Clairemont Art Guild

Clairemont Lutheran Church

4271 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92117

Board Meeting at Noon

General Meeting/Demonstration at 1PM

 

Our demonstration will be colored pencils by Brenda “Blade” Villega.

Blade remembers her childhood as being filled with crayons and coloring books. Today, using colored pencils is connecting with that ongoing need to express art, yet on a more sophisticated level. Colored pencils offer her a myriad of possibilities from intricate details to abstract, vague impressions. She describes her resent work as somewhere beyond Photo Realism.

She has received awards and shown her work in student shows and galleries in Redding, California, where she attended Shasta College.  She continued her studies in Southern France, for two years, after college.  Now residing in San Diego, California, she has participated in shows at The Art Institute, Spanish Village Art Center and various other venues. A current member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, CPSA, she shows with the local chapter and has received over fourteen awards to date.

Today her days are filled with art, not only her own but the many students she teaches and mentors. Blade has also won “First Place” for the last three consecutive years at the CPSA DC202 Annual Award Show. Her work can be seen on the local CPSA DC202 website, cpsa202.org, in the gallery section.

 

In October, we will have a tour of the Watercolor Society Gallery for the International Watercolor Show.  This is always an exceptional display of art from many countries.  Details next month.

 

***The Storefront Gallery will be open after the meeting to change out your art.  This will be the last time this year that the gallery will be open to a group.  We will have an off-site meeting in October, so we will not access the gallery again until January 0f 2019.  We will not move the gallery back to the other location until 2019.  For sales of art, please contact Marilyn Nelson***