Lis Zadravec

The Mansion Gallery offers the opportunity to view this dance inspired artwork in the beautiful, timeless setting of this historic estate. Featured artist, Allen Bentley. Work by Lis Zadravec and 7 other artists also on display. Reception open to the public, Saturday, January 25th, 1-3pm.

The Metro DC Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America is having an exhibit at the Arts Barn which will run Nov 22, 2019 - Jan 27, 2020.  The gallery is located at 311 Kent Square RD, Gaithersburg, MD.  Works will be juried into the show by Allen Bentley, who will select a total of 35 pieces. Look for the next show with CPSA109 at the Arts Club of Washington, DC coming up in February, which will also include artwork by Lis. Reception open to the public, Friday, February 7th, 6:30-8:30pm. 

Join us as we Celebrate the Season throughout December at the Greenhouse Studio at Oatlands with a show of Artwork by the Instructors of this newest art venue for classes in Loudoun. The Artwork will be hanging through January.

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.

I was asked to write this blog post on Ann Kullberg's Color magazine website, reminding us to pursue our art in hardships ... "No matter who rejects you. No matter that they say colored pencil is not a traditionally accepted media. No matter that no one gets your point of view, your humor, or the stories you are drawing. No matter that someone will always be better than you. You can after all, keep striving to improve, to get accepted even though, to make people see your story. To get better at hands and mouths because a portrait doesn’t have to be a picture with any flaws."

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.

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.

(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

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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Signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, national & local District Chapter 109, Signature member of  the Coloured Pencil Community of Australasia Inc. As well as holding membership in The Portrait Society of America, Montgomery Art Association, Loudoun Sketch Club, Faculty of Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, Loudoun Arts Council & the Loudoun Artisan Trail. Art Advisory Committee of Loudoun.

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