Aquabord
Featured artist: Louise De Masi
World Watercolor Month ambassador Louise De Masi has been a lifelong artist. Her career as a signwriter led her to acrylics, but the discovery of watercolors in 2011 reignited her joy of painting.
Featured artist: Michael Ireland
Aquabord artist Michael Ireland believes successful public art is in effect, a way-finder, a sense of place. Geographically, it gives us a guide or reference relative to where we are going or a reminder of where we have been. It can also be a way-finder that guides our beliefs or challenges us to look within, perhaps grounding our senses as we experience our surroundings in a slightly different way.
Featured artist: Daniela Werneck
Aquabord artist Daniela Werneck is a realistic watercolor painter based in Houston, TX, whose work combines the most traditional watercolor methods with a contemporary look.
Featured artist: Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones, a UK native now residing in New Hampshire, rekindled his love of art after receiving a Christmas gift several years ago.
A conversation with Ali Cavanaugh
Watercolor artist, Ali Cavanaugh discusses how she discovered Aquabord, her color palette, her favorite techniques, and the evolution of her artwork over the years.
Featured artists: Ampersand Artist Partners
As the year wraps up, we wanted to highlight a few of the artists that graciously partnered with us over the year and shared their love of Ampersand with the world. We sent each of the December artists an Ampersand panel and one of our new 5x7 or Walnut Floaterframes. The task was to paint their artwork of choice and then frame it in the Floaterframe.
Featured artist: Vic Hollins
Inspired heavily by the desert, patterns, and color, Vic Hollins' illustrations are vibrant and complex. Cacti surround her bright red historic bungalow studio in downtown Tucson, AZ sparking her creativity.
Featured artist: Ali Cavanaugh
Ali Cavanaugh, who coined the term "Modern Fresco" to describe her work on Aquabord, has developed a process grounded in realism, but with spontaneous energy.
Featured artist: Timothy Joe
A self-taught, representational artist from the rural southern town of Greensboro, Alabama, Timothy Joe, creates art based on southern rural culture, family, and heritage themes.
Featured artist: Stephen Quiller
Colorado Aquabord artist, Stephen Quiller, introduces us to his gallery and discusses how his work is inspired by nature.
Featured artist: Amado M. Peña, Jr.
Amado Peña's art celebrates the strength of a people who meet the harsh realities of life in an uncompromising land and his work is a tribute to the Native Americans who survive by living in harmony with an adversarial, untamed environment. Amado’s artwork is defined by its bold color and form and dynamic composition.
Featured artist: Karen Vernon
We caught up with Ampersand Artist Ambassador Karen Vernon, a loyal Aquabord user, to find out about how she communicates through her watercolors.
Featured artist: Justin Vining
Justin Vining specializes in landscapes and cityscapes. He studied Art Education at Purdue University and taught elementary art for three years. Following his tenure as a teacher, Justin attended law school, where he rekindled his love for creating between classes and clerking. Shortly after graduating and passing the bar in 2010, Justin decided to pursue art full-time and hasn’t looked back.
Archiva-Seal™: Only by Ampersand
Ampersand's exclusive Archiva-Seal™ ensures paintings won’t yellow over time due to support-induced discoloration. Learn why this critical process makes Ampersand panels the most-trusted surface among artists.
Featured artist: Scott Gellatly
Ampersand Artist Ambassador Scott Gellatly is a landscape painter at heart, but his work has become more abstracted, with greater emphasis on pure color and gestural mark-making to evoke nature. As a plein air painter, Scott uses Ampersand Gessobord, Aquabord, and Pastelbord for his work.
Featured artist: Jennifer Redstreake Geary
Ampersand Artist Ambassador, Jennifer Redstreake Geary, both a full-time mom and full-time graphic designer is also a prolific artist who is highly sought after for her work in watercolor and pastel.