Artistic Process I used a combination of media including acrylic, pastel, colored pencil and Photoshop to achieve my results. I especially used transparent layers in Photoshop to create the atmospheric abstraction prevalent in each of these pieces.

Janis Kirstein is a Visual Artist as well as a writer. Her visual art includes painting,
photography, sculpture and her writing includes short stories, children's stories with her
own illustrations, and poetry.

In Spring of 2007, she was included in the first International Nano
Art Exhibit in Finland. This was an exhibit of artists working with electron microscope
images as a basis for creative exploration.

She has also exhibited her work in Japan, South Korea, Spain, Peru and Austria, as
well as in many places all over the United States.

She has taught Visual art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Indiana
University , University of Louisville and Kentucky State and now currently teaches at
Western Hills High School in Frankfort, Kentucky.