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Val can be reached at (269)-598-8565 or 269-929-0185 (after 7:00 p.m. EST). Teaches watercolor pencil, plein air sketching, and calligraphy (Chancery Cursive) lessons, mainly to Adults, but to all ages as well. Specializes in brush script calligraphy, loves to do 'wedding or anniversary' pieces, 11 x 14, on Arches 140#, in gouache, with botanical illustration. Has fun doing plein air sketching in cafes or at lakesides. Has fun performing calligraphy in public, live, for children and families, art fair-market venues. Lord willing, will be teaching at Kendall College of Art and Design, in Contin. Ed. Dept., this Winter of 2008-9, 'House Portraits'. Contact Kendall College Art and Design, Grand Rapids, to register, verify times and dates. May possibly be teaching at Comstock Comm. Ed. in Kalamazoo sometime Fall 2008, Calligraphy or other art class, to be announced.
Honors/Accomplishments:
LIfesaving, CPR, First aid, certified Sr. Lifesaving age 15, used 2 x to save two people in the water (at ages 16 and 28).
Russel Seibert Award for medical illustrations at Western Michigan University, 1975.
Illustrated Animal Zoology at Western Michigan University, by Dr. Gian C. Sud, (c) 1976.
Illustrated leg muscle drawings (8), one in airbrush, two in conte crayon, and remaining in pen and ink with conte crayon, for WMU's Wood Hall Science Building Anatomy Laboratory, Western Michigan University. Did calligraphy for labels of muscles (1976).
Illustrated article by Dr. Kuhns, in Journal of Computerized Axial Tomography (1980).
Illustrated midwife drawings in Haiti to teach Midwives anatomy and physiology of reproduction (1988-89). (Lived in Haiti one year, Admin. Secy at American-run Hopital Albert Schweitzer, in rural Deschapelles, Haiti, 30 miles N. of St. Marc).
Mural in Schoolcraft, MI, daycare provider's, 9 ft. x 12 ft., acrylic/Latex paint.
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