Brian Blood at Pitzer's Fine Arts

Brian Blood

Brian Blood, is widely recognized as one of California’s most important plein air impressionist artists.
He began his professional life as a graphic artist and art director in Boston, Massachusetts. Although Blood's career was successful, he was frustrated personally and realized he wanted to be a fine-art painter. A leap across the continent to California took him to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for both undergraduate and graduate studies. In 2003, Blood and his artist wife, Laurie Kersey, were both teachers at the Academy of Art College.

From the 1990s, Brian Blood has been painting full time as well as conducting landscape painting classes at his alma mater. "I love the look on young people's faces when they begin to understand the thrill of painting outdoors," he says with great satisfaction.
Primarily a plein-air painter, Blood creates hundreds of studies directly from nature, observing the ever changing light of day. He then takes his studies and supporting reference photos back to his studio to paint, using these studies as the basis for his larger scale works.

Blood has had his work featured in articles in Southwest Art Magazine (May 2002, and March 2005); Art of The West Magazine (March/April 2004); American Artist Magazine (January 2004); Plein Air Magazine (December 2005); and The Central Coast Journal (October 2005); to name a few.