San Diego Art Museums

L. A. Bus, 18" x 24" oil on canvas

Dear Friends,

I went to Balboa Park to see the Sorolla exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art. Wow! What can I say, so humbled when I see his work.  

While at Balboa Park there were so many scenes that I wanted to capture on paint even though few days earlier I had gone with my friends on a photo shoot, which is what inspired me to do a new series on Balboa Park. Stay tune for the paintings, which will be part of 30 paintings in 30 days challenge I have once again entered, and starts September 1, 2014.

Above is painting number 5 in the series "California Driving". I do love the way it turned out.

I have a booth at Restaurant Row in San Marcos on the first Sunday of September. I do hope to see you there if you are in the area.

Love,
Glad

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Los Angeles Art Trip

Gladys Jimenez at L. A. Museum



Dear Friends,

I spent 8 days in Los Angeles and just fell in love with the artistic side of the city again. If only they had less traffic and parking wasn't so hard. I was lucky to go see the exhibit at LACMA, which had the Van Gogh to Kandisky exhibit!

I was in heaven seeing actual works from the masters, including Marc, Picasso, Cezanne and many others. It was wonderful to see these paintings up close and trying to figure out how each piece was created. 

I was also able to give a private art lesson while in Los Angeles.

My art workshop was fun and frustrating! It's so hard for me to paint from realism to abstraction. While I can paint non-objective and abstract fine, when following the way our instructor wanted us to do it I felt overwhelmed.  I like what I created but it's no where as abstract as I would like it to be. Perhaps in time I could learn to let go and be more lose with my paintings as a tool, as I feel it would be good to know how to paint that way. For right now I do like the way I intuitively paint and continue to work on my California Driving series.

Will post photos from workshop and my current painting on my next blog.

If you are in LA go see their current exhibit and if in San Diego, go see Sorolla's exhibit. I am looking forward to seeing it myself this week.

Love,
Glad

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