Joseph is a partner at SKA Design (an environmental graphics design
office) located in South Pasadena. He paints in the evenings and on
weekends and is a frequent demonstrator and workshop teacher around
Southern California.
He has produced paintings for a number of Pasadena events, including
the Bungalow Heaven Annual Tour, the Colorado Street Bridge Party, the
Pasadena Showcase House of Design, the California Art Club Artists for
Architecture Painting Project, the Pasadena Symphony and the Pasadena
Pops Orchestra. His work has been featured in the The Art of
Watercolor, a French art magazine as well as Studios magazine, and
Watercolor Artist magazine. His studio was featured in The Man Cave
Book.
His paintings have also been on the covers of a variety of publications
including Westways Magazine, Pasadena Magazine, a book series published
by the Historical Society of Southern California, and the Lost and
Found Series by Many Moons Press. In 2001 a book of his sketches
entitled Pasadena Sketchbook was published. The second edition was
published in October of 2008. A collection of sketches of the
University of Redlands entitled Redlands Sketchbook was published in
2007. Walter Foster Publishing published Expressive Color, a painting
instruction book, in August of 2008. He is currently working on a new
book for Quarto Publishing entitled Portfolio: Expressive Painting, and
pulling together a series of new paintings for the third edition of
Pasadena Sketchbook.
You can see his work at: josephstoddard.com