Category: Mixed Media

Kathleen Scoggin

10/16/2019

October 2019 Demonstration

Kathleen Scoggin (kathleenscoggin.com) is a multimedia artist and instructor located in the Southern California desert.

Kathleen is a contemporary abstract artist working in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media. Her work is inspired by nature and expresses organic subjects inviting the viewer to see and be aware of the beauty around them. The work is based on unique texture techniques to describe the varied earth forms that are all around us. Her art is created to help the viewer see and be aware of the electrifying beauty of nature but still create mystery. She paints commissioned portraits of dogs and cats of all breeds.JURIED & JUDGED EXHIBITIONS: San Diego Watercolor Society, Coachella Valley Watercolor, Palm Springs Art Museum Artist Council Exhibition, Riverside County Date Festival, Lake Oswego Festival of Arts, Watercolor Society of Oregon, Village Gallery of Art, Pacific Northwest Plein Air Show, Oregon Society of Artists, Rose Festival Art Show.

INVITATIONAL AND GROUP EXHIBITS: Two Woman Exhibit – Two Babes With Brushes, Palm Desert Visitors Center & Desert Art Center; Art On The Edge Group Show UCR -Palm Desert; Lake Oswego Visions Invitational, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, Lakewood Art Association; Art in the Burbs, Frame Central Solo Exhibition; Art Media Show, Art Exhibit in Portland City Commissioner’s Offices.

AWARDS: Multiple Awards, San Diego Watercolor Society; Multiple Best in Shows, Coachella Valley Watercolor Society; Best in Show & Judges Award of Excellence, Riverside County Date Festival; Best in Show, Coachella Valley Watercolor Society Plein Air Show
EDUCATION: Basic Design, Fine Arts Coursework & Art History, Oregon State University, Portland State University & Chemeketa Community College, Dietetic Internship, Massachusetts General Hospital, B.S. Dietetics and Institution Management, Oregon State University

Six Members

12/19/2018

December 2018 Demonstrations—Six Simultaneous Members!

RAY TUCKER
I enjoy all art mediums, but my favorite is acrylic. Its’ ver- satility allows me to explore my favorite subject, the land- scape, in my own unique style. My process puts together the elements and principles of design in a impressionistic interpretation. I emphasize color, light and the poetry of the subject at hand. My landscapes are the result of my imagination, not from photographs or onsite observation. The result is combination of vistas that I have seen in my travels through the landscape.

MICHI IKEDA
When I paint with water- color I focus on colors and shapes by rearranging what I have in front of me. I studied with Tom Fong for years and have taken classes and gone on some trips with Chris Van Winkle. George Haft was
3 my beginning teacher.

VALYA HRISTOVA
When I paint I like to be spontaneous... to stop thinking and just trust my intuition. Sometimes I like to leave some things out or give little hints. This way I can encourage the viewer’s to use their imagination to (mentally) complete my piece in a personal way, and engage them deeper into my work.

FELICIA HAZELTON
I discovered Yupo and TerraSkin paper about 4 years ago and now have to force myself to use anything else to paint on. Both surfaces are made from synthetic polymers and were initially made for the advertising industry for sighs, bags, posters and banners. This substrate floats the paint on the surface ethic creates cute a challenge in control but fits my personality for its “happy accidents” and constant surprises of chance. It gives an advantage of being useful for imaginative compositions in either watercolor or acrylic which rubbing alcohol, col-
lege, ink, pencil and caran d’ache crayons may be added for additional textures. While I love painting nature items,
I have become addicted to rocks and canyons as sub- jects. Painting 3 days a week motivates me to paint more and inspires me to share
my work in numerous area shows and area completions. Let the fun begin.

LYNNE FEARMAN
I love to play with paint when not painting in plain air. So I play with dark masses and look at it until it speaks to me and suggests a pattern or a scene. I love to make up scenes and sunsets and forests. I enjoy abstracts too, which may be my plan for this next meeting.

ARMANDO RUIZ
Armando is motivated to communicate his impressions through abstract art. He is combed to communicate the feelings and emotions, which exist in nature and scriptural subject matter through abstract expressions. His goals are directed to communicate the beauty, complexity and mystery of creation. He hopes to generate art which provides enjoyment to the viewer and enhances an appreciation of the author of life.

Jan Wright

9/19/2018

September 2018 Demonstration

Our own MVAL member Jan Wright began painting watercolor almost 20 years ago. As she studied with various instructors, she found herself on a fascinating journey—traveling to hundreds of painting locations, viewing thousands of paintings and creating hundreds of her own. That journey has led her to embrace non-objective subject matter (although tree forms will always finish a close second).
She believes we are hard wired for art. Every primitive society produced art, advanced societies value it and current art forms using new technology abound. Art is at the center of humanity. Visual art transforms the ordinary by combining imagination and creativity with visual experience and re-visioning reality. In addition to celebrating the familiar, the visual artist has an obligation to take viewers beyond the obvious by engaging them as participants in the re-visioning process.