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HOME	Local Artist Showcase Val Washburn The incredible journey of painting is one that Val Washburn has been exploring since childhood. Val’s creativity is evident in her work. Transparent watercolor is the process she uses, applying many washes of colors to canvas starting with the lightest areas to the darkest. The layering of these washes, with a combination of wet on wet and wet on dry, creates the light and dark shapes she creates in her paintings. She does not use white paint but leave the lightest areas unpainted, while softening the hard edges into color. The combining of water and paint create movement is, she says, what she enjoys most about painting with watercolor. She graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a degree in Art and Education and today she paints in both Ivoryton and Orlando. When she is not painting with other artists who are members of the Central Florida Watercolor Society, she volunteers at Florida Hospital in their Artist-in-Residence Program. There she combines art with the process of healing, painting with children who are cancer patients. Since these children cannot leave their beds, Val paints with them, encouraging them to laugh to help them with their pain.

The incredible journey of painting is one that Val Washburn has been exploring since childhood. Val’s creativity is evident in her work. Transparent watercolor is the process she uses, applying many washes of colors to canvas starting with the lightest areas to the darkest. The layering of these washes, with a combination of wet on wet and wet on dry, creates the light and dark shapes she creates in her paintings. She does not use white paint but leave the lightest areas unpainted, while softening the hard edges into color. The combining of water and paint create movement is, she says, what she enjoys most about painting with watercolor. She graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a degree in Art and Education and today she paints in both Ivoryton and Orlando.
When she is not painting with other artists who are members of the Central Florida Watercolor Society, she volunteers at Florida Hospital in their Artist-in-Residence Program. There she combines art with the process of healing, painting with children who are cancer patients. Since these children cannot leave their beds, Val paints with them, encouraging them to laugh to help them with their pain.