Pomm's Watercolor Institute
The story behind
the artist.
How Pomm became a fine artist โ the teachers who shaped her, the masters she studied, and the one philosophy that runs through every painting.
Pomm shares her origin story, her influences, and what she's really trying to do with every piece.
Pomm means apple in French.
Her mother dropped the final "e." And in every painting Pomm has ever made, there's a tiny apple hidden somewhere โ a quiet signature only her collectors know to look for.
Find the applePomm didn't invent her method alone.
She studied โ deeply โ under teachers and masters across centuries. Every technique you'll learn from her carries that lineage.
Scott Moore
The artist who first taught Pomm the layering technique that became the foundation of her watercolor work โ soft layer over soft layer, building luminous color while keeping every stroke transparent.
Rubens, Caravaggio & the Renaissance Academy
Pomm studied the way the old masters were trained โ composition, perspective, one-directional lighting, the discipline of really learning to see. Caravaggio's light and shadow shaped how she handles depth in every piece she paints today.
Norman Rockwell
The artist who taught Pomm that technique is only half of painting. The other half is knowing exactly who is in your picture, where they came from, and what they're feeling. Without that, a painting is dead.
"If you don't know your subject, your painting is dead."
A story Pomm read about Norman Rockwell as a young artist โ and the principle she's painted by ever since.
Rockwell's teacher asked him what he was painting. He said, "A little boy on the beach." His teacher pushed back. "If you don't know exactly what that boy's life is like โ who his parents are, how many fish he caught that day โ you're a mortician. He has no life. He's dead."
That's what I'm trying to do in every painting. Even if it's just a window. Who was just there? Why is the rose still fresh? What's the feeling? If I haven't put that in, the painting hasn't done its job.
โ Pomm, on the philosophy that runs through her work
If a painting can give someone joy โ that's the whole job.
"I want my paintings to give you the best joy that you can have in life." That's how Pomm ended the video. It's also why the Institute exists โ to pass that same intention into the work of every student who walks through it.
When we speak on your call, we'll talk about where you are with watercolor right now, what you're hoping to create, and whether the Institute is the right fit. No pressure, no script โ just a real conversation.
โ See you on the call
