Robert Regis Dvorak's official resume is impressive. He was a recipient of an American Academy in Rome Fellowship and has received numerous grants. He is primarily a watercolor painter, but he also works with great skill at life drawing and as a printmaker of etchings and woodcuts. In addition he has produced over twenty-two short experimental films, many have been featured in film festivals in the USA, Europe and Australia.

He has had numerous solo exhibits and his paintings, films, and prints are in many private and museum collections around the United States.

Robert has written and illustrated five books: Drawing Without Fear, The Magic of Drawing, Experimental Drawing, The Pocket Drawing Book and Productivity at the Workstation, and he has illustrated two guidebooks, Exploring Half Moon Bay and the San Mateo Coast and Monterey Peninsula Exploring, by Nancy and Neil Evans.

When he's not working in his studio in Pacifica, California, he's on the road, teaching college-level drawing and painting classes and workshops throughout California and Hawaii. Or he's off to Molokai, Yosemite or Greece on his annual watercolor workshops.

Robert Regis Dvorak is a professional speaker, painter, and teacher. He has given over 2000 presentations promoting creative thinking, personal awareness, imagination, vision, and risk taking for corporations, associations, and schools--universities, colleges, high schools and elementary schools.

Dvorak received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded a two year Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome--FAAR for post-graduate study. Dvorak was a professor of architecture for seven years at the University of Oregon and two years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught design, problem solving and communication skills including drawing, film-making, watercolor painting, and other media skills. He was awarded a grant from the California Arts Council to promote art and creativity to elementary school teachers and children.

Dvorak draws on a rich background of unusual experience for his presentations including: being a member of the moon shot design team for the vehicle assembly building at Cape Canaveral, working as crew on large sailing yachts in the Greek islands, designing maternity centers in Trinidad, making experimental films--his animated films have been featured in festivals in the USA, Europe, and Australia--doing caricatures in Japanese night clubs, drawing temples in India, bicycle touring in Holland, hiking on the Great Wall of China, climbing the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and traveling in 55 countries making drawings, watercolors and speaking. He is very passionate about his work and enjoys teaching others how to receive joy from creating simple sketches from their daily travels.