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Date: 8/20/2025
Subject: SOCALPAPA AUGUST 2025 Bulletin - Week 3
From: Anne Kupillas

AUGUST BULLETIN

What's Inside:

- RSVP now for Friday's Special Guest Artist Demo with Danny Folkman

10:30 am at the Muth Center

- New Hortense Miller Garden Showcase

- Save the Date: Mammoth Lakes Paint Away this October!

- Schedule of August Paint Outs

Hortense Miller Art Show and Sale 2025

All current Members of SOCALPAPA are invited to enter and participate in a show and sale of artwork this fall at the Hortense Miller Garden in Laguna Beach, CA. This is a show for those who have taken advantage of the opportunity to visit and paint at the gardens throughout the year.

SOCALPAPA and Hortense Miller Garden are presenting a show and sale opportunity for artists this fall.

This non-juried show will consist of a maximum number of 20 artworks by SOCALPAPA artists.

Paintings must be of the Hortense Miller Garden property, or a view from the property, captured during visiting hours.

Paintings can either be plein air or studio paintings.

All works will be displayed in the Hortense Miller Aviary Gallery, inside the historic Mid-Century Modern home built by the Millers in the 1950s.

This is a non-juried show for SOCALPAPA members only.

All paintings must be for sale, and all sales must be handled by the artist directly with the client.

There is one more painting date on the calendar:

Saturday August 30

Contact Diane Lannon at diane.lannon@gmail.com

to reserve a spot to paint and get parking information

For the full prospectus and to register, click here:

Save The Dates!
October 2-6, 2025
Mammoth Lakes Fall Color Paint Away Weekend
With SOCALPAPA

Three full days of painting the spectacular fall colors and beautiful scenery of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains around

Mammoth Lakes, CA.
Plan ahead and make your reservations early. There is no charge for the trip. Visit the SOCALPAPA website for all the details and information, and to register your plan to attend.

RSVP for Mammoth Lakes Paint Away 2025

Meet August's Special Guest Artist: Danny Folkman

While I enjoy painting all kinds of scenery, LA is my lady.

We first met on a family vacation when I was 14. Growing up in New Jersey, I can't say I had been particularly inspired by the overcast skies and flat suburbs of the east coast. The year-round sunshine, diverse scenery and laid-back lifestyle of Southern California seemed like paradise. I was smitten.

I have been drawing as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until my junior year of high school that my art teacher pushed me to start painting. I did not attend any art school or college, but instead sought instruction from my favorite professional artists through books, workshops and online courses. The workshops gave me the opportunity to explore the country and solidified my love for plein air painting and the west coast.

I thank God every day that I get to live in the place I love to paint.

Join Danny on Friday, August 22 @ 10:30am

at the Newport Beach Back Bay Muth Center

for a gouache nocturne demo (see details below)

RSVP NOW

PAINT OUTS

Friday, August 22

10:30am

Newport Beach Back Bay Muth Center

Gouache nocturne demo by Danny Folkman

It will be painted inside from photographs. This is a good opportunity to get nocturne tips for our SOCALPAPA nocturne outing sometime in September or October, location of that TBD.

Restrooms inside the Muth. You might get there early and paint outside before the demo,

or stay after and paint in the afternoon, so bring lunch.

Park in the street by the back gate, or the black building lot by the cul de sac,

or the Muth lot above by the corner of University and Irvine Ave.

"Swirling Sky," gouache, Danny Folkman

Saturday, August 30

9am

Irvine Ranch Historic Park and Library

13042 Old Myford Road, Irvine

Near corner of Irvine Blvd and Jamboree. Restrooms. Paint the grounds, old farm equipment and old migrant housing,

or the Library and farm buildings, or Palm tree lined curved Road. Park in the library lot.

Did you know there are several ways to find out about the paint outs?

• Weekly Bulletin

• MeetUp group online

• Website events calendar

• Facebook & Instagram

ALSO

Occasionally our group gets approached for plein air painter referrals.

If you would like to be included on a roster, please email info@Socalpapa with your name and phone number.

Make sure to put "Referrals List" in the email subject line.

SOCALPAPA ZOOM

Zoom Group invites you to join us

every Thursday, from 10am -11am

This is a time for members to share their art, get feedback and connect with other artists over the web. All levels are welcome.

If you are not ready to share, join us anyway and get inspired!

Follow link below to join.

The passcode is 229461

Zoom

Discover the SOCALPAPA Meetup Group and join our thriving community of plein-air painters in Southern California.

Get the latest updates, find out who is joining (we have 279 members now!) and connect with other artists on events such as our weekly paint outs, paint aways, Zoom meetings, special events and showcases!

If you haven't already joined, head over to the MeetUp website and join the group - it's free!

Your artistic community awaits you.

https://www.meetup.com/socalpapa/

GET SOCIAL!

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