Randy Emmons
Watercolor Artist
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Randy Emmons NWWS
Randy grew up in Monterey, CA, painting through his youth. He just wanted to be an “artist.” He attended a small college in Santa Maria CA, that had two very talented watercolorist teaching art.
In 1966 Vietnam was raging, and there was a draft, so he joined the Navy, fell in love, married and ended up spending 23 years as a Naval Photographer, then a Photojournalist and ended up a Naval Photographic Officer. In 1990 he retired to Whidbey Island.
While working at the Coupeville Arts Center as their Marketing person, Randy decided to start painting watercolors again. “I love watercolors.”For him watercolors shine!
“When it is laid down in a painterly manner, they are a visual magnet for me,” he says. “I don’t believe any other medium forces a painter to work with what the paint wants to do the way watercolor does. It runs, bleeds, mixes and separates on its own.”
Randy loves the images of the Northwest and tries to bring design, color, and style into an appealing representation of local subjects.
“I still have so much to learn and so many artworks to create,” he notes. “It’s been a long journey from my Monterey childhood to my Island home, but I feel a connection to the kid who always believed he would someday become an “Artist.”
Randy is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and points out that he owes a lot to Ann Wilson for mentoring his way back to his love for watercolor. “She was always there to give a critique, and morale support. And a special thanks to Master Watercolorist Frank Webb, who critiqued my work while in far off places.
Randy grew up in Monterey, CA, painting through his youth. He just wanted to be an “artist.” He attended a small college in Santa Maria CA, that had two very talented watercolorist teaching art.
In 1966 Vietnam was raging, and there was a draft, so he joined the Navy, fell in love, married and ended up spending 23 years as a Naval Photographer, then a Photojournalist and ended up a Naval Photographic Officer. In 1990 he retired to Whidbey Island.
While working at the Coupeville Arts Center as their Marketing person, Randy decided to start painting watercolors again. “I love watercolors.”For him watercolors shine!
“When it is laid down in a painterly manner, they are a visual magnet for me,” he says. “I don’t believe any other medium forces a painter to work with what the paint wants to do the way watercolor does. It runs, bleeds, mixes and separates on its own.”
Randy loves the images of the Northwest and tries to bring design, color, and style into an appealing representation of local subjects.
“I still have so much to learn and so many artworks to create,” he notes. “It’s been a long journey from my Monterey childhood to my Island home, but I feel a connection to the kid who always believed he would someday become an “Artist.”
Randy is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and points out that he owes a lot to Ann Wilson for mentoring his way back to his love for watercolor. “She was always there to give a critique, and morale support. And a special thanks to Master Watercolorist Frank Webb, who critiqued my work while in far off places.
