Last month, the National Watercolor Society(NWS) announced the winners of its 87th Annual Exhibition. You can see the show through December 9, 2007 at the Brea Cultural Center. Or, catch the Travel Show when it passes through a town near you. Jurors selected 100 winning paintings from almost 1,200 entries, representing artists from every state and several foreign countries.

The winner of the Watercolor Magic Magazine Award was Jacqueline Clark of Florida. Her Homage to Degas (22x23) is shown here.

One way to to see all of the winning paintings is to order an exhibition catalog--we just got ours and it's luscious. You'll find a Watercolor Magic contributor on the cover: Nicholas Simmons won the NWS Purchase Award, with Silver Star for his painting Fresh Sushi.