Washington Square, 33" x 37"
2010 Skyledge (Gold) Award, TWSA
2010 Skyledge (Gold) Award, TWSA
John Salminen is the first artist to be featured in a new series I'll be posting periodically starting this week -- American Watercolor Masters.
[Editor's note: I have featured a number of very accomplished watercolorists over the past two years who would certainly qualify as American Masters. This new series is in no way intended to disregard or downplay their considerable accomplishments.]
John is a prolific painter, with signature memberships in numerous art societies, including the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, The Watercolor USA Honor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Allied Artist and Watercolor West. In addition, he has been honored with Master Status in TWSA and inclusion in the American Watercolor Society’s Dolphin Fellowship, and he is an honorary member of the Jiangsu Watercolor Research Institute in China. He has won more than 190 awards in both national and international exhibitions and frequently serves as a juror for national shows.
Cable Car, 25" x 24.5" The majority of John's work involves urban landscapes. Ranging from San Francisco to the Chicago Loop to Greenwich Village to rainy Paris to Shanghai, his subjects are consistently presented in dynamic compositions and his ability to set a mood with color, light and tone is unsurpassed.
City of Light, 24" x 35.5" 
Paris Bookstalls, 30" x 36" 
Champs Elysees, 25" x 25" 
Shanghai Alley, 24" x 35.5"Please visit John's website to see a full gallery of his work and get details of his workshop schedule.
