Anne Johann
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914-806-4067
Teaching style:
Instruction for all levels is offered in each class. Individual attention and guidance is given to every student. Emphasis is on development of personal artistic vision while building skills. Composition, value, and use of color are explored, as well as understanding the unique characteristics of the medium in use. Demonstrations are given and students are shown examples of the work of masters.
Scarsdale Adult School, Scarsdale, NY
Group Instruction: Watercolors (Adults) 2016-present
Students learn how to successfully use flat, variegated, and graded washes. Mixing color on the palette and mixing color on the paper are demonstrated, followed by individual guidance to students. Controlling water, lifting, building value, using masking fluid, and experimental techniques are covered. Color theory is discussed to help students understand the properties of various pigments, and to show how colors react to each other when mixed or when applied side by side. Photographs are used for reference; students are given guidance on how to break away from copying the photograph.
Anne Johann Studio
Teaching and Workshops, Peekskill, NY
Small Group Instruction Watercolors (Adults) 2008-2016
All watercolor techniques listed above are covered. Projects are from life and from photographs.
Small Group Instruction Oils and Acrylics (Adults) 2008-2012, 2015.
Painting with an emphasis on traditional realism. Instruction is offered for abstract and non-objective work if the student desires. Composition, value, and color manipulation are discussed as ways to improve paintings. Students are encouraged to directly observe effects of light and value.
Private Instruction Oil Painting (Adults) 2009-2013
Private Instruction Drawing (Adults) 2013-2014
Private Instruction Traditional and Experimental Drawing, (Teen/Young Adult) 2008
Workshops:
Taos, New Mexico 2014
Oil and Watercolor painting instruction in New Mexico. Locations included Mabel Dodge Luhan House, The Rio Grande Gorge, Bandelier National Monument, Ghost Ranch. The group toured the Abiqui home of Georgia O’Keeffe, and visited galleries and The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.
Lake George, NY 2013, 2014.
Watercolor workshop. Plein air painting at locations on Lake George. The 2013 workshop commenced at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, where students viewed the O’Keeffe exhibit.
Rhinebeck, NY 2014
Four day watercolor workshop. Instruction in plein air landscape painting at Olana in Hudson, New Hyde Park, and Rhinecliff. Students toured Olana, the home of Frederick Church.
Plein Air Painting, Montauk 2006, 2007, 2009-2013.
Four day watercolor and oil painting workshop. Plein air painting instruction at locations around Montauk. Locations included beach scenes to include people in paintings, boatyards, and vistas unique to the area.
In the Footsteps of the Hudson River School Painters, Painting and Art History in the Catskills 2011
This workshop combined art history with painting on location. The group toured two homes of Hudson River School Painters: Olana, the home of Frederick Church, and Locust Grove, the home of Thomas Cole. The group painted at locations where these painters had worked, or were familiar with.
Putnam Arts Council, Belle Levine Art Center, Mahopac, NY
Watercolor Painting, (see above for description) 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010-2012
Oil and Acrylic Painting, (see above for description) 2004-2007
Art Therapy Outreach Program, Acrylic Painting. 2005-2010.
Students at a mental health institution were encouraged to find their inner joy and to feel good about themselves through painting while developing a new skill.
Croton/Cortlandt Center for the Arts, Cortlandt Manor, NY
Oil and Acrylic Painting, (see above for description) 1994, 95, 2001-2007, 2013
Watercolor Painting, (see above for description) 1998 - 2007
Watercolors on Location, 2003-2005
This summer class was initiated to address the needs of students who are primarily interested in landscape and to move away from the reliance on working from photographs. This plein air class was held at various locations. Students were provided with driving instructions at the first class, and notified of the next location the day before each subsequent class. Guidance on working outdoors as well as watercolor techniques listed above.
Color Theory Workshop for watercolor, 2003
Projects designed to help students better understand color, value, and the characteristics (sedimentary, staining, transparency, opacity) of the paints on their palettes.
Drawing (Adults), 2002-2005
This class was designed to help students draw better, and as an aid to better painting. Projects include gesture, contour, value, sighting, measuring, symmetry, foreshortening, perspective, as well as use and variation of line.
Drawing/Painting for children, and for pre-teens 2001-2004, 2006
Classes of age groups 7-9, and 10-12. Basic drawing and painting instruction. See above descriptions.
Lectures and Demonstrations
Scarsdale Public School
Visiting Artist
Demonstration of painting technique and Power Point presentation, January 2014.
Barnes & Noble, Cortlandt Town Center Mall, Mohegan Lake, NY
Lecture and Demonstration: Oils and Watercolors September 2002
A short lecture was given on traditional oil painting techniques. Examples of unfinished and finished paintings were shown. Following this, a demonstration in watercolor of a still life of fruit was painted from start to finish. Explanations of various techniques were given as the painting progressed. Finished watercolors were shown as examples of technique. Question period at end.
SUNY/Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY.
Lecture Demonstration: Oil Painting, October 1999.
A brief discussion was given on the subject of my landscape paintings and ideas regarding the creation of works of art was followed by a demonstration of traditional painting technique. This was concurrent with a 2 person exhibition in the college gallery featuring my paintings and the work of an aerial photographer titled “Landings.” Questions were encouraged throughout the demonstration.
Education:
Portraiture Workshop, Daniel Greene, North Salem, NY.
National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, NYC.
Oil Painting with Ronald Sherr. 1983-1984.
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Highest Honors, 1980.
New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.
Foundation Core. 1975-1977.
Teachers Workshops
Assessing Understanding in Arts Learning, Arts Knowing, and Arts Doing
ArtsWestchester White Plains November 2003
A workshop for teaching artists, classroom teachers, art specialists and arts-in-education Administrators presented by consultant and author Jane Remer. A workshop to aid classroom teachers and teaching artists in finding ways to evaluate the purpose, outcome, and instructional team balance, and quality of learning, in an artist residency.
Successful Residency Implementation: Developing a Lesson Plan
ArtsWestchester White Plains December 2003
A workshop for teaching artists. Facilitated by Westchester Arts Council Roster Artist Brenda Conner-Bey and consultant Ruth Katz. This session prepares residency artists to effectively plan, then transform information and ideas generated during the planning session, into a series of sequential workshops which address specific goals. Effective planning for teaching artists.
New York State Standards
ArtsWestchester White Plains January 2004
A workshop for teaching artists. Facilitated by Gary Bagley, Program Director Young Audiences, NY. This workshop was designed to address the ongoing challenge of using the arts to teach core curricula. The New York State Learning Standards for the Arts reviewed and discussed to lead to fresh ideas and deeper understanding for their application in the classroom. Integration with other New York State Learning Standards also covered.
