Upcoming Events...

20th Annual Yellow Barn Instructor Exhibition

This annual exhibition showcases the versatility and talent of instructors from the Yellow Barn Studio, Glen Echo Park's painting and drawing residency. These works range from still life to abstract. Each one of these artists has distinguished themselves as both a master artist and a master teacher. The Yellow Barn Studio is a flourishing center for drawing, painting, printmaking, and art history at Glen Echo Park. Founded twenty-five years ago, the Yellow Barn Studio is now one of the largest painting centers in the Washington D.C. area, thanks to the outstanding instructors whose works are on display in this online exhibition. Through their talent and love of teaching, they have built the reputation of the Yellow Barn Studio as the place to study art. The selection of works highlights what Yellow Barn studio prides itself on-- the diverse philosophies of our faculty.

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Friends of the Yellow Barn Drawing & Watermedia Show

The Friends of the Yellow Barn Studio welcome you to the Drawing & Water Media Exhibition. Sept 5th - Dec. 1st

This year, the Drawing Show has expanded to include all water-based media. This exhibition recognizes the importance of exceptional drawing skills and impressive use of water-based media. The variety of media includes: color pencil, charcoal, graphite, ink, watercolor, gouache, and mixed media.
Another part of this exciting show is that you, the viewer, has the opportunity to choose two of your favorite works: one for an instructor and one for a Member of the Friends. Voting will be open through October 5. A People’s Choice award of $250 will be given to both of the winning artists. The winners will be highlighted in the gallery show through the end of the show.

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Loudoun Sketch Club Online Show & Sale

The Colors of Summer

2020 Art Show and Sale

Each year, our club hosts an onsite annual member art show. This year, our plans were altered. But our love of creating art was not. Please take this time to enjoy viewing the images of Summer and scape back to those carefree days of this magnificent season.

All artwork is for sale. Please contact the artist for purchase information by clicking on the artist’s name.

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About Lis...

What I do

I believe there is nothing that this pigment in its precision pointed stick, can’t do or that oil paint could do better. My competitive nature is out to prove that. I still approach my work like a painter. Layering in the old-school oil painterly way. Never striving for photo-realism, I love to see the artist’s hand in work. Like that perfect, genius brush stroke in a master’s painting, you will see all of my pencil marks, if possible. I want to inspire. Not only with what a media can do, but what a person can do. After all, a well-trained artist is a person who can do anything.

Recent Awards

(partial list, click on Resume/CV for full listing)

2019 1st & 3rd place in Drawing at the 75th Annual Waterford Fair Fine Art Exhibit

2019 Featured Artist on the Colored Pencil for Beginners & Beyond FB page

2019 Blue Ribbon for "Best Celebration of Flight", FPAC "Feathers & Kites" Exhibit

2019 Hudson Valley Art Assoc. 86th Annual Juried Exhibit

2019 Juried into CP Treasures VI book

2018 awarded "Best Loudoun Artist", 1st place in Drawing & 1st place in Mixed Media, 74th Annual Waterford Fine Art Exhibit

2018 Finalist in the 10th Annual Expressions Portraiture competition

2018 2nd place Kensington (Best in Show) category, Kensington Labor Day Show

2018 received Signature Status with CPCAU

2018 1st place Friends' Choice Award at FPAC Summer Challenge exhibit

2018 2nd place in TheArtList's National monthly competition

2018 juried into the Hill Center's Regional Juried Exhibition

2018 1st Place, Drawing, 2nd Place, Portraiture & Honorable Mention, Mixed Media, 43rd Annual Woman's Club of Chevy Chase Show

2017 1st Place, Drawing, 73rd annual Waterford Fine Art Exhibit

2017 1st Place, Manhattan Arts Int'l. HERStory Exhibition
2017 CPSA's Explore This! 13, earning CPX Signature status
2016 1st place, Artful Living Show, Fairfax Art Festival

2015 Kamen Grand Prize at the Wheaton Arts Festival
2015 1st Place CPSA DC Metro Chapter 109 Members Show
2015 Best in Show FPAC's Gifts from the Sea exhibit
2015 Best in Show Purcellville 2nd Annual Juried Art Show
2014 First Place, portraiture, MAA Kensington Labor Day Show

This is my Bio

Lis Zadravec’s extraordinary and inspirational award-winning artwork, created primarily in colored pencil, expresses poignant human expression. Her subjects reveal themselves with their vulnerabilities and their strengths. The artist’s innate skills are combined with superb detail and composition, masterful treatment of facial features and hands, a myriad of textures, and articulated light and shadow. Her style is reminiscent of the masterful illustrations and paintings of generations past. She demonstrates an uncanny ability to master her medium.

To read her full list of awards, artist statement and Resume CV, click below.

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In print & publications...

Color Magazine Featured Cover Artist

In this 6 page feature article " Brilliant Moments in Private Worlds" I discuss my subject, Journey and Medium choices. And in the end, why I do what I do. "My narrative portraits often reflect my philosophy that who we become in life is a direct result of the adversity we battle." I am truly honored to have this full artist profile article and magazine cover placement.

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CP Treasures VI

I am honored to have my work chosen once again to be In CP Treasures VI, Colored Pencil Masterworks From Around The Globe. Included are artworks by artists from the USA, UK, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, China, England, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, Greece, Spain and India. It's now available for purchase as hardcopy or download here: http://annkullberg.com/products/cp-treasures-volume-vi. On every page you'll get the inside scoop on an artist's progression while they offer tips, advice and inspiration. Get your copy by clicking on the image or link below.

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CPCAU, Signature Artist

I am honored to be selected amongst a great international group of artists to be recognized as a Signature Member of the Coloured Pencil Community of Australasia, Inc. Click on image to see my page on their site.

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