Jordan Blevins Lively and Jarrod Wilson featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine
Jordan Blevins Lively with a few of her watercolor portraits.
Two RU MFA graduate students are among those chosen for Watercolor Artist magazine’s “10 Artists You Should Know.” This December 2014 feature, also known as “Ones to Watch,” includes Jordan Blevins Lively and Jarrod Wilson.
“’Ones to Watch’ is a national competition that Watercolor Artist magazine puts on once a year to feature 10 artists of their choice,” said Lively, a third year graduate student who plans to graduate in spring ‘15. “Any watercolor artist can enter and I was encouraged by Professor Feng to submit my watercolor portraits.”
Jarrod Wilson works on a painting
Wilson elaborates on the selection process, “In order to be considered as one of the ‘Ones to Watch’ you have to be nominated by someone that Watercolor Artist asks to nominate rising watercolor painters.”
Professor of art, Z.L.Feng, is such a person. He nominated both and then the magazine had the nominees submit work for consideration for the final 10.
In Feng’s comments about Lively’s portraits, he said, “Jordan wants to convey emotion in her watercolor portraits.”
Watercolor by Lively featured in Watercolor Artist magazine.
According to her statement in the magazine, she strives for accuracy in proportions and bone structure, but keeps her brushwork loose and wet.
Wilson’s subject matter is cars.
“Jarrod creates believable, realistic versions of cars with transparent watercolor by alternating between wet-into-wet and wet-on-dry,” Feng said.
Even with an honor such as inclusion in the “Ones to Watch,” Lively and Wilson’s future involves being educators. Once Lively graduates, she plans to be an art professor.
Wilson is currently in the field and teaches art and advanced placement art history at Galax High School in Galax, Virginia. He has taught for 14 years in this school system. He plans to graduate from RU in spring ’16.
Both plan to continue creating art.
To learn more about the RU graduate art program, visit www.radford.edu/content/cvpa/home/art/programs/mfa.html To see more of Lively’s work, go to www.jordanlively.com. Wilson’s website is www.jarrodwilsonfineart.com.
Painting by Wilson featured in Watercolor Artist magazine.
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