Robert Regis Dvorak has been a practicing artist for 25 years. He presents seminars in drawing, watercolor painting, creativity, and selling art for the University of California, San Franicsco State University, community college, and art galleries. He lives in Sacramento, California.
Robert Regis Dvorák, FAAR paints in watercolor, oil, and acrylic, with a studio at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, California. His inspirations are the California coast, Hawaii, Yosemite National Park, Europe-particularly Italy and Greece-and the human figure. His watercolors and oils are shown at the Garden Gallery in Half Moon Bay, California, the 20th Street Gallery in Sacramento, The Village Gallery in Maui, and the Nohea Galleries in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mr. Dvorák also teaches drawing and watercolor classes for University of California Extensions, San Francisco State University's College of Extended Learning, community colleges in California and Hawaii, and the University of Hawaii. He taught architectural design and drawing and watercolor painting at the University of Oregon for seven years and at the University of California at Berkeley for two years.
Mr. Dvorák has written and illustrated the following books: Drawing Without Fear, The Magic of Drawing, The Pocket Drawing Book, Experiential Drawing, and Productivity at the Workstation. He has illustrated two guidebooks, Half Moon Bay Exploring on the North Central California Coast and Monterey Peninsula Exploring, by Nancy and Neil Evans. Robert and his work were featured in two articles in American Artist Magazine: "Sketching While Traveling in Greece" and "Twenty Minutes to a Beautiful Figure."
Mr. Dvorák received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois and his Master of Architecture Degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a recipient of the American Academy in Rome Fellowship (two years), two grants from the University of Oregon, and a grant from the California Arts Council to promote art in California schools. He has produced more than 20 short experimental films; many have been featured in film festivals in the US, Europe, and Australia.
Mr. Dvorák has had 22 one-man exhibitions of his work. He is primarily a painter but also works with skill at life drawing and as a printmaker (etchings and woodcuts). His paintings, films, and prints are in many private and museum collections.
Mr. Dvorák has traveled in 54 countries. He has celebrated Carnival in Trinidad; worked as a caricature artist in Japanese night clubs; explored over 10,000 miles of India; bicycled around the Zuider Zee in the Netherlands; investigated the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia; traveled on the Transiberian Railroad; hiked the Great Wall of China; climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid in Egypt; and sailed the Greek Islands.
Mr. Dvorák is often invited to be a keynote speaker and sales trainer, drawing on his many experiences to illustrate his message that every person has the power to see and create his or her life.
Reproductions of a few of his works can be viewed on his web site at www.youcreate.com.