Colorado Expressions
June 22 - July 17, 2010
RECEPTION AND AWARDS
June 26, 5 - 7 pm
Guests at the reception study the artwork and enjoy the delicious refreshments.
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1st Place Winner David Roepke, for his oil painting "The Sangres"
3rd Place Winner Paul F. Foster for his watercolor painting " Friend in Winter"
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2nd Place Winner Evelyn Sprouse Rowe for " Blues N' Bronze" acrylic on yupo
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The judge for Colorado Expressions is Coni Grant.
EN PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP, June 21, 2010
Coni demonstrated how to plan for a plein air painting in a 3 hour workshop, then continued the instruction by demonstrating how she paints a plein air landscape. In this photo her subject can be seen in the distance-- a small home attached to the Bakery.
Here Coni is showing students how she applies oil paint, always telling them why she is doing what she is doing, explaining how she chooses paint colors--transparent vs. opaque; warm vs. cool.
"Evidence of frozen hands dragging stiff paint over the surface of a board, marks in the paint made by rain, or grit blown into the paint layer by wind, this is plein air. In spite of this, or maybe because of it, working outside is its own reward."-Coni Grant
Here are three of her oil paintings on display (and for sale) in the Colorado Expressions show.
Coni Grant is an expressionist landscape painter, both
versatile and visionary. Her colorist paintings vibrate the senses and
present a view of nature, full of emotional energy that can be, at times
challenging and thrilling. She first picked up a paint brush at age 4 and by
the time she was eleven her art pieces were selling in a California gallery.
She earned her B.F.A. in Graphic Design from California State University
Long Beach. In 1981 she moved to San Francisco where she was an art director
in an advertising agency and later, creative director in her own advertising
design studio.
Coni’s career in graphic design stretched over 20 years and included
design work for clients such as Levi Strauss, The Los Angeles Master
Chorale, Pratt and Lambert, Visa Corporation, Southern Pacific Railroad, and
The Bay Chamber Symphony Orchestra. During that time she also taught Senior
Graphic Design at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in San
Francisco, worked with the San Francisco Society of Illustrators, and served
as Artist in Residence at the San Mateo First Presbyterian Church. In 1995,
Coni turned her attention to painting full-time. In 1996, she earned her
California Teaching Credential and became an Adult education, Oil painting
Instructor for the Monrovia Unified School District in California.