October 2011 Meeting
by Linda Capaci
What a fun evening, October 13 at the El Toro Library! DORI DEWBERRY honored USPA
not only with her beautiful painting, but with her
expertise in pastel and her great sense of humor. She
was very much at ease as she joked with her captive
audience.
 Dori says she gets excited about composition and
color and can't wait to get started, however she is still
struggling to understand value...really? I think she
understands it quite well as was evident when she
began demonstrating. We were all blown away.
Dori worked on U-ART (500 grade) paper which is
softly sanded and began working with Nu-Pastels then
went to Terry Ludwig's soft pastel for broader strokes
occasionally integrating Nu-Pastels on certain areas.
Some members had concerns about Nu-Pastels not
being archival. She had no worries with that aspect
and said as far as she knew they were.
 After doing her preliminary sketch, she brought out
paint! We were in awe at the idea of using paint as
an under painting. Dori said by using this method
she was trying to relate color to value. These paints
were pure pigment water based and she loved them
because they were so vibrant in color. The paints
were Guerro Paints from N.Y. where she purchased
them while doing a Kitty Wallace workshop. (Guerro
Paints are on the internet if interested.)
 She randomly applied red paint to all the foliage
(complimentary to the green, but said she does not
always use complimentary colors) and yellow for the
sky. She then applied a deep thalo blue for the shadows...gorgeous! She later dried the paints with a
hair dryer and began applying her pastels. What
beautiful results this made, so vibrant, the greens
popped over the red. She says she likes working with
Robert Burridge's Color Wheel, she feels it's colors
are more true then other wheels and gives her a
better perspective on what colors she is going to use.
Dori enjoys putting in colors she feels the eye doesn't
expect to see. In her deep shadows she added a bit
of deep purple and it looked fantastic. She tends to
randomly pick colors, has no idea what she is going
to use and it's not preplanned but somehow it all
comes together beautifully.
As usual, a raffle was done at the end of the meeting
and the lucky winner was Berry Keller. He walked
away with a beautiful landscape, an original Dori
Dewberry!!!
Want more Dewberry techniques? She does a
workshop at Santiago college. Or, visit:
dewberryfineart.blogspot.com.
Meeting Archives
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March 2011 Meeting
Minnie Valero gave us an effortless demonstration utilizing suede board and techniques that she’d learned through trial and error, workshops with Alicia Sotherland, and a portrait workshop in France.
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February 2011 Meeting
USPA members got a real treat this month with world renown artist Louise Lopina. Louise is well known for her beautiful wildlife and demonstrated that talent to members by painting a young giraffe she photographed at a zoo.
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January 2011 Meeting
Renowned artist, Sally Strand honored USPA members with her expertise, advise and knowledge of selling art and yourself.
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December 2010 Meeting
At our December meeting, teacher and artist Gary Blackwell demonstrated his wonderful talent for USPA members.
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October 2010 Meeting
Working on Wallis paper, Ada Passaro made her preliminary sketch with charcoal on a grid of 9 squares.
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August 2010 Meeting
Our August 12th meeting at the El Toro Library featured a demonstration by USPA's own Ede Streiff.
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 June 2010 Meeting
Alicia Sotherland
Alicia Sotherland presented the demo
at our June 10th meeting at the El Toro Library. Those in
attendance were "wowed" as much by Alicia's stunning painterly
portraits as by her effervesant personality. She made fans of
us all and she conjured up a portrait before our eyes on
her favorite mount, suede matboard.
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May 2010 Meeting
Joann Quinlivan
Such an entertaining lady our past president!! As
charming and delightful as her paintings!!
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April 2010 Meeting
Scott Jones
USPA member Scott Jones presented the demo at our April meeting at the El Toro Library, where he shared his technique of using an India ink wash to build up the values of his underpainting before applying pastels to the surface. In Scott's own words...
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February 2010 Meeting
September McGee
Our February meeting was the second demonstration hosted at the studio of September McGee.
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Our Next Meeting
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Elizabeth Wallace's studio, Saturday, January 14, 2012 -- Elizabeth Wallace Demonstration and Tour
Our January 2012 meeting will be at the studio of 2011 Festival Artist Elizabeth Wallace from 10:30 am to roughly 12:30 pm and will feature a demonstration by Elizabeth and a tour of her studio. The location is 19241 Jasper Hill Rd., Trabuco Canyon, CA 92679. As all art studios are a bit tight, we would like to be able to give Elizabeth an "as close to possible" head count, so please let Maria know if you are planning to attend. Elizabeth Wallace is a painter who is interested in the bio-diversity, resilience and beauty offered by the native chaparral environment in California. She explores symbolic meaning in the landscape as well as figurative interaction with the environment.
Her still life compositions illustrate how inanimate objects can reveal the inner workings of our lives.
Wallace studied Fine Art at the Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach, CA and has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa.
You can lerrn more about Elizabeth and her work by visiting her website: http://www.etwallace.com/index.htm
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