Nebraska-based artist, Janice Howell is primarily a pencil artist, but occasionally works in other mediums, as she has been a K-12 art teacher since 1997 and loves many forms of art. She has always looked to the masters as her inspiration, wanting to achieve the fine detail she has seen in their works. She tries to achieve that detail with only the use of a pencil and no blending tools. Her portraiture has been awarded at the Colby, Kansas "Art on the Oasis" show and has been featured in the book "Arts Sports Politics Science, Portraits of Famous People" by Shan Peck. Janice resides in Cambridge, Nebraska, educating students in the arts there. She does commission work when she's not teaching.