 Jane Paul Angelhart
Jane Paul Angelhart
Learn to paint watercolor portraits with Jane
Angelhart. In The Watercolor Portrait you
get to see how Jane follows the colors in unexpected directions, and lets the
colors bloom under her attentive watch, while she maintains a fine balance. (more)
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Price: $39.95
Rating: none
Code: 22-JPA1d
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Join Jane Paul Angelhart in the watercolor instruction video, The
Watercolor Portrait, and learn
how to paint watercolor portraits with light, balance, passion and luscious
clarity.
NOTE: This is not a Creative Catalyst Productions video. CCP
is working with Jane to produce a new video later this year.
Jane Paul Angelhart
Jane Paul Angelhart was born in Munich in 1951 and joined her service family
who traveled to various places about the globe. Strongly influenced by her
two grandmothers who were both artists, Jane’s devotion to art began
as a child. Focusing on printmaking in college, she also worked in ceramics
and as stained glass before settling on watercolor as a medium of her expression.
She designed and built church windows for several churches in the central Florida
area all of which remain a testimony to her originality and skill.
Jane has
painted more than three hundred and fifty commissioned watercolors over fifteen
years for enjoyment and to support herself. She continues to produce beautiful
art with confidence and flare always focusing on the substance of a good painting
while keeping her clients’ desires mindful. Jane has enjoyed teaching
watercolors to many aspiring artists in the United States. By continuing to
learn from study and the work of other artists, Jane keeps her work fresh and
alive.
Artist's Statement
Painting is my passion, whether in oils or watercolors. Traditional oils are
like applying colored butter to a canvas… a luscious process I could
never tire of.
Painting a portrait in watercolor is a lot like raising a child. It is a tight
rope act, an incredibly fine balance between letting the vibrant transparent
colors grow and bloom in unexpected directions… and being a careful
and thoughtful guide, coaxing and coaching and watching…ever careful
not to meddle too much with a brush and spoil the beauty. After fifteen years
of painting watercolor portraits, I am still enthralled with the process. I
begin each painting with excited expectation, a mother wondering if I am up
to the challenge. I can't imagine a better job.
The visual treat of a watercolor is its transparency…. its clean, pure
color. What better medium to use for a child's portrait? There is no white
paint; so careful planning is essential to the process. The portrait is painted
from light to dark (just the opposite of an oil approach). It takes calculated
finesse to create multiple luminous layers, without dissolving previous layers
and muddying the color. Carefully layered washes give a watercolor painting
its characteristic sparkle and glow.
Watercolors were once thought of as a sketch or study medium for subsequent
oil paintings. With lightfast professional pigments, ph balanced papers, and
archival framing techniques, watercolors have the potential to outlast oil
paintings and are fast becoming the medium of choice.
- Jane Paul Angelhart
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