Seksan Sing-on graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chulalongkorn University. He is teaching at the Vocational College, Chiang Mai Province. He is a teacher who has received certificates of honor for his contributions of art to Thai society. He is a teacher who has received awards as an outstanding teacher from various educational institutions. He also received the Outstanding Painting, Prototype Embroidery Award from the Bangkok Bank Foundation. In 2017,2019, he submitted a watercolor painting to join the Fabriano in Acquarello Fabriano. In 2024, he joined the Thailand Biennale 2023 International Watercolor Exhibition in Chiang Rai Province. JY. Please tell us about your inspiration for teaching art. SS. I was inspired by my father, who was a teacher. My father was a primary school teacher in a rural school. Since I was little, I have seen my father teach his students, generation after generation. I followed my father to his first assignment in Nam Yuen District, Ubon Ratchathani Province, which is an area bordering Cambodia. We had to fight with hardships. The school where my father was in was robbed by bandits, who gathered them together and hit them on the head with guns. I saw the lack of development and the people did not receive an education. Later, my father asked to be transferred back to be a teacher at home. I saw my father's dedication and sacrifice. He intended to teach his students to have knowledge and skills in various subjects. Many of my father's students were successful, were civil servants, do business, do farming, had stable careers, were able to change their lives for the better, helped develop their villages to be more prosperous, and came back to help build temples, build schools, etc. My father was therefore an inspiration and a role model in the teaching profession. When I was in primary school, I liked drawing, and the teacher often asked me to help draw in the classroom and draw for my seniors and friends. The teacher praised my beautiful drawings, so my father recommended that I should continue studying art. I enrolled in a vocational certificate program in fine arts at Ubon Ratchathani Vocational College and continued my studies for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in International Painting from Chulalongkorn University. In 1995, I was accepted as a teacher in the Fine Arts Department at Chiang Mai Vocational College. Throughout my tenure as a teacher, I have felt love and pride in using my knowledge and skills to my advantage. I intend to continue my father’s idea that teachers are givers who will help provide knowledge, experience, work, and life. I hope that my students will be successful in their careers, be able to do their best, and continue their education at a higher level. They will be the seedlings of art that grow, flourish, and have quality, and can live beautifully and securely in society from generation to generation. JY. What were your reasons for choosing the difficulty of watercolors? Please provide examples of your impressions of past works. SS. The starting point for choosing to use watercolor techniques is that it is a technique that must be taught to students regularly every semester. You have to experiment and demonstrate to students regularly. You are familiar with using watercolors. You are impressed by the brightness, beauty, and speed of watercolors. I started learning to use watercolors at the same time as the first generation of students I taught. The colors used were student grade colors. The paper used was 100-pound paper or 300 grams. Until I had the opportunity to enter a national competition and received an award. Since then, I have created works to enter many competitions and received awards continuously until they are well-known by the general public. I also got to know many artists who recommended that I try using artist- grade colors and paper. I tried them and the colors were more beautiful and of higher quality. It was accepted and I was invited to create works to be exhibited both nationally and internationally continuously. JY. In the past, teaching and working on art, what ideas would you like to share with our readers both in Thailand and abroad? SS. Throughout my life working in art most of the time, I work with two techniques at the same time: watercolor and oil painting. However, as an art teacher whose regular job is teaching students, I only have time to work on art during my free time from teaching or on weekends. However, what I think is more than that is that I can share my knowledge and experience in art with my students. I have created quality teaching materials, used them to train students, and supported them to submit their work to competitions, often winning regional and national awards. JY. How is the use of watercolor in modern art different from its use in the past? SS . When comparing the creation of watercolor works in the present and the past, there are many differences, especially in terms of the quality of materials, equipment , such as paint, paper, and supplementary materials that are of higher quality. This allows artists in the later era to create higher quality works, including having a variety of examples of study work that are published through new communication channels.