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Yong Chen hails from Taishan, a town in the Guangdong province of China. Yong began drawing and painting at the age of four. He began sharing and teaching watercolor painting techniques with friends when he was 13, and had continued while studying at college in China.

Before Yong came to the United States, he was a high school art teacher for five years. After immigrating to the United States in 1989, Yong studied Graphic Design at Bunker Hill Community College and Illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art. This is where he decided to use watercolor as his illustrating medium. Since 1995 he has illustrated many children's books and children's magazines. Publishers of his work include: Little, Brown and Company, HarperCollins, Boyds Mills Press, Spider, Cricket, and AppleSeeds.

Yong has been teaching Illustration, Watercolor Painting and Watercolor Portraiture classes and workshops at the Massachusetts College of Art and Bunker Hill Community College. Yong constantly strives to improve his personal style and watercolor painting skills, in the same time, to share his techniques through his online learning center.

"Painting is my life-long passion. Painting is a means for me to express the emotions I find in the relationships of people and nature."

Yong Chen hails from Taishan, a town in the Guangdong province of China. Yong began drawing and painting at the age of four. He began sharing and teaching watercolor painting techniques with friends when he was 13, and had continued while studying at college in China. Before Yong came to the United States, he was a high school art teacher for five years. After immigrating to the United States in... More