The purpose of the Arvada Fine Arts Guild is to encourage the originality of the individual and endeavor to obtain public recognition for the amateur as well as the professional artist.
Traci Zajaczkowski is a former art teacher and a lifetime artist. Her focus for this workshop is creating colorful and detailed animal portraits using a combination of colored pencils & markers. Inspired by the magic and beauty of the animals around her, Traci strives to bring their personalities out with vibrant colors and stylized details. Traci has a Masters degree in illustration and her art has won many awards.
Learn some of Traci’s unique colored pencil and marker blending techniques at this upcoming workshop. We will explore ways to strengthen compositions, explore techniques, create a sample piece and then create your own colorful 8 x 10 or 9 x 9 animal masterpiece! Bring your own animal portrait/close-up photo to use or you can use one of Traci’s. The techniques that Traci will be teaching relies on the use of Prismacolor Colored Pencils and alcohol markers.
