Bernard Dellario earned a bachelor’s degree from Kings College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania with emphasis on finance and art history.  He studied Art at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia and attended several workshops with nationally known artists.  Since 2003 he has been a member and current President of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, one of the oldest active artist organizations in the Washington area.

Bernard teaches painting classes through several venues, has won national awards, and exhibits throughout the Maryland Eastern Shore and Washington, DC region.

Brad Ross studied Visual Communications/Illustration at Montgomery College, in Rockville and then at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore where he graduated with a BFA in 1991.   Between 1994 and 1995 he took evening and summer classes at the Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore. Over the years he has gained priceless drawing and painting knowledge, learning from nationally and internationally known artists like Carolyn Anderson, Tim Bell, George Strickland,  Abigail McBride and Teresa Oaxaca, as well as through three decades of independent study and research.

He is an award winning Plein Air painter and popular drawing and painting instructor.