Thomas W. Schaller is an award-winning artist, architect, and author based in Los Angeles. As a renowned architectural artist, he received a Graham Foundation Grant and was a two-time recipient of the Hugh Ferris Memorial Prize. He has authored three books; the best-selling, and AIA award winner, Architecture in Watercolor (VNR – McGraw Hill) The Art of Architectural Drawing . (J.Wiley and Sons), and Thomas W. Schaller, Architect of Light : Watercolor Paintings by a Master (F+W Media: Penguin /Random House ) Artist Network Television has produced two best-selling series of instructional Videos and DVDs of his technique and Streamline Video published a best-selling video in 2020 “The Power of Design”. He is releasing a 12-month online curriculum of courses in 2021 with Terracotta LLC, “Design and the Power of Imagination”. He is in demand world-wide as speaker, presenter, writer, exhibitor, instructor, and juror in the fields of fine art and architectural representation.
His work is collected world-wide and is part of a number of permanent arts collections including The Johhan Museum: Shanghai: The Watermark Museum; Fabriano: The Tchoban Foundation; Berlin: The Pacific Arts Foundation; Newport Beach, The Museum of Watercolor, Mexico City. His artwork has been featured in prestigious International Watercolor Masters exhibitions in over twenty five countries including The International Masters of Watercolor Alliance, China; First Annual Universal Watercolor Exposition, Shanghai; International Watercolor Masters ,UK ;Three Modern Masters Exhibition with John Salminen and Dean Mitchell;Bradenton, Florida: Fabriano in Aquarello ,Italy 2016-21; Marché d’Acqua, Fabriano 2021: The Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club NYC: Master Exhibition of Watercolor; Johhan Museum of Art, Shanghai; Steiglitz Museum, St, Petersburg and in the USA in exhibitions of The American Watercolor Society, The National Watercolor Society, The Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Architecture in Perspective, among many others. He has been a featured presenter at the Plein-Air Conference PACE in San Diego, and Watercolor Live 2021, the Roman Watercolor Society, The National Watercolor Society, the California Art Club, The Tchoban Museum, Berlin, and the Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow.
In 2021 Tom was a finalist in the Architizer One Drawing Competition and the Splash Annual Art Competition. In 2019, he was awarded the Abu Rawash Master Award and in 2017, was a finalist for the Lynx Prize for Contemporary Art; Trieste. His paintings and writing have been featured in a great many books, magazines, and arts publications including The Artist Magazine, Watercolor Artist Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, The Art of Watercolour, Practique des Arts, Los Angeles Magazine, International Artist Magazine, and a series of the books, Splash: the Best of Watercolor by North Light Books from 2011 – 2021.
A Signature Member of many arts organizations including the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association, and Transparent Watercolor Society of America. He was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of American Watercolor , Streamline Media, Terracotta LLC, elected Artist Member of the California Art Club and the Salmagundi Art Club, NYC, the International Masters of Watercolor Alliance. A member of the American Institute of Architects, he is also president emeritus of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators and a founding member of the group; North American Watercolor Artists.
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Founded in 1986 in the United States, the ASAI is comprised of professional illustrators, architects, designers, teachers, students, corporations, and anyone engaged in the serious pursuit of architectural illustration. The central purpose of ASAI remains the improvement of architectural drawing worldwide.
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