John Allan Kendall was born on leap day, February 29th, 1944 in Nashua New Hampshire and grew up in a nearby town called Litchfield. He graduated from Alvirne High School in Hudson, New Hampshire in 1962 and from the University of New Hampshire four years later with a degree in Art Education. He taught 1st – 12th grade art in both Sunapee and New London, New Hampshire for three years before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from San Francisco State College in 1972 with a MA degree in Creative Arts. Kendall developed the technique he calls “ Sepia Pen & Ink Wash Drawings “ while completing his Master’s project at the houseboat community in Sausalito, California. Sepia brown ink seemed to capture the warmth and feeling of the area. The early experience of living at this houseboat community, for six years, among the old ferryboats and riverboats, certainly helped the artist years later in the field of Marine Art. The artist spent untold hours studying how the water reflected on the mudflats as his AFrame went up & down with the tides out behind the old Charles Van Damme ferry. Years later, in his Tall Ship series, the artist enjoyed taking on the challenge of capturing the movement of a constantly changing sea. Still photographs taken out on the North Sea at events such as Sail Amsterdam were interpreted by the artist in such detail as to make the viewer of his works think that they might actually be there. Hundreds of hours of both studying the research photos and drawing every little twist & turn of the sea while looking through a large magnifying glass helped to give the artist the realism he wanted.

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