Larry Cannon:
How did you get started and then develop your career?
Larry: I was initially inspired by Saturday morning PBS watercolor programs and then by a book by Australian watercolorist Robert Wade. Fully hooked, I devoured multiple plein air painting videos by David Curtis and Joseph Zbukvic.
After that, I learned much more and built my career around painting in over forty plein air juried events including Sonoma, Carmel, Sedona, Telluride, Estes Park and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Invitational, and by challenging myself by exhibiting with predominantly oil painters in the California Art Club, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association and the Society of Marine Artist.
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How do you describe success?
Larry: I was very fortunate to be accepted early into an All California, All Medium exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art. That experience of painting and competing with oil painters and exhibiting in a major art museum set my goals for the coming years. I have been exceedingly fortunate in achieving those goals as my watercolors have been shown in over forty-five all-media museum exhibitions including; San Diego Museum of Art, Autry Museum of The American West, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Mystic Seaport Museum, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Laguna Museum of Art, Los Angeles Natural History Museum and Napa Valley Museum.
