Monthly Meetings
Meetings with demonstrations are on every fourth Friday from 7:00pm to 9:00pm, with the exception of our Installation and Awards meeting usually held in January or early February, July (no meeting), November which is the 3rd Friday, and December (no meeting). For more information, click the Contact button.
February 3, 2024 (Saturday) Installation and Awards Luncheon, Harry’s Hofbrau, Trophy Room, 11:30am-1:00pm: Members may bring spouses or guests to this meeting as it is our only annual social get together. This is a no-host event. After installing our 2024 Officers, we will also present our Annual Popular Vote and Sable Brush winners. If you are unable to join us, your award ribbon and check may either be mailed or presented to you at the February 23, 2024, meeting.
February 23, 2024 (Friday) Guy Magallanes (watercolor), Veterans Memorial Senior Center, Goldstar Room, 7:00pm: Guy is a native San Franciscan who is self-taught and has painted since childhood. His Grandmother knew he would be an artist because he was more involved in painting the walls and curtains with his food rather than eating it! Guy made the decision to finally call himself an artist in 2000 and made the transition into a full-time artist in 2007. His work is published in the following “Splash” books 9, 10 and 15 and is one of Splash 15 artists selected to contribute to “Watercolor Secrets” all by North Light Books. He started teaching in 2005 and continues to teach workshops and weekly classes, mostly at his San Carlos Studio.
March 22, 2024 (Friday) Robin Scholl (watercolor/pastel), Veterans Memorial Senior Center, Goldstar Room, 7:00pm: Robin Scholl has been painting in her Los Altos studio and teaching at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto for more than 30 years. She is known for impressionistic landscapes with a focus on light and color in the natural world. She works from photographs taken during her wide travels and favorite California scenes, using four media: oils, watercolor, watercolor with pastel, and watercolor with gouache. Her signature layered technique builds up the media, creating movement and depth uncommon in watercolors. She holds a B.A. in studio art and a teaching credential in arts instruction from UCSB. Her classes in watercolor, oil media, and landscape drawing are popular favorites at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. She served on the Board of Directors for seven years, retiring from that role recently. She has been affiliated with galleries across the United States, including Mona Berman Fine Arts in New Haven, CT, Corporate Art Directions in New York, NY, Greenleaf Gallery in Saratoga, CA, The Equinox in Chicago, IL, and Nathan’s Gallery in Carmel, CA. Her work has been commissioned for large scale by corporations and recognized in three different statewide competitions at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, as well as in juried shows at the Santa Cruz Art League and the Pacific Art League. Scholl exhibits currently at Fast Frame Gallery in Los Altos, the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, Marcella’s Village Gallery in Menlo Park, the Portola Gallery in Allied Arts, Menlo Park, and online at RobinScholl.com.
April 26, 2024 (Friday) Denise Howard (colored pencil as a fine art medium), Veterans Memorial Senior Center, Goldstar Room, 7:00pm. Denise grew up on a Missouri farm surrounded by animals and nature, drawing constantly. She earned a BA in Art and a BS in Math/Computer Science concurrently from Truman State University, and later an MS in Computer Science from Ohio State University focused on computer graphics. She worked for several Silicon Valley companies, was one of the developers of iPhoto at Apple and earned movie credits on ANTZ and SHREK at PDI/Dreamworks. Software engineering left little time or energy for creating art for 25+ years. Finally the urge to return to her art became too strong to ignore, so she committed to it as a second career and soon received local, national and international recognition and awards for her realist colored pencil and graphite work. She is the author of “101 Textures in Colored Pencil” (Walter Foster Publishing 2017) and a co-author of “The Complete Book of Textures for Artists” (also Walter Foster Publishing 2020). She is a Ten-Year Merit Signature Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA) for which she is also the President. She is also a Silver Signature Member of the United Kingdom Colored Pencil Society (UKCPS) and lives in Santa Clara, CA.
May 24, 2024 (Friday) Alan Hart (photography), Veterans Memorial Senior Center, Goldstar Room, 7:00pm. Like many, Alan Hart began his photography life in his teenage years and the film camera became a means of recording memories of mountain climbing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. While the mountain climbing and the documentation of its landscape beauty continued in his college years he also expanded his photographic interest as the photography editor of the California Engineer magazine, a student published journal of UC Berkeley & UCLA where he learned image-based story telling. Post-college the mountain climbing gave way to a technical career in semiconductor technology and photography became intermittent as well. Unbeknownst at the time, he would contribute to the future of digital photography through the development of electronic systems that enabled flash memory technology to produce non-volatile memory storage, more commonly known as SD and CF cards and solid state disc drives. By the mid-2000’s Alan replaced his SLR with a DSLR and his second act in photography began. After attending several workshops on digital photographic methods he decided a faster way to learn was to create his own workshop. With good friend and fellow photographer Roger Mullenhour they started the Focus in Paradise Photography Workshops in Kauai, Hawaii in 2010. The following year they brought the workshop to Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA alternating with the Kauai venue for several years. Since then Alan has been involved with the Dischler Photography Workshop in Palo Alto also teaching the art and science of image capture and subsequently joined the Center for Photographic Art in 2019. In 2022 Alan joined Art Bias in San Carlos where he has a studio/gallery and in 2023 curated and produced the Nature’s Stories Photography Exhibition of 10 Bay Area photographers. Alan’s images have won numerous awards in the San Mateo County Fine Art Galleria series, been seen in Black & White Magazine, and displayed at the Monterey Museum of Art, Asilomar Conference Grounds, the Advantest America Corporate Art Gallery in San Jose, the PJCC in Foster City, and in many private collections. He continues to be drawn to unique forms of nature in the hunt for compelling images that describe world we inhabit and the environment we impact. Visit his website at https://alan-hart.pixels.com.