Holbein & Legion Brand Ambassador Program with General Pencil

We are proud to work with a group of artists well versed in both Legion and Holbein products. Together, we hope to educate the artist community on the benefits of using Holbein paints with Legion’s paper though a series of workshops.

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Contact us here if you’re interested in becoming a part of the program.

Upcoming Workshops:

Feb 22, 10am-12pm, Morghan Gill teaching Acrylic at Orange County Fine Art Association. Contact Orange Country Fine Arts for more info.

March 14 11am-12:30pm, Leslie Lienau teaching Watermedia at Artisan ABQ, Albuquerque, NM. Sign up here.

March 20, Nadine Johnson teaching Acrylic at Kensington Art, Calgary, AB Canada. SOLD OUT.

March 20, 10am-12pm, Andrea Walker teaching Watermedia at Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center, Covington, KY. Sign up here.

March 21, Leslie Lienau teaching Acrylic at Artisan Santa FE, Santa Fe, NM. Sign up here.

March 22, 10:30am-12:30pm, Danielle Caners teaching Watermedia at Black Dog Art Supply, Regina, SK, Canada. Sign up here.

March 22, 1:00pm-3:00pm, Danielle Caners teaching Acrylic at Black Dog Art Supply, Regina, SK, Canada. Sign up here.

Jennifer Caviola

Connecticut, USA

Jennifer received her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 2002 and her MFA from Parsons in New York City in 2007. She has had solo shows in New York City, Brooklyn, and California and has participated in group shows throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. She has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Cultured Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Complex Magazine, Papermag, Juxtapoz and High Fructose.

Mia Whittemore

Massachussetts, USA

Mia is a Massachusetts-based artist and surface designer. She received a BFA in Art Education from Boston University and continued to learn a great deal about fostering the creative process, especially in her time spent as an elementary school art teacher.

Mia’s work is greatly influenced by her love of nature and vintage design. She enjoys exploring color and pattern through the subject matter of animals, botanicals, and florals. Mia works mainly in Acrylic Gouache as it allows her to build layers of vibrant color and achieve fine detail in her paintings.

Andrea Walker

Ohio, USA

Andrea creates realistic paintings and drawings, and she specializes in portraits and still lifes. Her work focuses on a beautiful arrangement of shapes and light, portraying the beauty in the world through people and objects. Andrea was born and raised in Tennessee, then moved to Georgia to study Illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts while also studying with acclaimed portrait painter Amy Lind. She now works as a professional fine artist and instructor in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Andrea’s artistic approach incorporates attention to detail, strong design, and a realistic rendering of light and texture through many layers. She is known for both her black & white and color artwork. A calm and peaceful quality is seen throughout her work, commonly including elements from nature. She enjoys working with different media including soft pastel, watercolor, charcoal, graphite, acrylic, and oil painting. Her creative approaches have won her many awards, inclusion in juried exhibitions internationally, and features in curated publications. Andrea is represented by 3 Square Art Gallery in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Morghan Gill

California, USA

Morghan graduated from the Laguna College of Art and Design gaining a BFA in their Traditional Animation program. Since then, she has been a working professionally on everything from tv shows and video games to feature animated films. Her focus is character design and visual development. While she works digitally most days at the office, her personal preference is to work traditionally in acrylic gouache, watercolors, and acrylic paints.

Shana Rowe Jackson

Maine, USA

Living in rural Maine, Shana’s work is inspired by her natural surroundings. Shana works most often in realism, but she also enjoys doing some illustration and surrealistic work from time to time. Shana aims to capture a feeling of nostalgia with her work, choosing landscapes, wildlife and still life as subjects and using light and color to conjure a sense of a specific time, place or memory.

Shana earned her bachelor’s in art with a concentration in painting from the University of Maine at Augusta where she was awarded the Charles E. Gordon Art Award for her helpfulness in the classroom. One of Shana’s favorite activities is exploring new media and sharing her knowledge with other artists through her YouTube Channel. She has extensive experience with both wet and dry media such as acrylics, watercolors, colored pencils, and pastels. Shana’s work has been a part of multiple exhibitions, publications, and community projects throughout the years, and she is always looking for new ways to make a positive impact on others through art. 

Lexi Hannah

New York, USA

Lexi is a professional artist born and raised in the Capital District of New York State.  A lifelong painter, she graduated with a B.A. in Art History/Studio Art from SUNY Geneseo in 2014, where she began her professional journey as a commission painter and muralist that has taken her to several sites around New York and the USA, as well as Italy and Ecuador. Her work spans a myriad of subjects from beloved pets, to delicious food, to the most recognizable people and places.  Working primarily with acrylic and watercolor in the earlier parts of her career, she pioneered a technique of drip painting over illustrative wax, which earned her features by Instagram,Insider, and Vanity Fair.  Currently creating out of her studio in Albany, she has adopted and proliferated the use of a variety of materials and techniques including airbrush, oil paint, ink, and gouache. Her current ventures now include Live Event Painting and tattooing. She also hosts a variety of workshops and plein air jamborees, oftentimes collaborating with other artists.  An avid workshop and convention attendee, she recognizes that there is always more to learn, and she loves every minute of it!

Leslie Lienau

Santa Fe, NM

Leslie studied academic drawing and painting under Ted Seth Jacobs at his school Ecole Albert DeFois in Central France. Other influential instructors include Andrew Ameral, founder of The Golden Gate Atelier, Anthony Ryder of The Ryder School in Santa Fe and Jacob Collins, founder of The Grand Central Academy in NYC. Leslie has received numerous awards for her pastel drawings and her work is in both private and public collections. She exhibited in a solo exhibit at the Governor’s Gallery at the Oklahoma Capitol, Oklahoma City, OK and was invited twice to show at the American Art in Miniature Show at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK. Leslie has been teaching drawing and painting for over 25 years. She is the founder of The Oklahoma Academy of Classical Art, a private studio school in Edmond, OK where she taught drawing and painting in the classical tradition to both children and adults. Currently, Leslie resides in Pecos, New Mexico where she teaches classes and workshops.

leslielienaustudio.com

Instagram @leslielienau

Judd Mercer

Denver, CO

Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape painter and Colorado native obsessed with telling stories through light. Working on plein air and in the studio, Judd explores the tension between ourselves and the landscape and plays with our relationship to wild, exhilarating vastness. Always hunting for transient, magic moments in secret places along roads less traveled, Judd seeks to capture the powerful wonder permeating even the quietest scenes. Judd works in oil and gouache and frequently participates in plein air invitational events across the country. Judd is a Laguna Plein Air Painters Signature Artist and has been recognized by Modern Impressionist Magazine and Plein Air Magazine in their “10 Artist to Collect Now” feature. Judd is currently represented by Abend Gallery in Denver, Colorado. 

juddmercer.com

@juddmercer_art

Syz Angelini

Philadelphia, PA

Syz Angelini is a painter based in Philadelphia. Growing up as a dual citizen and splitting time between Florida and Rome, their art has been inspired by the similarities of life found across dramatically different environments.

An avid artist since childhood, Syz began focusing on their artistic development through early college enrollment rather than a traditional high school experience. They were awarded Temple University’s Presidential Scholarship and graduated in 2024 with a B.A., double majoring in Painting and Environmental Studies.

Syz’s artistic interest lies in the search for common themes between their and others’ stories: expanding narrow lived perception to the universal. The subject matter in their art ranges widely based on where these connections reveal themselves, whether they be in human and nonhuman forms.

Syz enjoys experimenting with mediums and specializes in oils and watercolor. They enjoy the physical process of painting and continually expanding their knowledge about the materials and techniques of their craft.

Syz’s work has been featured most recently in Vox Populi’s “Cabinet Of”, Project Ieerie’s “Let me know you are alright” at the University of Pennsylvania's Charles Addams Gallery, and in a solo exhibition at Tyler School of Art as a recipient of Temple’s Creative Arts, Research, And Scholarship grant.