas, and everyday neighborhoods near the shoreline in Alameda. I prefer an impressionistic style. I compose a scene with solid design principles, then apply vivid pigments that meld with a freedom and spontaneity – that’s the beauty of watercolor.

I’ve drawn and painted since childhood, when my father inspired a lifelong interest in architecture. He designed and built our family home, and occasionally painted landscapes of old houses and industrial scenes. From him I learned to see my environment as interlocking shapes of light, shadow, color, and texture.

Art Study

• Workshops with renowned plein air landscape artist Martha DePoo and free-form watercolorist Sandford Birdsey in Key West, Florida
• Art Courses at Academy of Art in
  San Francisco, Mendocino Art Center, and University of California at Riverside Extension
• Workshops with watercolor landscape experts Mel Stabin and Tony Couch
• Sketchbook and travel-journal workshops with Susan Cornellis of Sebastopol

Affiliations

• East Bay Plein Air Painters
• Oakland Art Association
• Frank Bette Center for the Arts

Contact

510-748-9214 or bbsketch46@comcast.net