Featured artist
Jeanne de Campos-Rousseau
USA
Specialty Categories
Painting/Drawing - Landscape
Aspen Grove, watercolor, 16"x20"
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Aspens and Spruce, watercolor and gauche, 16"x20"
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By the Road, watercolor, 16"x20"
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Painting/Drawing - Cityscape
Night Shift at the Bakery, acrylic, 20"x30"
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Evening Stroll in Boston, acrylic, 16"x20"
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Les Marchants du Rouen, acrylic, 20"x30"
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Painting/Drawing - Floral
Daffodils, watercolor and gauche, 18"x24"
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My Succulent, acrylic, 16x20"
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Harvard Tulips, watercolor, 20"x30"
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Artist Statement/Bio
Painting with Emotion!
During my early education, I was privileged to have an excellent teacher. She was a watercolorist but had extensive knowledge of all media as well as basic drawing and design skills. I studied under her for four years and received an art scholarship to continue my studies. I focused on painting in oil and took workshops from several professional artists in the area. While enjoying some success as an artist, I left the world of art for a number of years to return to school and received a BS in Computer Science. I worked the next 25 years in the Aerospace Industry as a Satellite Software Engineer. In 2004 I retired and immediately resumed my heart's desire, painting.
Initially I tried my hand in watercolor. Finding watercolor very frustrating, I began working in acrylic on paper. I can apply my oil techniques but remain in a watermedia medium. I am quite active in one of the watermedia societies in my area and have great opportunities to exhibit my watermedia paintings. I focus on landscapes, portraits and sometimes collage. I paint in a realistic style and always try to make my paintings convey a feeling of mood. I am a studio painter, painting from my own photographs in most cases.
Just recently I was inspired to paint our California landscape in oils. I am so thrilled and comfortable to be painting in oils again that my direction for the immediate future is to paint in oils on canvas. I will continue with my acrylics on paper but my new focus will be oils.
I am a member of the Santa Cruz Art League, the California Watercolor Association and the Santa Clara Watercolor Society, the International Society of Acrylic Painters and the Parajo Valley Art League. I have recently been accepted into the American Art Collector 2013 book.
I enjoy the quiet of my studio or the studio filled with soft background music. I continue to learn and grow with each painting. It has been said of me that "I am a poetic painter." I focus on capturing a mood; telling a story; sharing a special place with you, the viewer.
Painting with Emotion!
During my early education, I was privileged to have an excellent teacher. She was a watercolorist but had extensive knowledge of all media as well as basic drawing and design skills. I studied under her for four years and received an art scholarship to continue my studies. I focused on painting in oil and took workshops from several professional artists in the area. While enjoying some success as an artist, I left the world of art for a number of years to return to school and received a BS in Computer Science. I worked the next 25 years in the Aerospace Industry as a Satellite Software Engineer. In 2004 I retired and immediately resumed my heart's desire, painting.
Initially I tried my hand in watercolor. Finding watercolor very frustrating, I began working in acrylic on paper. I can apply my oil techniques but remain in a watermedia medium. I am quite active in one of the watermedia societies in my area and have great opportunities to exhibit my watermedia paintings. I focus on landscapes, portraits and sometimes collage. I paint in a realistic style and always try to make my paintings convey a feeling of mood. I am a studio painter, painting from my own photographs in most cases.
Just recently I was inspired to paint our California landscape in oils. I am so thrilled and comfortable to be painting in oils again that my direction for the immediate future is to paint in oils on canvas. I will continue with my acrylics on paper but my new focus will be oils.
I am a member of the Santa Cruz Art League, the California Watercolor Association and the Santa Clara Watercolor Society, the International Society of Acrylic Painters and the Parajo Valley Art League. I have recently been accepted into the American Art Collector 2013 book.
I enjoy the quiet of my studio or the studio filled with soft background music. I continue to learn and grow with each painting. It has been said of me that "I am a poetic painter." I focus on capturing a mood; telling a story; sharing a special place with you, the viewer.
Gallery Representation & Exhibition Schedule
Currently showing in the International Society of Acrylic Painters juried on-line show.