July 17
2016 MONTHLY MEETINGS
Meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of each month
At Barnes and Noble in the Community Room
6:30 pm
Meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of each month
At Barnes and Noble in the Community Room
6:30 pm
2010 Monthly Meetings
January 18
February 15
March 21
May 16
June 20
August 15
Barnes and Noble
April 18
September 19
October 17
November 21
December
Our Annual Holiday party is filled with friends, food, and good cheer. We will be installing the new Executive Board Members for 2017.
2011 Monthly Meetings
2012 Monthly Meetings
2013 Monthly Meetings
Sharon Weaver - Oil Painting
“A sense of awe is what inspires me. I find it in the grand views that nature provides but also in small things like a reflected shadow or the sunlight on water. Capturing part of that awe onto canvas is my goal. It is a task I relish,” said Weaver.
Weaver was juried into the Oil Painters of America 20th Annual National Exhibition, an award winner at the Carmel Art Festival and one of ten finalists in the LADOT TAP Card Competition with a presentation ceremony at the LA Art Walk. Weaver received the Bronze Medal for her work at the San Dimas Art Festival 2015. Plein Air Invitational Competition, Ventura Art Walk, Ventura, 2015 and LPAPA Best of Plein Air, Forest & Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach, 2015. In addition, her work was included in American Art Collector magazine in the 2011 June and September issues and most recently in the 2014 September issue of Southwest Art.
Weaver's teaching credentials include an ongoing plein air class with Kline Academy of Fine Art; figure drawing and plein air classes at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. She was honored as the featured artist at the premiere Inland Empire art festival “Art, for Heaven’s Sake!” She is a founding member of PAC6 Painters; a group dedicated to painting the beauty and grandeur of the American landscape.
“A sense of awe is what inspires me. I find it in the grand views that nature provides but also in small things like a reflected shadow or the sunlight on water. Capturing part of that awe onto canvas is my goal. It is a task I relish,” said Weaver.
Weaver was juried into the Oil Painters of America 20th Annual National Exhibition, an award winner at the Carmel Art Festival and one of ten finalists in the LADOT TAP Card Competition with a presentation ceremony at the LA Art Walk. Weaver received the Bronze Medal for her work at the San Dimas Art Festival 2015. Plein Air Invitational Competition, Ventura Art Walk, Ventura, 2015 and LPAPA Best of Plein Air, Forest & Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach, 2015. In addition, her work was included in American Art Collector magazine in the 2011 June and September issues and most recently in the 2014 September issue of Southwest Art.
Weaver's teaching credentials include an ongoing plein air class with Kline Academy of Fine Art; figure drawing and plein air classes at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. She was honored as the featured artist at the premiere Inland Empire art festival “Art, for Heaven’s Sake!” She is a founding member of PAC6 Painters; a group dedicated to painting the beauty and grandeur of the American landscape.
2014 Monthly Meetings
Karen Mills - Chinese Watercolor. Karen's topic will be Chinese Spontaneous painting techniques using watercolors on rice paper. The Chinese Spontaneous style of painting is very different from Western watercolor techniques and hopefully sufficiently interesting for those curious to look at another way of painting with watercolors. There is no need to sketch or draw in advance, the objective is to express the essence of the subject.
"Even though this style of painting has traditionally been known to be very difficult, I have developed a way to teach this to adult beginners where they can have fun and paint a beautiful flower in 1 hour," said Mills. "This style of painting requires letting go of control.... which in itself can be scary for most people, however the benefits can be therapeutic as it has been for me." You can view her art on www.ricepaperart.com.
"Even though this style of painting has traditionally been known to be very difficult, I have developed a way to teach this to adult beginners where they can have fun and paint a beautiful flower in 1 hour," said Mills. "This style of painting requires letting go of control.... which in itself can be scary for most people, however the benefits can be therapeutic as it has been for me." You can view her art on www.ricepaperart.com.
Annual Summer Bar B Q. Details to be announced.
2015 Monthly Meetings
January - Frank Eber - Watercolors
February - Lorelle Miller, Idelle Tyzbir, and Hector Fernandez
March - Tim Tien - Oils
April - Juan "Magoo" Valencia - Watercolors
May - Richard Aarons - Cartooning
June - Annie Hoffman - Floral still life in oils
July - BBQ
August - Iris Caragnan - Pastels
September - Nadia Littlewarrior - Gourds
October - Helene Jukoff - Acrylic palette knife painting
November - Art Classic winners
December - Holiday party
February - Lorelle Miller, Idelle Tyzbir, and Hector Fernandez
March - Tim Tien - Oils
April - Juan "Magoo" Valencia - Watercolors
May - Richard Aarons - Cartooning
June - Annie Hoffman - Floral still life in oils
July - BBQ
August - Iris Caragnan - Pastels
September - Nadia Littlewarrior - Gourds
October - Helene Jukoff - Acrylic palette knife painting
November - Art Classic winners
December - Holiday party
January - James Wisnowski - Oil & Water Color Painter
February - Pong Apinyavat
March - Judy Klement
April - Gary Moss, Photography
May - Judith Crowe - Pastel
June - Annie Hoffman - Oil
July - BBQ
August - David Wolfram - Oil Painting
September - Joseph Stoddard - Watercolorist
October - Art Classic
November - Frances Nichols - Pastel
December - Holiday Party
February - Pong Apinyavat
March - Judy Klement
April - Gary Moss, Photography
May - Judith Crowe - Pastel
June - Annie Hoffman - Oil
July - BBQ
August - David Wolfram - Oil Painting
September - Joseph Stoddard - Watercolorist
October - Art Classic
November - Frances Nichols - Pastel
December - Holiday Party
Madeleine Avirov
Watercolor
Watercolor
Annual Art Classic
Keiko was born in Kyoto, Japan and currently lives in San Diego, California. She embarked on a professional art career as a watercolor painter in 2005 after working in international relations. Since then, her work has earned many awards and recognitions on national and international level. Her work appears in private and corporate collections in many countries. Her work was also featured in numerous art publications. She is also a popular workshop instructor, teaching classes both in the U.S. and abroad. She is currently a member of National Watercolor Society (signature), American Watercolor Society, and North American Watercolor Artists.
Artist Julie Snyder studied drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. Architect Charles Rennie Macintosh designed the Art School in 1897, combining his unique style of Scottish tradition with Art Nouveau. This was the setting for rigorous exposure to drawing and painting from life. Julie Snyder was encouraged to pursue her art by an artist-mother and a writer-father. Her artistic career has spanned both sides of the Atlantic and included several years of residence in Southern Spain. Julie Snyder forged her craft as an illustrator in advertising, publishing and the motion picture industry. Her work hangs in collections and galleries across the country. The National Art Museum of Sport honored her with the Gold Medal for Painting 2013 for “Daily Drill.” This piece was painted as homage to women’s boxing as it was included for the first time in the London Olympics. This was her 3rd inclusion in the museum’s “Commitment to Excellence” exhibitions. For more info about Julie, please visit her website: www.JulieSnyder.com
Christina Ramos - “Golden A to Z of Acrylics” Paint applications/ Mixed Media
Christina Ramos is a nationally recognized artist from Southern California. Specializing in figurative realism, Christina was recently featured as an “Artist to Watch” in the January 2015 Issue of Southwest Art Magazine. Her work has been shown throughout the United States and has been honored with awards from Max Ginsburg, Dean Mitchell, Tony Pro, and Kristin Hoerth (Editor and Chief of Southwest Art Magazine). Her work has been featured in the Best of Acrylic painting books “Acrylic Works Volume 2 and Volume 3” edited by Jaime Markle and published by North Light Books.
Raised in a family of artists, craftsmen and musicians, Christina’s talent was recognized at an early age. Although she studied architecture and interior design during college, it was not until she was home raising her four children that she began focusing on painting. She refined her skills in figurative painting at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art. Her innovative use of acrylic has made her a much sought after demonstrator and instructor. She is currently a Golden Working Artist representing Golden Artist Colors, Williamsburg Handmade Oils, and QoR Watercolor Companies as well as the acrylic painting instructor at The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art.
Christina’s work has been shown at the Museum of Latin American Art, San Diego Museum of the Living Artist, the Santa Paula Museum of Art, the International Museum of Contemporary Masters of Fine Art, the Pacific Asian Museum, the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, the Pasadena Museum of History, and many galleries throughout the United States.
Christina is an active member of the Portrait Society of America, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, International Society of Acrylic Painters and the California Art Club. Christina’s work is held in many private collections in the United States and Europe.
Art teacher, writer and award winning painter, Avirov said, “I fell in love first with watercolor and then with the rigor of Old-Master oil techniques, but I’m not strictly a realist. I build up the surface of the canvas transparently—in dozens of layers in some places, in others abrading or letting the ground show through. I also lay down patches of color to build form architecturally.” She received numerous grants and awards. Her art is on exhibit throughout US, with art in public and private collections. She taught at Chouinard School of Art, Los Angeles, and the Art League, Oak Park, Illinois, among others. “A mix of realism, surrealism, Expressionism—my work is grounded in and is moving more and more toward abstraction, even imageless-ness. It is an abstract, inward movement, but one that carries with it the beloved things of the world.”
