Art Blog - Foothills Art Association

Mary Leffler a member at Foothills does beautiful watercolor portraits by commission. Take a look in her gallery in the Foothills section… Continue reading… 0 comments

collage with gold leaf multicolor elephant wildlife recycled art Won first place at San Diego Hospice Show January 2012 Won two major awards at the San Diego County Fair… Continue reading… 0 comments

This watercolor was painted as a plein air on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Library… Continue reading… 0 comments

This is a collage created almost entirely from recycled magazines. (The sun is gold leaf) I worked on this by grading the magazine photos by value and then treating the value sketch (gridded up onto 24_36 piece of black matboard from an 8,5_11 b/w photograph) like the base for a big big jigsaw… Continue reading… 3 comments

These things really creep me out especially when they start to fly!!! But you have to admit that they do have interesting design qualities… Continue reading… 2 comments

Another portrait of Mr. Bojangles. This one is a real close-up of him "meditating". He is probably plotting his next disaster… Continue reading… 0 comments

I found this gem "growing" in a friend's garden and decided to paint it before nature claimed it as her own… Continue reading… 0 comments

Pastel pet portrait double matted 9_9. This is a sample of a pet portrait commission. Prices start at $90.00 for a matted 9_9 on Wallis paper done from the owner's photograph… Continue reading… 0 comments

This painting won the Mayor's Choice Award in the recent "Masters of Moment " show in El Cajon California. There are only about 400 of the pure bred wildcats left and they have been declared an endangered species. They have been hunted to near extinction as their territories have shrunk. In addition interbreeding with feral cats has reduced the strain… Continue reading… 2 comments

This piece was created for a Wildlife in Art Show in California. I wanted to combine a threatened species with a "green " theme. There was a heap of discarded NGM s in our clubhouse library so I decided to "recycle" them! It took about three weeks and 37 magazines to assemble and made the most amazing mess in my apartment! I worked on a three value drawing on black Canson paper... and I have never gotten around to counting the number of animals in the picture... but the nostril of the beast is the birth canal of a male seahorse! Collage created from recycled National Geographic magazines… Continue reading… 3 comments