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Fakes and Forgeries Opening 2021
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Denver Voyager Online Interview - November 2020
Take-Five with Jana L. Bussanich Art
A Lesson in Constraint
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,...
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...