Lis Zadravec Rodriguez
classes & camps, murals & commissioned artwork
lisarts.com
phone:(703)404-2977 email: info@lisarts.com
classes & camps, murals & commissioned artwork
lisarts.com
phone:(703)404-2977 email: info@lisarts.com
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Stifel & Capra "Art and Ornament for your Wonderful Life"
www.stifelandcapra.com
260 West Broad Street. Falls Church VA 22046
Shop: 703-533-3557 Direct: 703-407-0770
Register Now... a few spaces left!
also...
Fall 2010 ART Classes (click here)
Now Posted!!!
New Link www.beyondARTseminars.com
career building for the professional Fine Artist
Work shown at....
Stifel & Capra "Art and Ornament for your Wonderful Life"
www.stifelandcapra.com
260 West Broad Street. Falls Church VA 22046
Shop: 703-533-3557 Direct: 703-407-0770
Lisa Zadravec Rodriguez
Portrait of an Artist
There is an alive-ness to Lis' work which makes her subjects seem to want to step right
out of their frames! While her first expertise is in using oils, she has perfected a technique
using colored pencils that amazes even the manufacturers. Lis is actually using the
Maroger oil painting technique she was trained in, but rendering the work in colored
pencils and other media. As both media are wax based, the result has the same
translucent, realistic effect as the traditional portraits she loves. But as always, she is
innovative in her approach to materials and even surfaces. Born in Washington DC, Lis
began taking art classes at age four. By 10, she was studying in the adult program at the
Corcoran School of Art. On the collegiate level, she studied again at the Corcoran as well
as at American University, Montgomery College and with artists of the DC Color School.
Respected for her teaching as well as her artwork, Ms. Rodriguez co-founded Crossroads
School of the Arts in Northern Virginia, and has taught in venues in Northern Virginia to
children through the adult level in venues from elementary school level through college.
Her personal goal is, she says, "We all have been given the directive to multiply our gifts. I
can think of no better way than to share mine while watching more art be created than I'd
ever be able to do myself." Lis has raised two children, built her teaching business & a
school. She has ambitions in both her artwork and writing projects.
Portrait of an Artist
There is an alive-ness to Lis' work which makes her subjects seem to want to step right
out of their frames! While her first expertise is in using oils, she has perfected a technique
using colored pencils that amazes even the manufacturers. Lis is actually using the
Maroger oil painting technique she was trained in, but rendering the work in colored
pencils and other media. As both media are wax based, the result has the same
translucent, realistic effect as the traditional portraits she loves. But as always, she is
innovative in her approach to materials and even surfaces. Born in Washington DC, Lis
began taking art classes at age four. By 10, she was studying in the adult program at the
Corcoran School of Art. On the collegiate level, she studied again at the Corcoran as well
as at American University, Montgomery College and with artists of the DC Color School.
Respected for her teaching as well as her artwork, Ms. Rodriguez co-founded Crossroads
School of the Arts in Northern Virginia, and has taught in venues in Northern Virginia to
children through the adult level in venues from elementary school level through college.
Her personal goal is, she says, "We all have been given the directive to multiply our gifts. I
can think of no better way than to share mine while watching more art be created than I'd
ever be able to do myself." Lis has raised two children, built her teaching business & a
school. She has ambitions in both her artwork and writing projects.
| Our Walk, oil on canvas 36 x 48" |
| Poppies & Butterflies after Monet, VanGogh & Potter, little girl's bedroom |
| Gallery Shop Now Open The Technique of the Masters If you don't learn all that went before you can't move forward. apprentices. Techniques died with them. As art moved into the 20th century many techniques of the great masters had been completely lost. I am fortunate that in the lineage from artist to teacher I am not only just a few generations directly from great masters at the Smithsonian, but that those before me had a great passion to rediscover the methods and media of such greats as the 17th century Dutch & Flemish painters. With this classical training and a curiosity of materials, I have brought the methods forward; making a less-toxic form of the wax-based medium I learned to paint with. Or trying the same techniques in wax-based pencils. I have developed, like all artists, a personal style and method. But even as I draw in colored pencil, I find myself unsatisfied unless I render the skin to look like skin; translucent In the old days, artists had studio secrets, only passed to their also, I love to experiment and am sure that with the right technique, and understanding of materials, artists should accomplish even better work than what has gone before, as we keep striving forward. |
| Fathers & Sons, colored pencil & gouache 21 x 22" |
| Circus Paris, watercolor 9 x 11". |
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