Denver Voyager Online Interview - November 2020
There would be those first moments in a conversation when someone would say to me, “What do you do?” and I didn’t know what to say.
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Take-Five with Jana L. Bussanich Art
Question: “How do you get into the painting mindset?”
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I try to 🛑 for 5-minutes and do nothing. No music. No phone. No input. No output. Just breathing. Try as I might, this is often how it goes.
A Lesson in Constraint
...working under constraint underscores my lifelong experience to express as my artist-self, in finding my voice...I chose this series of paintings to share with this post because they are paintings done under constraint. They represent what part of my artist's journey feels like to me.
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In Painting, The Conditions Will Never Be Perfect.
A morning monologue about waiting for the right moment to make our work and a little about the color red. The conditions for making a painting are never perfect. If they had to be, the work would never get done....
Emergence of Being: This Thing, it lives inside you.
The thing – your art – is living inside you, and it’s demanding something from you. It wants to be seen or heard or acknowledged in some way. It’s pushing from the inside out. And there’s this internal wrestling match...
Learning about Gelli printing from Sprovtsoff Studios
Today we hosted a workshop by Tasha Sprovtsoff with the goal of using her Gelli print process to create a ground for watercolor painting. I made this print with a layer of Golden’s transparent watercolor ground, Daniel Smith’s Cadmium red,...
Gelli Printing with Tasha from Sprovtsoff Studios
We’re in the studio today experimenting with Gelli printing as a ground for watercolor painting.
Seeing Color As Value In Design
Jana L Bussanich teaches watercolor technique and color theory in Colorado Springs, CO I’m finishing up coursework offered by artist and painter Nicholas Wilton, founder of the Art2Life and Creative Visionary Programs. We painted in acrylics during the course, which...
Chinatown, London: Lifted
Do you ever feel like your art is asking to be more, but you’re not sure what “more” could mean? Well, my work has been in transition this year, and this piece, Lifted, marks a new direction for me in...
Emergence of Being
JANA L BUSSANICH ARTIST – Studio Notes October 20, 2019 It was around 2008-2009 when I first began to self-identify as an artist. I was talking about myself as an artist sort of secretly. There would be those first moments...
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