Just a heads up, the gallery will be closed for a week from Monday August 30th - Tuesday September 7th.  We are sorry for any inconvenience, but because of the Street Fair in downtown Orange, it just too difficult for people to get here.  We hope you all have a happy, safe and fun Labor Day and we’ll see you September!

Benefit from informative daily demonstrations, ample one on one help, and friendly critiques.

We are pleased to host a workshop with this very popular watercolorist. Frank says about his paintings: “My favorite subjects are visually complex, but I don’t transfer drawings to watercolor paper and I hardly mix any color on my palette. I paint fast and loose. I capture most scenes - like the one in Colorado Landscape (watercolor on paper, 22 x 30) - in two to three hours max. Because I paint fast and loose, colors run, shift and mix together. To balance all these color changes, I include less detail to illustrate my subjects. My paintings are anything but simplistic, however. Too much uniform vagueness (or for that matter, uniform complexity) destroys rhythm, which is all important in my work.

He learned to blow glass using the team approach and worked with many artists including Dale Chihuly. Nowak’s work is very influenced by the maritime Pacific Northwest. He lived on Mercer Island as a child and that early experience is reflected in his work.

Katie’s creative skills and ease with spatial design allowed her to quickly ramp up in the field, leading to the creation of one-of-a-kind pendants, earrings, tie tacks and bracelets.  She also collaborates with Francis Lai-Wang who adds sterling silver and precious stones to select pieces.  In addition to jewelry, Katie designs custom backsplash tiles for kitchens and bathrooms as well as knobs and pulls for drawers and dressers.

Katie graduated from Concordia University, Irvine in 1999 with a major in Humanities with an emphasis in Art.

Over the years Judy has studied with notable watercolorists including Roger Armstrong, Rex Brandt, Gerald Brommer, Keith Crown, Millard Sheets, Robert E. Wood and Milford Zornes.  Her primary subject matter is the landscape preferably painted on location.  In addition to painting in the United States, Judy has traveled to England, France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Western Samoa, and French Polynesia.

Judy’s work has been featured in both individual and group exhibitions, and is collected by both private collectors and corporations.  She was one of 17 artists selected worldwide to pen a chapter for Work Small, Learn Big: Sketching with Pen & Watercolor, a book published by International Artist Magazine in 2003.  In 2006, at the invitation of the Orange Public Library Foundation, Judy created 13 paintings representing the history of Orange for the new main library History Walk.  She is currently collaborating with author Elisabeth Deffner on a publication of a book that explores the history of early schoolhouses throughout Southern California.

Judy received a B.A. with a Special Secondary Credential in Art from the University of Redlands.

Jim is a signature member and past president of both the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor West and has also achieved signature membership in the Nevada and San Diego Watercolor Societies.  His paintings have been published in the Best of Watercolor, People in Watercolor, and Watercolor Expressions. He has served as a juror for both national and local art exhibitions.

Know for paintings that are bold, spontaneous, and directly applied, his watercolors have been juried into national exhibitions. Tom’s work has been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist, American Artist, and was included in an article “20 Great Teachers” in the collector’s edition of Watercolors by the American Artist. He was also featured in “North Light Books, Splash 6″ and in “My Friends, Today’s Great Masters”, Jack Richeson Fine Arts Series.