Current Shows:
Eastside Artists' Gallery
Members Area Show
February 4th - 26th
Eastside Artists' Gallery
313 E. Patrick Street,
Frederick, MD 21701
Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm
or by appointment.
FCAA Members Exhibit at District Arts
February 1st - 26th
15 N Market St
Frederick, MD 21701
Wed–Thu, 12–6pm; Fri-Sat 11am-6pm; Sun, 11am–5pm
Meet the Artists, Sat., Feb 11th 5:00-8:00pm
Am I the Featured Artist at your next event?
A Live Demo and Q&A at Eastside Artists' Gallery. Watch this video!
MAA's Winter Frost & Snow Exhibit @Windridge Winery
Jan 18th - Apr. 16th, 2023
Windridge Winery
15700 Darnestown Rd.,
Darnestown, MD
Meet the Artists & Jazz Night, Thurs., Feb 9th 6-9:00pm
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MAA's Member Show at the Benjamin Gaither Center
Jan 20th - Mar 26th, 2023
Windridge Winery
80-A Bureau Dr.,
Gaithersburg, MD
Mon-Thurs 8:30am-6, Fri 8:30-4pm
About Lis...
In print & publications...
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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.
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.
Lis is a Member of...
Signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, National & Local chapter 109, and the Coloured Pencil Community of Australasia, Inc. As well as holding membership in the Portrait Society of America, Montgomery Art Association, former President of the Loudoun Sketch Club, Faculty at the Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery and a member of Frederick County Art Association and Arts Council.
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.
