Stan Miller still remembers when he was seven or eight visiting a family friend in Wisconsin who was a watercolor artist. It was one of many early calls he felt to the artist career path. As a junior high student, he thought his dream of becoming a professional artist was impossible, but a college watercolor course reignited his passion. Though he didn't start using watercolor in earnest until part way through college when he switched from a Physical Education major to a Commercial Art major, he still counts that experience as one of the most influential in his life.

 

By 1976, he was teaching workshops and making a living as a professional artist. Now he considers helping students develop their skills as enjoyable as painting and loves paying forward his own love of watercolor.