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....
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...
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,...
We’re in the studio today experimenting with Gelli printing as a ground for watercolor painting.
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...
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...
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...
The Art of Play How do you relate or respond to this idea of play when making your art? I often hear this phrase, but what does it really mean? I feel a bit like a fraud when I apply...
Debunking a Myth A little note about talent - it's an entry point, a clue about natural ability, personal interest, and aptitude. Once talent is exhausted, hard work might be the most defining characteristic of the successful artist. To the...
I was in Littleton with two of our four grandchildren yesterday when the STEM School shooting was taking place in Highlands Ranch, just 2.8 miles from our daughter's home. The older two grandchildren were at their school, on lockdown, unaware...
