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Focus On: The Modern West

Mid-Century Memories
By Virginia Campbell
California artist Melissa Chandon paints minimalist images with a palette that gives them emotional depth.

Metaphorically Speaking
By Wolf Schneider
Myth and metaphor influence Jean Richardson’s modern renditions of the horse.

Everyday Realism
By Devon Jackson
John Pototschnik captures the essence of ordinary moments and scenes.

Spirit of the Animals
By Bonnie Gangelhoff
In bronzes finished with exotic patinas, Robert Deurloo takes a fresh look at all kinds of creatures.

My World
By Bonnie Gangelhoff
A visit with Miguel Osuna at his studio in downtown Los Angeles.

The Quiet Side of Native Life
By Gussie Fauntleroy
Hyrum Joe portrays the heritage and traditional ways of his Native people.

Split Personalities
By Norman Kolpas
Some of today’s top artists divide their time between realism and abstraction.

Seriously Funny
By Gretchen Reynolds
Six artists view life with imagination and wit.
On the Cover: Farm House With Trees by Melissa Chandon.

STILL HOT FROM APRIL

FOCUS ON: WILDLIFE & ANIMAL ART

Animal Attraction
By Wolf Schneider
Diane Mason creates bronze sculptures of the animals that live on her property and the wildlife that wanders by.

Up Close & Personal
By Norman Kolpas
Top animal artists rely on wild game farms to help them closely observe their subjects.

A Lifetime Calling
By Norman Kolpas
Texas sculptor Jason Scull powerfully portrays the western ranching heritage that is in his blood.

Change in the Air
By Virginia Campbell
Angus Macpherson’s paintings reflect transformation in both the natural and human realms.

A New Natural History
By Devon Jackson
Timothy Chapman’s fanciful menagerie has its roots in historic illustrations.

My World
By Bonnie Gangelhoff
A visit with Leo Osborne at his studio in Guemes Island, WA.

It's a Dog's Life
By Gretchen Reynolds
Six artists turn their attention to our loyal canine companions.

From Borrego Springs to Balboa Park
By James Lightner
The new book Land of Sunlight celebrates works by 100 painters who capture the beauty of San Diego County’s diverse terrain.

RELATED FEATURES

Nine artists explore this unique medium
By Albert Handell and Anita Louise West
Pastel does not refer to pale colors, as the word is commonly used in the fashion and cosmetic industries. Pastels are made with exactly the same pigment used to make all art paints. Powdered pigment, mixed with a little water and a special binder, is ground into a paste, rolled into sticks, and left to dry. The name comes from the French word pastiche, meaning paste. It is a painting medium with a full range of artistic possibilities. In the hands of a skillful artist.

Native son Ray Roberts paints the California landscape
By Bonnie Gangelhoff
Ray Roberts is squinting as he stands near his portable easel on a sun-drenched November morning. He’s eyeing the light as it illuminates the Glenmore Plaza Hotel, a lemon-yellow Victorian structure situated near the center of picturesque Catalina Island, just off the coast of California.

Louisa McElwain’s life and art are thick with atmosphere
By Gussie Fauntleroy
Louisa McElwain serves almond tea in a red-and-white polka-dot tea set, with raisin and chocolate chip cookies baked by her two young daughters. Assorted animal sounds—the sporadic shrieking of cockateels, the soft scuffling of a lop-eared rabbit across the smooth floor, and the chattering of a guinea pig named Albert (as in Einstein)—fill the room, along with warm sunshine filtering through flowers and tomato plants on the south windowsill.

Oil painter Po Pin Lin applies a love of nature fostered in his native Taiwan
to the sights of Northern California
By Norman Kolpas
About two years ago, while on a skiing trip with friends in the High Sierra town of Truckee, CA, Po Pin Lin looked up into the sky and beheld a sight he had never before seen in his 29 years: falling snow. “It was incredible,” he says with a smile, the awe he felt then still evident on his face.

Wyoming artist Linda Lillegraven seeks out the unconventional view
By Vicki Lindner
Linda Lillegraven is traveling across Wyoming from her home in Laramie to the Buffalo Bill Art Show in Cody, where she will show her luminous pastel and oil landscapes for the fifth year in a row. For Lillegraven, eager to shun the speedy but dull interstate, the less-traveled roads to the show provide a 350-mile opportunity to look for new subject matter. Oblivious to Wyoming’s oft-painted snow-covered peaks and glacial lakes, she is scouting out a slightly more disturbing dynamic what some might call emptiness: prairie, light, horizon, and dust.

A visit with painter John Poon at his studio in Jackson, WY

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