,Artist Demos are presented after our regular meetings at 1.00 p.m. on the 3d Monday of the month. Note our new venue:
Oak Hill Presbyterian Church, 14892 Peaceful Valley Road, Sonora
Upcoming Demo
February 21, 2022. Our guest artist this month will be Heine Hartwig. Heine's entertaining and informative presentations always draw a crowd! This month, Heine will demonstrate how an abstract painting can evolve from a realistic work!
Past Demos
Judie Cain
January, 2022. Judie Cain is an award winning artist, represented in galleries in Washington, Oregon, New Mexico and California, including Murphys, Sonora, Copperopolis and Carmel. Judie has taught her workshops, “Basic Nuts & Bolts of Oil Painting” and “Color Demystified” in the western states as well as other local venues, and her presentation in January again focussed on the basics. Starting with a still life setup, Judie addressed composition and color through multiple sketches.
Michael Severin and his work
November, 2021. Michael Severin is a noted Mother Lode landscape artist and lifetime member, and current Vice President, of the MLAA. This month, members both old and new brought their work for a critique by Michael, who brought good humored and practical technical commentary, focused on color, value and composition, to art ranging from watercolor landscapes in a realistic style through varying levels of impressionism and fauvism to abstract collage. You can find out more about Michael and his art at his website, www.michaelseverin.com .
Jack Forkner
October, 2021. Jack Forkner is a retired Air Force pilot who began developing and printing black and white images in 1970 while stationed in Japan. Photography became his lifetime hobby and he has always loved to master something new. Over the years he specialized in aerial photography from a remote controlled aircraft and, later, from a drone which he built himself. Later, he moved on to astro photography using a telescope. Recently he has explored macro photography, capturing unexpected images of tiny subjects, and on the effects of drops of liquid into water. Jack illustrated his talk with some gorgeous and original photographs. His audience, both photographers and fine artists, found his enthusiasm and creativity inspirational.
"Zebras of the Serengeti"' by Andrea Morris
September 2021. Andrea Morris is a member of the Aloft and the MLAA. . In this demo, Andrea focused on the thorny issue of backgrounds.Through a series of pre-painted canvases and onsite painting, she showed us her process to build an integrated, finished work in which the colorful, loosely painted background supports the .finely detailed, realistically painted subject. .
"Spring Runoff" by Heine Hartwig
August 2021. Our August meeting featured a perennial favorite demo artist and good friend of the MLAA, Heine Hartwig. Over twenty of us watched as he completed a painting in an hour. That included a running commentary on the hows and whys of the way he was mixing and applying paint to his blank canvas as it rapidly moved towards a finished piece. Heine also brought examples of his work and how they demonstrated some of the techniques of the old masters.