High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Norman Wilkinson CBE aka Norman L. Wilkinson (November 24, 1878 - May 31, 1971) was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolors and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but he was also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. It is commonly claimed that, during World War I, it was he who first proposed the use of disruptive coloration in naval camouflage, for which he coined the well-known term dazzle painting or dazzle camouflage.