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:
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.
April 4, Jim Minet teaching Oil at Nassau Country Museum of Art Manes Center, Roslyn Harbor, NY.
April 19, 12-2pm, Danielle Caners teaching Watermedia at Artists Emporium, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Learn More.
April 19, 2-4pm, Danielle Caners teaching Acrylic at Artists Emporium, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Learn More.
April 26, 10am-12pm, Debra Yaun teaching Watermedia at Norcross Gallery & Studios, Norcross, GA. Learn More.
April 26, 1-3pm, Debra Yaun teaching Acrylic at Norcross Gallery & Studios, Norcross, GA. Learn More.
April 26, 10am-12pm, Morghan Gill teaching Watermedia at Orange County Fine Arts Association, Orange County, CA.
April 26, 11am-1pm, Emily Bourassa teaching Watermedia at Graphaids in Culver City, CA.
April 27, 3pm-5pm, Jinjer Markley teaching Watermedia at Mercantile Plaza, Port Washington, WI.
April 29, 9:30-11:30am, Jinjer Markley teaching Acrylic at Cedarburg Culteral Center, Cedarburg, WI.
April 29, 5-7pm, Jinjer Markley teaching Acrylic at Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Milwaukee, WI.
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.
Instagram @ andreawalkerart
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.
YouTube @ cautionartistatplay
Instagram @ Cautionartistatplay Facebook @ Cautionartistatplay
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!
instagram @lexihannah.art
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.
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_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.
Jenna Brechbiel
Seattle, WA
As a woman, mother, and watercolorist, Jenna finds that her art is a reflection of the beauty and chaos that is life. She finds inspiration in the natural world around her, and aims to capture its essence in her paintings. Watercolor is her chosen medium because of its fluidity and ability to create both delicate and bold strokes. Each brushstroke is a moment in time, a reflection of emotions and experiences.
Lara Hjorthoy
Vanacouver, BC
Illustrator, Sculptor and award winning Makeup Artist from Vancouver BC. With a passion for portraits and figurative art, filled with bright bold colours. Experienced in many mediums, having settled into a happy existence with Gouache, Watercolours and Ink. Participated in group shows with Galleries around the world from from Vancouver, San Diego and Portugal.
Shannon Meis
Kansas City, MO
Shannon is a Kansas City, Missouri-based artist and illustrator. She received a Bachelor’s in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD Savannah) and has been working in the art materials industry since 2015.
Shannon has a rich background in dry mediums – pencils, pens, markers and the like, and that lead to her employment with Copic, working as their in-house demo artist, product consultant and creative marketing lead. In the spring of 2023, however, she decided to expand her horizons outside of dry mediums and established her own unique geometric style of painting using heavy body acrylics and acrylic ink markers.
Shannon’s work is greatly influenced by her love of color, shapes, composition and detail. Although the subject matter and overall look of her art varies significantly from one medium to the next, she finds a consistent inspiration from color, nature, and the people she meets.
Shannon embraces the fact that she does not have one particular style or medium of preference. She genuinely enjoys experimenting with any art supply that comes her way and teaching people of all experience levels of how to use them, often making “happy accidents” in the process. To Shannon, making a piece of art that you’re proud of is a wonderful gift, but being able to share the joy of creating and learning something new with other people is priceless!
Danielle Caners
Manitoba, Canada
Danielle Caners is the pilot of a magnificent space shuttle bringing you on a journey to the depths of the earth, far into the cosmos and back to the core of your being. Her art is the synthesis of an untameable thirst to learn, create, and grow. Her paintings are tapestries of visual codes that reward viewers with new discoveries every time they are revisited - each one embedded with ancestral wisdom, wonder of nature and practical observations of what it is to live a fulfilled life. Danielle’s global reputation is a testament to the power of what she brings. She stands at the fulcrum of art, education and healing; guiding us to self-actualization. Specializing in drawing and painting, Caners has grown into an inspirational speaker, giving workshops and producing books, videos and beyond. Danielle’s artistic skills continue to adapt and expand into traditional painting methods, digital art, miniature sculpture, scenic painting in films, augmented reality and alternative means of story telling. The many projects she’s contributed to include Myco Wisdom, an art and education project introducing people into the world of fungi, Prosthetic Reality, the first Augmented Reality art book (featured in VICE news and CNET), mural commissions and curating The Antipodes Project with over thirty international contributors (featured in Juxtapoz and White Hot magazines). Her art has shown in four continents and is collected around the world.
Alanna Cartier
Toronto, Canada
Alanna works as a self-taught artist and illustrator in Toronto, Canada. She works in a loose and expressive style in Acrylic Gouache and Coloured Pencil. She delights in scribbles, marks, and brush strokes that remain visible in the final artwork, marrying realism with a clear artist’s hand. She uses painting to better see and understand the world around her, and to share the wonder she finds. Her subject matter includes food, flowers, birds, and nature.
Teaching is an essential component of Alanna’s art practice. She publishes pre-recorded classes on Skillshare where she was named a Top Teacher in 2019. Since then, her classes about acrylic gouache, photographing your art, and letting go of perfectionism have been watched by more than 18,000 people worldwide.
https://www.alannacartier.com/
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@alannamakesthings
Keith Eccles
New Orleans, LA
Keith Eccles, a New Orleans-based artist and retired educator, has dedicated his life to art and community. He owns a studio in Gretna, creates murals, and has exhibited nationwide. His work has been recognized by President Obama, Delgado’s "Circle of Excellence," and multiple Teacher of the Year awards. Through his Bayou Art Life brand, he continues to celebrate Southern Louisiana’s vibrant culture.
Adam Hansen
Monterey, CA
Adam, a Naval veteran and lifelong artist, draws inspiration from his travels, military service, and love of trains and nature. After leaving the Navy in 2021, he honed his skills through intensive plein air study and exhibited internationally at the Spanish Village Arts Center. Influenced by Middle Eastern and Asian art, his work blends whimsy with rustic and ethereal elements. He collaborates with rail organizations, creates commissioned and licensed art, and showcases his work in galleries across the U.S. A member of the American Society of Railway Artists, Adam’s pieces are collected worldwide.
Michelle Hunt
Kalamazoo, MI
Michelle is an artist and illustrator based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her works encompass various mediums and techniques, although she works primarily in watercolor and ink. Michelle graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design with a BFA in illustration, and is now a member of the Starlite Artist Collective, a group of artists who put on various shows and markets throughout western Michigan. Michelle’s style is inspired by the feminine forms and organic lines of the Art Nouveau movement, as well as the story-driven subjects of myth and legend found in the art of the Pre-Raphaelites. Her subjects range from fantasy characters and creatures to witches and more occult imagery. She has been fascinated with fantasy, folklore, and legends her whole life, and the themes within these stories often creep into her artwork. Michelle is currently in the process of illustrating her own Tarot deck. She can usually be found in her studio, working on at least 8 projects at any given time, or at her home tending to her collection of houseplants.