Weaver Shares Landscaping Techniques

Sharon Weaver, a California landscape artist who works with oil paints, will be the demonstrating artist during the Loma Linda Cultural Arts Association (LLCAA) monthly meeting, at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 2, in the Senior Center building at the Loma Linda Civic Center. Admission, paid at the door, is $3 for non-LLCAA members and $2 for members. The Senior Center is at the southeast corner of the city administrative complex located at 25541 Barton Road in Loma Linda. For the LLCAA meeting, her subject will be “How to See” and “Blocking in Large Shapes”. Weaver, who was recently juried into the Oil Painters of America 20th Annual National Juried Exhibition, is an artist of such enthusiasm that she describes her painting experience as almost a compulsion, “a wonderful and exciting experience.” This quality is borne out in her thrilling and colorful landscapes of the Southwest. She first expressed her inborn “passion for art” as a fashion designer, after her graduation from the Parsons School of Design, in New York. After years of world travel, she fell in love with California, and decided to make her home surrounded by the natural beauty and open spaces of the west. The Redlands-based “Art for Heaven’s Sake” recently featured her work. As well as plein air oil painting, Sharon Weaver teaches figurative drawing; she also currently teaches two online classes with Artists Network University. From January through March 2014, Weaver’s work will be exhibited at Blinn House in Pasadena, and at Galeria Gitana, in San Fernando, California. You can also find her work at www.SharonWeaver.com.