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Art Lovers 30 | OHCC LIVING | AUGUST 2023 | e audience sat in rapt attention while our guest artist, Kathleen Scoggin, introduced by her former student Nancy Klapaak, created a beautiful abstract painting. Ms. Scoggins, who is also a nutritionist said she loves creating art and teaching art because it is fun and she meets so many nice people. In a little over an hour, she showed us, with the aid of an overhead camera, step by step, how to create your own painting. Here are some of her techniques and suggestions: Always use good quality thick, textured watercolor paper. Start with a collage with scribbly lines with black marker on tracing paper and tear into smaller pieces and glue to the watercolor paper. Be mindful of line, shape and color and use them in interesting proportions. Use a color wheel to determine your palette. Use complementary colors to create emphasis. Decide where you want your white spaces to be and draw them lightly with pencil or use a white candle. To keep your paints ready to use spray them gently with a water bottle. Turn paper over and completely wet the back side of the paper. at helps keep the paper from sliding around the large piece of Plexiglas that she uses. Kathleen does her paintings on a flat table rather than an easel. Use colored chalk to create lines and areas of contrasting colors. Start with the lighter, transparent colors and add darker and opaque colors later. She sprays water on the painting and makes the colors move around by moving and tilting the paper. She mostly uses a 1 ½ inch wide brush and creates wide strokes. For more interest and texture, she uses an old credit card to define more white space. She dips the bottom a toilet paper roll into paint for a circular design. For linear accents she uses a small piece of cardboard and dips it into dark paint. She fills her paintbrush with opaque paint and splatters it over the painting for more texture. Also use crumpled piece of paper towel to scrub out lighter spaces. August will see our club members on a bus trip to see the Georgia O'Keeffe & Henry Moore exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park. For more information about our club please contact Susan Pick at (760) 305-8907 or erniepick@netzero.net. ~ Susan Pick Classes are on Tuesdays 12:30 to 3 pm and on ursdays 10 am to 12:30 pm. For info, email me at jo.linda.marr@gmail.com. stained Glass