Brian Blood, a resident of Pebble Beach, California, is one of California's important plein air impressionist artists.

He began his professional life as a graphic artist and art director in Boston, Massachusetts. Although Blood's career was successful, he was frustrated personally and realized he wanted to be a fine-art painter. A leap across the continent to California took him to the Academy of Art College in San Francisco for both undergraduate and graduate studies. In 2003, Blood and his artist wife, Laurie Kersey, were both teachers at the Academy of Art College. In 2006 Blood was awarded a "Doctor of Humane Letters" from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

From the 1990s, Brian Blood has be...