American Artist

Marion W. Hylton: Moving Easily Among Media

Gainesville, Florida, artist Marion W. Hylton is adept at oil, masterful in watercolor, and award-winning in pastel.

Brian Smith: Figurative Abstracts

This Toronto artist has spent the last three years exploring abstraction of the human figure, blending his classical training with a new approach.

David Malan: Storytelling With Figures

This Utah artist is drawn to figures and faces, and he works hard to balance his work-related duties with his love of traditional oil painting.

Sarah Siltala: Capturing Utter Stillness

This New Mexico artist slowly builds up transparent glazes of oil colors to create still lifes and landscapes with luminous, vibrant, and subtle textures.

Benjamin McVey: Painting Objects Lost and Found

This New York City artist paints landscapes, still lifes, and portraits that highlight the relationships between seemingly disparate objects.

Mark Marcuson: Art Versus Science

This Nebraska artist went from scientific illustration to still lifes and figures that enable him to examine life in a new way.

Lisa Goren: A New Meaning of Wet-in-Wet Watercolor

For this Massachusetts artist, water is both her subject and her medium.

Nick Clulow: Interior Acrylic Portraits

This Maryland artist always paints from life, creating work that gives personality and history to inanimate objects.

Steve White: Capturing Nature in Transparent Watercolor

This artist, who primarily paints landscapes in transparent watercolor, finds the unpredictability of the medium to be its most enjoyable trait.

Artist of the Month: Marilyn Fuerstenberg

This self-taught artist has found that learning to paint in watercolor is not only fun and challenging, but it also enables her to explore the world around her.