BRIAN BLOOD BIOGRAPHY
Brian Blood has been a professional artist for the past 23 years. Teaching for more than a decade in the Fine Art Department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and conducting his own Plein Air Painting Workshops around California keeps him very busy.
Recent events and exhibitions 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 Blood 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. His work is agressivly collected through American Impression Auctions like Sotheby's, Butterfields, Christies and John Moran. Brian has been recently honored as Outstanding Alumnist and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
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