SAA Meetings

Saturday, October 15, 2011

October 15, 2011, Jorge Bernal

Jorge Luis Bernal, a painter, printmaker and mixed media artist, was our 2:00 guest.

His artwork is inspired by a variety of interests: the exhilaration of playing with color, texture and space;working and layering with encaustic paint and the fragmenting of architectural images.

He is deeply touched by Rothko, Gottlieb, Motherwell and Kandinsky;

as a trained architect he tends to follow an order system, a structure.

He believes his allegories-collages provide a narrative and pays homage to them.

He showed slides and told about his encaustic work.

A member of Rockville Art League, he won best in show at the last RAL show at Glenview.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

September 2011, Donna Baron

Donna Baron discussing her art.

Members attentively observing.

Donna Baron did a demo for the SAA meeting on September 17.
She showed the members how to simplify the painting process by concentrating on values and large shapes. She used acrylic paints but the same principles apply to oils. The first part of the meeting was for SAA business. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to the presentation by Donna Baron on simplifying landscape painting. Donna teaches classes on traditional acrylic painting and simplifying the painting process at Plaza Art. She currently works with acrylics because of their fast-drying property. She displayed the interesting talent of painting sideways which delighted onlookers. She narrated the process as she blocked in and developed the shapes within her painting, answering questions as she worked.