Leah Kohlenberg is not just the president of Portland Open Studios (and therefore an invaluable advocate for the visual arts throughout our weird city) and she's not just a former world-traveling journalist with great stories to tell. She’s mainly a bold painter of cityscapes, portraits, flora and fauna. (Take note of the drippy ferns and flowers throughout this video.) For the past 11 years, she’s also been teaching painting at The Roaming Studio (find it on YouTube). And she wrote a book about how to draw faces called, fittingly, “The Roaming Studio’s Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Faces.”

Find her work here: https://www.leahkohlenberg.com