Thursday, April 25, 2024

Meet Spring Obsession 2024 Artist Jan Palemone

 Jan Palemone Art Resume

O-017 Land-and-Sea by Jan Palemone wc 22x18 750


Jan Palemone was born and raised in Sonora, California and is the daughter of George and Dana-Sue Palemone. She studied art history at the University of California, Davis and received a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art and an Art Teaching Credential from California Statue University, Sacramento. She has taught art in a variety of venues of rover 20 years. Her passion is to share her love of art and to impart the fundamental elements of art and design to her students.

Jan worked for the Stanislaus Arts Council for five years and coordinated their STARS Art Reach to Schools program.

In 2003 Jan completed the California Arts Project (TCAP) Collaborative Design Institue, Visual and Performing Arts Standards Training Program. Jan has also taught visual arts standards-based workshops for elementary school teachers in Tuolumne County.

Jan was the art consultant for grades 3-5 for Columbia Elementary School for two years. She was also the art consultant for Basics and Beyond elementary and high school students for two years. She also taught for the California Gold Camp for 3 years.

Jan coordinated annual G.A.T.E. Art Saturdays for elementary students through the Tuolumne County Superintendent of Sch9ools office.

She taught art for 15 years through the Central Sierra Arts Council's Arts Reach program in the public schools. She taught hundreds of classes to third to fifth grade students. The classes included: coral reef collage, floral and butterfly paintings using basic watercolor techniques, two-point perspective historic buildings, one-point perspective landscapes, handmade paper and Victorian marbling.

Retired from teaching in the public elementary schools, Jan joined her mom, Dana-Sue Palemone and twin sister, Jill Figler in teaching weekly adult watercolor classes. The family of artists has showcased their art in numerous Palemone Studio Shows.

Painting primarily in watercolors, Jan's subject interests encompass floral, abstract collage. One of her specialties is creating unique handmade paper collages. She enjoys helping beginning and intermediate artists explore their unique creative abilities, while teaching them about the basic elements of color, design and perspective drawings. Jan enjoys sharing her love of art and the Lord by combining bible verses with calligraphy and design.

Jan's paintings have been included 8in several Gallo Spring Shows, Kautz Ironstone Winery Shows and she has won awrds in several Mother Lode Art Association Art Shows.


Most recently she has focused on combining multi-media artwork with calligraphy bible verses.







Meet Spring Obsession 2024 artist Robin Mooney

 Robin Mooney - Cupertino, California


Nearing the end of a 36-year career as a Civil Engineer and worried about what trouble I might get myself into during my retirement, my wife and sister-in-law conspired. For a birthday, they surprised me with paints, brushes, paper and a week-long watercolor workshop with Dale Laitinen. While I was obviously in way over my head, I greatly enjoyed that workshop. I have returned to Dale's Virginia City workshops to paint and reconnect with friends for most of the last twenty years.


After using up my allotment of classes in furniture design and sculpture at De Anza College, my artistic endeavors now focus on watercolor. I especially enjoy painting with my friends, Ron and Popi Tyler in Santa Rosa.


It was with Popi's 3encouragement and support that I have entered a painting in the theme category for the second time. Each of these entries experimented with the use of gesso to supplement the primary use of watercolors. These paintings are a departure from my usual paintings of landscapes with architectural elements and a Virginia City theme. 


T-022 Tres Amigos #3 by Robin Mooney wc 11.5x15.75 $400


Meet Spring Obsession 2024 Artist Michelle Thornburg

 Michelle Thornburg - Artist's Statement

O-087 Mermaid-Dreams-by Michelle Thornburg acrylic 33x27 $800

My style of creating artwork is painting from the subconscious. There are no carefully planned sketches, no grids, it is just me and my paint with no expectations of anything but painting. I use my hands to apply the paint directly onto my canvas, no rules, just whatever feels right. The key for me is to let go of the conscious world around me, and just paint, allowing my hands to take the lead. Eventually the painting reveals itself. It's like daydreaming on a canvas. 


Artist's Biography

O-088 Yellowstone-Moon-by Michelle Thornburg acrylic 36x36 $800

Michelle Thornburg is a California Artist and Art Teacher living and working in the Central Valley. She creates dream like paintings from her subconscious using the Surrealist technique of automatism, or automatic painting. Her technique of using mainly her hands to apply acrylic or oil paints to the canvas allow her to connect with her artwork. Her paintings are created by applying paints onto the canvas in various color, patterns, and movements. Her paintings are often reworked and go through many changes before they are completed. These expressive paintings are full of fanciful images and colorful landscapes.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Meet Spring Obsession 2024 artist Janette Jones

 Janette Jones

O-012 Gray Day Blues by Janette Jones oil 12x12 $395

The comments heard most often about her paintings are "they make me feel joyful", "lift my spirits", and "they are filled with a sense of light and lightness". As an artist who is constantly looking for the beauty of light in every subject, this is music to her ears. As a person who is wildly optimistic about life and positive about the future, she is thrilled her paintings reflect this "joie de vivre" attitude and bring joy to her collector. Janette uses a strong sense of design, personal color mixes and an intimate point of view to create her distinct style.

 

O-011 Six Mile Morning by Janette Jones oil 24x48 $1200 JUDGES MERIT AWARD

Meet Spring Obsession 2024 Artist Lucinda Johnson

 Lucinda Johnson              https://lucindajohnson.com   

O-070 Secret-Places-on-the-Pacific by Lucinda Johnson oil 6x6 $225 FAMILY MERIT AWARD

Lucinda is an award-winning, California-native artist (born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area). Art has always been at the center of Lucinda's life. "As a child I enjoyed drawing from nature to become familiar with graceful lines, form and space. I am also very conscious of composition, shapes, lighting, and values from my photography education" she says. Through self-taught studies and workshops with professional artists in a wide array of mediums, art has always been a way for me to share California's unique personality and vistas. Lucinda began experimenting with oils in 2020 and shared "I approach an oil painting with a similar thought process to painting with soft pastels." When painting a landscape on canvas she first primes the canvas with warm undertones. Additional layers are next added dark-to-light. Using a palette knife she first mixes the correct values on the palette, and then proceeds to paint/blend colors on the canvas (wet-on-wet) or layer glaze with brushes.

O-071 Mendocino-Blooms-by Lucinda Johnson oil 6x6 $225




O-072 Autumn-in-Etna-by Lucinda Johnson oil 12x19 $575

Meet Spring Obsession 2024 artist Penny Mcclenahan

 

O-083 Greenie by Penny McclenaHan pendulum 12x16 $225


My name is Penny McClenahan and I am a fluid artist. I love COLOR and like to incorporate ultraviolet reactive paints into my art.  My husband and I have lived in Angels Camp for 34 years and raised our two children here. I love our community and everything it offers.


O-084 Dragon Hair by Penny McclenaHan acrylic 11x16 $175 SOLD


My artis reflective of my personality and my love 9of color, sharing, and putting smiles on people's faces. The art for lends itself well to a creative and experimental artist like myself.

I thank you for looking and hope my pieces put a smile on your face and bring you joy. People who know me would tell you PURPLE is my favorite. Please ask about commissioned pieces.  Enjoy

O-085 Ocean Partyt by Penny McclenaHan mm 12x12 $150

Meet Spring Obsession 2024 Artist Vaughn Lew

 Vaughn Lew

O-097 Buttermilk Dawn by Vaughn Lew pastel 12x21 $615


I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. Art isn't something I was int5roduced to it was something I did. We lived on a cattle ranch when I was young and that outdoorsy life has been a big influence on my art.

O-098 Jawbone Dream by Vaughn Lew oil 18x24 $615


My art education was pretty low key until college. 
Sacramento State exposed me to DeWitt, Whistler, Jayne and Dr. Tarmo Pasto - They had a lot to say.


Mr. Jayne was a "Who's Who in American Art" artist and Dr. Pasto was an early pioneer of art psychology. He lived for form and space.

After college I taught art and humanities at Elk Grove High School. If you really want to "know" art, teach it. I can honestly say that was the toughest job I ever had. The questions never stop and energy is always high. I taught five years at Elk Grove with some adult education in several places but ended up in construction. Art production was low then, but I was always leaning to art.


We moved to Murphys in 2008, built a home and discovered Ironstone Winery, and the art show that changed everything. The support has been great, and I have always enjoyed participating in the show. I have wone several family merit awards, a second place, and had my pastel accepted for the poster.


I have also entered and won awards at he Carnegie in Turlock and the Mistlin Gallery.


My mediums are primarily oil and pastel with an occasional Prisma color.





Meet Spring Obsession 2024 Artist Carol Leonti

 Watercolor painting = It's

all about joy!

O-010 Munching by Carol Leonti wc 22x14.5 $1100


Enriched by great teachers, (Christopher Schink, Frank Webb, Popi Tyler)

O-064 Ruffled Feathers by Carol Leonti wc 18x13 $1200


by friends who paint and,


by dedicated work in our beautiful Northern California landscape



Carol Leonti

c.leonti@me.com

www.cleontiwatercolor.com