This 2-day class will focus on painting the figure expressively in watercolor. Janice will emphasize composition, value, and connecting all parts of the painting by “crossing the lines.” Mini Lessons will include topics such as drawing eyes and lips, using color for mood and feeling, using value for visual impact and taking photos for good portraits. Students may copy the demo painting or bring their own source material to work from.

 

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Experience Level:  Intermediate to advanced students.

 

Janice Cipriani-Willis

Janice Cipriani-Willis is an accomplished watercolorist who lives and works at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula. She began her art education by earning a B.A. in Fine Arts from California State University, Los Angeles. At that time she worked in acrylics and used a loom to weave multimedia sculptures. Her style was exclusively nonrepresentational abstraction. She exhibited and sold her work via the L.A. ArtCore gallery.

 Traveling and observation have inspired Janice Cipriani-Willis to find and express in watercolor the subtle and often obscure beauty she finds in the places and faces she has seen. She sees the pieces of light that play over forms as a marvelous mosaic. In her watercolors (in which the lightest light is the white of the paper) she rearranges these bits of light into an image of the world’s beauty.

 Janice’s current work has been inspired by watching people from all walks of life in situations that engender a range of human emotions. She focuses on the depth of expression seen in their faces.

 In 2014 Janice was awarded Signature Status in the National Watercolor Society. She is also a Signature member of Watercolor West, having been accepted many times into the Watercolor West show. She has studied with artists including Don Andrews, Gerald Brommer, Frank Francese, Fealing Lin, Ted Nuttall and Frank Webb.

 Original works and giclee reproductions are available and can be seen by appointment at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, at the Brandon Art Gallery, Fallbrook, California, and at the web site http://www.fallbrookbrandongallery.org/brandongalleryartist/janice-cipriani-willis.

 

                                                               

 

Non Members Fee: $175.00 Members Fee: $150.00