Brian Blood
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Northern Californian Brian Blood has been a professional artist for the past 23 years. Operating his own publishing company, then becoming a successful Illustrator, working in Graphic Design and now for the past 15 years he has settled into Fine Art. Teaching for more than a decade in the Fine Art Dept. at the academy of Art University in San Francisco and conducting his own Plein Air Painting Workshops around California keeps him very busy.
Events and Exhibitions for 2004 have included the Monterey Museum of Art, Winner, Best of Show, San Louis Obispo Plein Air Competiton, Winner of both the People's Choice and Artist's Choice Awards at the Carmel Art Festival, Winner of the Landscape Award of Excellence, Greenhouse Gallery Salon in San Antonio, TX, Winner of the Jack Richardson Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America National Exhibition in Kirkland, WA. Plein Air Paintout events include, Paint the Parks, Rocky Mountain National Park, Telluride Plein Air, Sonoma Plein Air and Paint the Sierras.

Brian is a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America, The Northern California Painters Group and the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters. He is an Artist Member of the California Art Club. Feature artuicles have been published in Southwest Art, Art of the West, Artists MAgazine, Coast Magazine and American Artist.