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My Story 


 I've been making art all my life, I just can't stop! As far back into childhood as I can remember, I was making art.  I would sit in my room for hours drawing tanks, soldiers, birds, people, whatever.    My parents noticed, of course, and started getting me my own art supplies and even a drafting board to work on.  That was it, I was hooked. As I got older, my grandparents began taking me around to the art galleries of Scottsdale, Arizona.  They collected watercolor paintings, so I got to go to a number of show openings and meet the watercolor artists.  Soon, I was teaching myself to paint with watercolors.  I began with Zoltan Szabo's Landscape Painting book and worked my way through the exercises.  I still own that book, as dog-eared and beat up as it is, and refer to it as I teach my own students.  

When it came time to decide on a career, it was a no-brainer.  I was to be an artist.  I went to undergraduate school at the University of Arizona and then moved on to graduate school at the University of Delaware.  Soon afterward, I found myself working as an artist in Portland, Oregon and teaching art at Willamette University.  Today, I live back in Phoenix, Arizona with my wife Marla and son Liam.  I teach art to junior high and high school students and love my job. Teaching young people is the absolute best.  

I also practice painting every day and exhibit my work. My paintings reflect the beauty and mystery of the American southwest.  I love the light of the west and how it carves out mountains and valleys. I tend to work in a tonalism style of painting, with an effort to infuse the images with a sense of mood and atmosphere.  

Bruce Black Age 5 Christmas 1970
Bruce Black Chilling out on a cool evening.
Bruce Black, Marla Black, Sunshine Trimble
Bruce Black and Marla Black
Bruce, Marla, and Liam in Arizona
Marla Black in La Jolla CA
Portrait of Bruce Black in La Jolla CA
Family photo in La Jolla CA
Bruce Black in Aspen CO
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