Mr. Jean Stern, Artistic Advisor to LPAPA’s Board of Director and Best in Show Judge for LPAPA’s annual Best of Plein Air and Laguna Plein Air Invitational, is featured in Irvine Weekly about his illustrious career and role as The Director of The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine, Institute and Museum for California Art. Click this link to read the full article: Irvine Weekly.
The 108th Gold Medal Exhibition opening March 3, 2019, presented by the California Art Club at the (former) Pasadena Museum of California Art, includes 53 LPAPA artist members! Congratulations to all of the artists, and in particular, to our LPAPA members: Suzie Baker, Cindy Baron, Nanette Biers, Scottie Brown, John Budicin, John Burton, Larry Cannon, John Cosby, Laura Culver, Toni Danchik, Rick J. Delanty Kathleen Dunphy, Esther Engelman, Aimee Erickson, Mark Fehlman, Tatyana Fogarty, Lynn Gertenbach, Brandon Gonzales, Laurie Hendricks, Carolyn Hesse-Low, Jeffrey C. Horn, Ellen Howard, Jane Hunt, Debra Huse, Sibyl Johnson, Paul Kratter, Shuang Li, Calvin Liang, Richard Lindenberg, Kim Lordier, Lee MacLeod, Patricia McGeeney, Jim McVicker, Clark G. Mitchell, Lisa Mozzini-McDill, Michael Obermeyer, Jesse Powell, Scott W. Prior, Camille Przewodek, Robin Purcell, April Raber, Pauline Roche, Jason Sacran, Anthony Salvo, Aaron Schuerr, Jeff Sewell, Micheal Situ, W. Jason Situ, Bryan Mark Taylor, Elizabeth Tolley, Michele Usibelli, Durre Waseem, and Wendy Wirth.
Click here to read Show Preview in SouthwestArt Magazine.
Click here to view LPAPA artists’ paintings in the Gold Medal Exhibition.
Image: “Winter Waters” by LPAPA Signature Artist Kathleen Dunphy
LPAPA Artist Keiko Tanabe explains her process for simplifying a painting in this January 2019 edition of OutdoorPainter…. How does one simplify a complex scene in a painting? Keiko’s approach to this question starts with having a vision. Click here to read the full article: OutdoorPainter.com.
LPAPA Signature Artist Larry Cannon will be exhibiting Malibu Lagoon at the Oceanside Museum of Art in the  National Watercolor Society’s (NWS) Southern California Inspirations: Past and Present exhibition through April 21, 2019. In addition to paintings by current members of NWS, the exhibit will include works by many 19th Century past masters of the watercolor medium.*
Larry is also profiled in feature articles in the February issue of Southwest Art Magazine (<- click the highlighted link to read the full article Larry Cannon | In the Flow) and in the upcoming May-April issue of Watercolor Artist Magazine.
*Other LPAPA artists also exhibiting in the NWS Exhibition at the Oceanside Museum include: Rick J. Delanty, Robin Purcell, Shuang Li, Keiko Tanabe, and Wendy Wirth.
Congratulations to LPAPA Signature Artist Cindy Baron who has been elected to join a select group of Oil Painters of America Master Signature Artists. Cindy Baron is nationally recognized in both watercolors and oils, painting the grand landscapes of the western mountains and coastal shorelines. In 2018, Cindy received the coveted “Best in Show” Award, as well as The Irvine Museum Award, in LPAPA’s 20th Anniversary Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational.
Click to read the full article: Fine Art Connoisseur’s Fine Art Today.
