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Date: 10/1/2025
Subject: SOCALPAPA OCTOBER 2025 Bulletin
From: Anne Kupillas

OCTOBER BULLETIN

What's Inside:

- This week's Paint Out: Friday @ 9am - Lookout Point, Newport Beach

-This week the club is Painting Away in Mammoth Lakes!

- Email Scam Alert

-Board of Directors Meeting information

-Details on our October Paint Outs

-Shipley Paint Out & Sale event

October 2-6, 2025

Mammoth Lakes Fall Color Paint Away Weekend
With SOCALPAPA

For those of you attending, this is the link to the full itinerary with all the details.

Mammoth Lakes Paint Away 2025

NEW EVENT

Save the Date!

More information coming soon on this same day event.

For now, save the date and also see the October 21st paint out at Shipley Nature Center.

SOCALPAPA Board of Directors Meeting

Thursday, October 9, 2025

11am

Location: Peter & Mary Muth Interpretive Center

2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92660

The SOCALPAPA meeting of the Board of Directors is today at the Muth Interpretive Center. While this will be a pure business meeting, all members are invited to attend. There will be an "Open Forum" section in the agenda during which members who are present may address the Board.

Email Scam Alert

We have received reports that some of our members are getting fraudulent emails that
appear to be from me, or another board member, requesting assistance with "gift
vouchers" or other unusual requests.
This is a scam. These emails are not real, and they are not from me or anyone on the
SOCALPAPA board.

Please be aware of the following:
 Do not open or respond to these emails.
 Do not click on any links.
 Do not provide any personal or financial information.

SOCALPAPA will never contact you in this way. We will never ask you to purchase gift
cards, gift vouchers, or handle confidential matters through an unannounced email.
While the sender’s name may appear normal in such emails, check the actual email
address which will likely be very different from my, or another board member’s known
email address. All official communication will be sent through our established channels.
If you receive an email like this, please delete it immediately. If you have any questions
or concerns, please contact me directly through my known email address or phone
number, not through the suspicious email.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,
Steve Sandborg
President, Board of Directors
Southern California Plein Air Painters Association (SOCALPAPA)
steve@stevesandborgart.com

PAINT OUTS

Friday, October 3

9am

Lookout Point

Newport Beach

3001 Ocean Blvd. Take PCH into Corona Del Mar, turn at Marguerite a few blocks towards the beach and go Right on Ocean Blvd down a few blocks to the small park at the corner where the street bends right. Park on street if available. Views of the Newport Harbor, or the rocks in Pirate's Cove, or look down S at the Corona Del Mar Beach. Restrooms down in the paid parking lot below by the entrance gate.

Saturday, October 11

Nocturne

30 minutes before sundown

City of Orange Plaza

Orange

Nocturne at city of Orange Plaza, Glassell St. and Chapman Ave.

Many different locations to paint. You may want to go a day beforehand to scout out what it looks like when completely dark.

Kevin Davidson will be mentoring any new people and also help in finding a good spot to paint.

The fountain in the center will be dimly lit, and there are few stores and restaurants offering good nocturne views.
Restrooms only in the restaurants themselves reserved for patrons, you may want to eat dinner there before painting. Parking is limited around the plaza, but there is a free parking garage 2 1/2 blocks away on Lemon and Maple if you can’t find a spot in the street or open air lots around the center of town.

Saturday, October 18

9am - 11am

Kelly Mogilka, Special Guest Artist Demo

Artists Studios, Laguna Beach

Artists Studios—3251 Laguna Canyon Blvd, Laguna Beach CA 92651. Unit F4.

Parking available in front of the studio, try to avoid blocking doors in front of other studios, may have to park in the Laguna Canyon Wilderness $3 lot down across the street. After the demo around 11am—you may want to paint at the Big Bend location by the lot.

Restrooms in the Artists Studios complex, also port a potty in the lot across the street.

Tuesday, October 21

9am

Shipley Nature Center

Huntington Beach

17851 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach.

Take the 405 Fwy and go South at Goldenwest towards the beach, a couple miles to a small parking lot on the right, just after Slater, across from the Huntington Beach Library. At the north end of the lot you’ll see a walking path going left 100 feet to the Shipley Nature Center entrance.

$5 suggested donation. Wear long pants, lots of nettles close to the trails. Get a map inside.

Views of the small ponds and trees. Restrooms available.

This is a good time to scope out possible painting locations for the official SOCALPAPA & Shipley Event in November. More details coming soon.

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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