By Elizabeth McPherson  

Our next featured artist comes from the field of Performing Arts. Tony Rodriguez is an Instructor and Actor located in Fresno, California.  His background includes various genres, including theatre, film, and dance. 

By Elizabeth McPherson  

Troy Tennard is an Illustrator specializing in black and white compositions.  He is a graduate of Kean University, where he studied illustration and received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Communications.  His work has been published in several literary magazines including: “Snow Monkey,” “Ancient Paths,” “Potpourri,” and “Shades of December.”  TCP contacted Troy about his work to ask questions about his unique art form.

By Elizabeth McPherson  

Our featured artist for this month is Illustrator and Painter, S. Dean Vavak.  Dean comes from a background of over twenty-four years of graphic design and management, holding important positions such as Designer, Illustrator, Senior Art Director, Creative Department Head, and Vice President. His “first love” is illustrating and painting, and many of his works capture the human form and spirit.

By Elizabeth McPherson 

Ann is a life-long art lover, wife and mother of four.  Painting exclusively with oils she works from her home studio located in Maplewood, Minnesota.  She describes her paintings as, “Impressionistic Realism,’ meaning more realistic than the master Impressionists like Monet,” tending to use “exaggerated color and vigorous brush strokes" which keep her work from being completely realistic.

By Elizabeth McPherson

Our Featured Artist is Connecticut native and sculptor, Scott Lee Johnson.  Scott has been utilizing and expanding his gift in the area of sculpting for the past eighteen years.  Artistic talent ‘runs in his veins.’  His Grandfather, Burt Johnson, was a renowned sculptor and his Father, Harvey W. Johnson, was a charter member of the “Cowboy Artists of America.”  Scott has studied under Stanley Bleifeld, former President of the “National Sculpture Society,” and with Fritz White of the Cowboy Artists.