Myrna Wacknov's Paintings

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1942, Myrna was already demonstrating an unusual ability and interest in art as early as five years old. Her passion for color and for portraiture and figurative work have been ongoing themes since childhood. She studied with world-renowned portrait artist Frank Szaz as a teenager and learned to paint in oils in the Old Master's technique.

Myrna was doing commissioned portraits before graduating high school. She was also the charcoal sketch artist at numerous outdoor art shows around the Kansas City area for a number of years. Having attended Washington University in St. Louis and the Kansas City Art Institute, Myrna finished her degree in Painting and Drawing at the College of San Mateo and San Francisco State University.

She started her own company, Myrna Wacknov, Designs, Inc. in 1982 and has worked in many art mediums. In 2000 she started her love affair with watercolor. She has taken many workshops with top watercolorists including Joseph Bohler, Catherine Anderson, Roland Roycraft, Judy Morris, Charles Reid, Arne Westerman, Frank Francase, Carla O'Connor, and Karen Frey. She participated in “Watercolor Beyond the Obvious” (WBTO) with Mike Bailey. She received her Signature Membership in the National Watercolor Society in 2005, and her Signature Membership in the California Watercolor Society in 2007. (Continued...)