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Date: 10/8/2025
Subject: SOCALPAPA OCTOBER 2025 Bulletin - Week 2
From: Anne Kupillas

OCTOBER BULLETIN

What's Inside:

- This week's Paint Out: Saturday @ :30 before Sundown: City of Orange NOCTURNE

- This month's Special Guest Artist: Kelly Mogilka!

-Details on our October Paint Outs

-Shipley Paint Out & Sale event

October's Special Guest Artist Demo

Join us for a Special Guest Artist Demonstration by award-winning figurative artist, Kelly Mogilka. Kelly lives in Laguna Beach and is a teacher at LCAD. She is nationally recognized for her evocative figurative oil paintings. In this demo, Kelly will provide insight on how to pose a live figure within the landscape to tell a visually compelling story.

Saturday, October 18th from 9am to 11am
The Artist Studions
3251 Laguna Canyon Rd Unit F4, Laguna Beach

Please note: this demo with live model will take place in a gathering space behind the studio building.. There is parking on site, but be mindful of the other artists with studios in this space and do not park in front of their studio doors.

Space is limited so please RSVP HERE

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.

PAINT OUTS

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/

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