Laguna Plein Air Painters Association

Featured Signature Artist: Jane Hunt

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LPAPA Signature Artist Jane HuntJane Hunt of Denver, Colorado
LPAPA’s April 2019 featured Signature Artist Member of the Month.

Click these links for: LPAPA Plein Talk with Jane Hunt & Artwork Showcase, plus more at JaneHuntArt.com.

“Even though I paint a lot of studies on location, my landscapes are actually less about describing a specific place than they are about the feelings evoked.  In an impressionistic, tonal style I hope to convey the emotional connection that I had with each scene.  Moving cross-Atlantic three times in my early years, I spent much of my life with an underlying sense of homesickness.  This yearning propelled me to create a sense of ‘home’ within my landscapes.  My greatest hope is that my work gives its viewers this same sense of comfort and connectedness; a gentle place to rest.” — Jane Hunt

Click here to visit Jane’s website and learn more.

LPAPA Signature Artist Jane Hunt

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Featured Artist: Stewart White

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LPAPA Artist Stewart WhiteStewart White of Baltimore, Maryland
LPAPA’s April 2019 Artist Member of the Month

Click the links for: LPAPA Plein Talk with Stewart White & Artwork Showcase, plus more at StewartWhiteStudios.com.

Stewart White is a watercolorist from Baltimore, Maryland. He is one of the rare plein air painters using the medium of watercolor. His background in architectural illustration adds to his skill set and his paintings reflect his knowledge of good design. Stewart’s paintings have the pleasing combination of good structure with a painterly style. He is a transparent watercolorist in the purest tradition of watercolor painters. Where as watercolor expresses its nature as fluid, oil paint is stiff and seems to want to be expressed in a thick and buttery way.

Click here to visit Stewart’s website to learn more.

LPAPA Artist Stewart White

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ART STARS ALIGN FOR LPAPA PRESIDENT

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Laguna Art Stars 2019

LPAPA’s President and Social Media Director Toni Kellenberg was honored with an Arts Leadership Award during the 13th annual Art Star Awards on Sunday, April 7th, 2019. This annual event is sponsored by the Laguna Beach Arts Alliance.  Over 200 Laguna community members kicked off the event with a red carpet reception and champagne and hors d’oeuvres on the terrace. Rosemary Swimm, LPAPA’s Executive Director and chair of the Laguna Beach Arts Alliance, which sponsors the awards, welcomed the attendees. The Alliance was established in 2002 as a partnership among more than 20 Laguna Beach organizations to advocate for the arts, promote collaboration and networking among the arts organizations of Laguna Beach, and to serve as a united voice for the arts in the city.  Click here to read the full article in the Laguna Independent.

Toni Kellenberg 2019 Arts Leadership Award
Toni Kellenberg receives LBaa 2019 Arts Leadership Award

Turn a So-So Scene Into a Winning Composition

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LPAPA Signature Artist Daniel Marshall

LPAPA Signature Artist Daniel Marshall shares that sometimes as artists we are blessed with a perfect composition before us, but most of the time editing is required! Editing allows us to better translate a scene and present the story we want to tell with our art. Too often we can get caught up in just trying to duplicate, not create. Click here to read the full article in American Watercolor Weekly.

Order LPAPA’s 20th Invitational Book

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20 years ago a tradition was started – The Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational. Each year the best of the best plein air artists are invited to come to Laguna Beach to paint and to celebrate the legacy of the early plein air artists who established Laguna Beach as an Artists’ Colony, founded the first Laguna Beach Art Association and opened the first Art Gallery in 1918.

The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA) is considered the steward of Laguna’s artistic heritage, and our mission is dedicated to preserving the plein air legacy and painting tradition for future generations.

We celebrate our 20th anniversary of the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational with the publication of our first hardbound book. This special 20th anniversary book, authored by Mr. Jean Stern, the leading authority on plein air art and Director of The Irvine Museum Collection at UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, is a recording of the Invitational history and showcases the top award-winning artists who have helped LPAPA further its mission to celebrate and preserve the plein air painting tradition.

Best of Show: Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational 1999-2018

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