As a Watercolor Artist Kathy Boltz Phillips creates principle themes in her work that reflect life and happy times within a wide range of subjects and techniques.
Kathy Boltz Phillips Specializes In:
- Original Watercolor Paintings
- Limited Edition Offset Lithographs & Giclee reproductions
- LeisureTimeArt Studio Classes
- Childrens Books
Artistic Mission
As a watercolor specialist, my art and teaching have produced principal themes of “Life on the Good Side”, including “Rainpeople”, “Street Scenes”, “Animals”, “Flowers”, “Landscapes”, and “Seascapes”, reflecting life and happy times with a wide range of techniques. Aspirations include a desire to lecture and teach in my field of art.
Specialties
Watercolor painting combining stylization and realism to produce a fresh, clean and crisp look. An enthusiastic student of new techniques in watercolor application with unusual and creative materials. Expert in classroom demonstration and instruction.
Credentials
Graduate of Richland, HS of Johnstown, PA; Bachelor of Science of Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1970. Teaching certification with tenure from Penn State University, 1974. Taught 18 years as the principal art instructor in the West Bloomfield Community Education system. Guest watercolor instructor at Chautauqua Institute of Arts in New York. Advanced artistic study with Muriel Fullmer, Rockwell plate artist for Hallmark; Paul Denis, Cleveland Institute of Art; Diane Boldman, Baycrafters Studio of Cleveland; Fred Leach, Head Designer at American Greetings; William Kufell, Master Portrait Artist. Workshops with Nita Engles and Tom Lynch, Celebrity Watercolor Artists. Taught in Society of Decorative Painter conventions all over the United States and Canada.
Shows and Awards
Best of Show Awards at Northville Hills, MI Exhibit; Art Over the Interstate; and Clarkston, MI Art Festival. Received the Purchase Award at the East Jordan, MI Portside Show, several Purchase Awards in the Petoskey, MI Art in the Park Fair, and the Architectural Award at the Birmingham, MI “Our Town” event. Featured Artist at the Huntington Woods, MI Library Exhibit, 1995; Sponsor/promoter of the annual West Bloomfield Community Ed Student Art Exhibition, since1998. Best of Show Award at Mt Clemens, MI 2003. Best of Painting Award at Shelby, MI 2004. Second place in Cheboygan, MI 2005. Chosen for the Traveling Show in the Michigan Watercolor Society Exhibit 2006. Exhibition at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, MI 2006. Second place for painting award at Rochester, MI at the Village 2008. Third place for painting at Shelby, MI 2008. Honorable mention at St Clair, MI 2010. Best of Show at Shelby Twp, MI 2010. See Awards for Kathy Boltz Phillips »
Professional Associations
Member of the Michigan Watercolor Society; Michigan Guild of Artist and Artisans; Community House Art Center, Johnstown, PA.; Mackinac Island Arts Center, Mackinac Island, MI.
Hobbies
Painting; Teaching; Golf; Traveling; Owner of Exotic Birds.
