Nita Leland is in demand throughout the United States and Canada as a professional artist, teacher, lecturer and juror. She's the author of five best-selling art-instruction books: Exploring Color, The Creative Artist, Creative Collage Techniques, Exploring Color Revised and recently released The New Creative Artist. She has contributed articles to Watercolor Magic, Watercolor, The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist, Somerset Studio, and Watercolour Gazette. She is also the author and publisher of Exploring Color Coloring Book, a workbook for artists.

Acknowledged as an expert in color, Leland is the designer and manufacturer of the Nita Leland™ Color Scheme Selector, as well as a free-lance consultant to manufacturers of art materials. She is the featured artist in a video series, “Exploring Color Workshop,” a color course for artists and teachers.

Nita has taught many art workshops throughout the United States and Canada in watercolor, color, creativity, design and collage. Her goal as a teacher is to help artists move to a new level in their artistic development. Her own work centers primarily around watercolor landscape, using distinctive color to express a particular quality of light and to reveal her emotional response to the subject. Nita Leland’s award-winning works have been juried into many shows and are in the collections of hospitals, businesses and private collections.

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THANKS!!!
Thanks to all your generous donations of wonderful artwork, MTWS raised $600.00 at the Montana Watercolor Society  
Members’ Art Auction Watermedia 2006 Awards Banquet October 2006!  

Joan Blackburn, Sallie Bowen, Roberta Burruss, Vicky Campbell, Marje Grinde, Diane Hausmann, Margaret Hayes, Vickie Lynn Johnson, Sandra Marker, Janet McGahan, Mary Nault, Ed Nolde, Florance O’Neal, Susan Quande, Jennifer Robbins, Becky Ross, Kris Shaw, Carol Spurgeon, Ginnie Streeper, Margo Voermans, Linda Warneke.

And an every MORE special thanks to all who purchased the work…
You ALL are the reason the auction was a great success. 
The funds raised from the auction are used for the 
MTWS Watermedia Merit Awards.