In this workshop in Monica Bryant’s studio we will paint the paper maché hearts we made the week before. We will learn techniques in painting such as underpainting and layering paint, collaging painted papers, acrylic skins, and some waterbased spray painting. Paints and materials will be provided.
A day 10AM to 2PM in Monica Bryant’s studio making paper maché hearts learning multiple techniques with paper sculptures. We will cover objects with strips of paper. We will fold wet glued paper to mold into ribbon s or flowers. We will glue lace and string and other objects onto our hearts. In the end we will create two to three 3D hearts of different sizes. After the hearts have dried, the next Saturday we will paint them learning many techniques in part two of Heartfelt Workshop—Heartfelt Painting of Hearts. To sign up go to store
50 artists create 50 panels 6” x 6” in 50 days. It is a great exhibit and fundraiser for a great organization.
Visit Monica’s studio by appointment! Most afternoons could easily be arranged. See work in process as well as framed, finished work on display in her house and studio.
Hoping for Rain is sold but it is part of the series of encaustic like acrylic paintings that are for sale at the Bodega Art Gallery.
The Persistence of Beauty was Inspired by the way artists and others everywhere have responded to the challenges of repeated fires, evacuations, closures, political upheaval, isolation and the stubborn march of Covid. We set out to assemble an exhibition that expressed the abiding presence of tenderness, tranquility and simple beauty in the world, in spite of difficult circumstances.
Artist Statement by Monica Bryant
This painting is part of my series of black bird paintings of crows. I completed this in October 2021. For art trails a fellow artist gave me a crow’s nest that was found in a tree taken down on her property. It was astounding to me to look at it. Crows are the subject matter of much of my art currently. It began mostly in response to the color black.
I have taken pictures of crows in my backyard as well as in Yosemite. To see the crows better, I have studied photos of crows in the public domain, as well as my own pictures and sketches. What I like in drawing is the mark making in the process of recording what I see. I like the erasures and covering up along with confident direct marks that happens in the process. Birds and nature have been in the background of my experience. For the time being they are in the forefront of my imagination and attention.
Come visit 6 artists in Inez Storer’s studio to see out paintings, photography, sculptures and mixed media—all for sale as we approach the holidays.
Visito this fun holiday event. I will have some of my newly painted ornaments of Crows and Cardinals as well as some paintings.
Welcome to Sonoma County Art Trails in beautiful Sonoma County Wine Country. Our juried professional artists invite you to EXPLORE Sonoma County, ENGAGE with artists in their own studios and COLLECT beautiful art.
Since 1985, the Art Trails self-guided tour gives visitors fabulous opportunities to learn first-hand from the artists what inspires their art, how it is made and where it is made. Art Trails is held in the Fall, the perfect time of year to enjoy Sonoma County, see fabulous art, find a terrific holiday gift and treat oneself to a special piece of art that will enliven your home or office. So mark your calendars, bring your family and friends and bask in the enjoyment of Art Trails!
Mixed Media: Mixed-media paintings and drawings based on photography.
Studio Number: 81
Showing at:
2625 Fir Park Way
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Wheelchair Accessible?
No
Who knew at the time where these lives would go? Where will we go? Who will we be? Destination unknown....
Nicole Irene Anderson, Lynn Beldner, Caetlynn Booth, Steve Briscoe, Joy Broom, Monica Bryant, Deborah Hamon, Carrie Lederer, Ari Salomon, Inez Storer, Martin Webb, Nancy Willis, Ron Zak
Uncertainty makes it difficult for us to predict what decisions to make and how to act. For most of us, the COVID-19 pandemic may be one of the first times we have had to deal with a long-term, volatile and seemingly uncontrollable situation. Has art been a respite or form of escape? Or do artists lead us down a path of better action and solutions? This exhibition surveys a group of Bay Area artists to consider the question “Where do we go from here?”
Tribute is a national exhibition that features paintings from artists from across the country. This exhibition is open to 2D fine art and fine craft in all paint mediums. In theme and content, artworks should pay tribute to a person, place, or thing of great importance to the artist. The Tribute exhibition at d’Art Center is in honor of Barbara Fulp. Barbara was a resident artist at d’Art Center who passed in 2019. She is greatly missed by all who knew her.
This exhibition is open to all artists living in the United States and is held at the d’Art Center in Norfolk, Virginia. The d’Art will also showcase the work of Barbara Fulp in its new solo gallery: The Vault.
The exhibition will be co-curated by gallery manager Amanda Bradley, and exhibition juror and Artist Ken Wright.
Exhibition dates: Friday, April 9th - Sunday, April 25th 2021
Reception: Opening Reception and New Location Grand Opening
April 9th 2021, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Corrick’s Stationery, Gallery and Gifts is returning to the theme of HEARTFELT, which was the theme of an exhibit cut short in early 2020. Over 3 dozen local artists offer work in the themes of love, tenderness, and devotion.
Two mixed media works from my The Thing with Feathers Series are in this exhibit. Corrick’s is a beloved store on Santa Rosa’s Fourth Street. Kevin Brown and Sally Baker exhibit Sonoma County artists.
Graton Gallery and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts have collaborated to present artists from Art Trails, AATS and SAVOS Open Studio Artists. The exhibit is in the Graton Gallery. :
9048 Graton Road
Graton CA 95444
Saturdays and Sundays
from 11am - 4pm
and by appointment.
To arrange an appointment please call Sandra Rubin: 707-823-4728.
Gallery phone: 707-829-8912
Gallery e-mail: info@gratongallery.net
This painting was created in July of 2020. I have painted Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) numerous times since 2016. She gives me courage by her example. As a white artist, I researched ways to paint dark skin. It seems profound that you use the same colors to mix white skin tones, you just add more pigment. The intense red underpainting in the background shows through in the edges like an aura around her.
I admire her trust in something good and much bigger than our individual lives. The title is from a quote attributed to her; “I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.”
Two works from my new series “The Thing With Feathers” will be in a bicoastal online exhibit called Wild Tangents curated by Ann Trinca from Perch Art House.
Monica Bryant—Artist Statement
Wild Tangents
My wild tangent is to look to nature for hope. In March and April of this year it was quiet outside. Road noises were nearly absent, and I didn’t hear planes and helicopters flying overhead. I noticed birdsongs. Although I feel concern for people losing their jobs and income, I welcomed the slower pace that emerged. I have a cabinet of the picture files my artist mother had collected over the years. I randomly chose to use her images of a cardinal and a goldfinch to add to my mixed media paintings. Emily Dickinson’s poem Hope is the thing with feathers powerfully expresses the persistence of beauty in our world. It seems so important to appreciate the free birds among us and to work a bit like them, scratch the ground, gather material for your nest, take a bath, fly, and sing your song. Like birds, live moment by moment and experience awe. It is hopeful to me the way nature has rebounded so quickly when the human stresses have been lessoned. This work is in my new series of mixed media paintings called, the thing with feathers.
My mixed media painting We Are Strong includes layers of paint, printed, brushed, dripped and layered on thick with tools. The Cardinal was printed and glued into the painting early on and then strengthened with cadmium red hue. The Cardinal has symbolized many things to people. I saw one three times this summer. I read that this might be a sign “that you might be doubting your strengths and the bright red bird is a reminder to check your confidence and move forward no matter the obstacles in your path.” I took that meaning as true for me and a reminder to all to know our power and strength. Hence the name We Are Strong.
Speak Up is a mixed media painting that includes a Goldfinch. This little bird sits on a purple cornflower or echinacea purpurea. The pattern above from an Indian block print suggests lines of music to me. To see a goldfinch, is a positive and optimistic sign. I feel we should speak up and sing our song.
With climate change and the extreme weather and fires we have experienced in California I can feel very pessimistic, but when I focus on my love for the earth and the life I have, I’m hopeful.
“Hope is the thing with Feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,”
I am delighted to be included in a new bicoastal virtual exhibition curated by Ann Trinca (Bay Area) and Caetlynn Booth (New York). Wild Tangents looks at recent work from artists who have tuned into inspiration from unexpected places. A “wild tangent” can be a mere distraction, or a journey from which you never return. Click over to https://anntrinca.com/wild-tangents to see both exhibitions. On view through January 23, stay tuned for interactive programs and tours.
"Yves" is a from a photograph I took in the book shop of the Yves St. Laurent Museum. The influence of Marrakech is clearly evident in the beautiful designs YSL made. To paint over this image I recalled the sinuous images of snakes in his fabrics along with the colors of Morocco.—Monica Bryant July 2020
Artist Statement:
Guides created in June of 2020, was inspired by Black Lives Matter. I did not march during this tumultuous, stirring time out of caution for the corona virus. I am glad to create this art in support of the movement. I appreciate the chance to be included in an exhibit in response to what is happening. I have painted Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) numerous times since 2016. She gives me courage by her example. I admire the way she trusted God and followed the North Star to gain her freedom from slavery and then went back into danger to free other slaves. She is a model for young women today. She was a general in the Civil War. She was a strategic thinker. She founded a home for elderly African Americans.
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The courage of women who lead us to freedom in the past inspires me. My work overpainting women such as Harriet Tubman and Louisa May Alcott is an act of connection with them. Their lives were so much more than the photographs that were left behind. I find looking closely and painting over and into the images is insightful. I connect to their great steps into independence and freedom. That courage is in men too, such as Abraham Lincoln. I also look for a broader connection to all life (such as crows, lemons, etc.) by modestly painting and photographing them. I agree wholeheartedly with the concept “freedom is an ongoing work in progress, producing magnificent beauty as well as grievous devastation.” It is good to look at the past 100 years.
Artist Statement:
I completed This is Your Land in 2018. I edited and painted over my 2017 painting which was titled America First?. It was a response to the news of the day and the extreme disruption in the American history narrative. I made silhouettes of women and signs and hats from the 2016 women’s march following the inauguration of President Trump. This is Your Land includes a photograph of our television screen, printed and mounted on canvas. It is an image of Netanyahu and Trump in 2017. I painted in other world leaders and their flags: Theresa May and the British flag, Shinsō Abe and the Japanese flag and Justin Trudeau and the Canadian flag. The leaders have been obscured and the silhouette of a US map is visible. There is a horizontal line mid painting that evokes the division in the United States today. The floating figure images surrounding our capital and our country are the good spirits that are working for us in the background.
Thank you, Santa Rosa Art Center, for this exhibit in honor of the 19th amendment!
Lemon Squares: Artwork by Monica Bryant
for CRIMINAL BAKING COMPANY in Sebastopol
I am delighted to have my art in the Criminal Bakery Shop! For Criminal Bakery I have printed my mixed media painting, Lemon Speak, on metal in squares. I call these prints Lemon Squares in honor of baking. They can be arranged as Lemon Speak or hung individually. Also included in the exhibit are larger mixed media works of lemons on panels that intensified the lemon images with both opaque paint and glazes of color.
Growing up in Kansas citrus trees were nearly nonexistent. The stories my depression era parents told of getting an orange in their Christmas stocking makes me grateful for the citrus trees I see in California. I have photographed orange trees many times over the years. Recently I began using the photos in mixed media paintings. Part of the reason was simply balm for my soul. I wanted to paint and celebrate beautiful earthly things. The lemon paintings began when my neighborhood friend started giving me lemons from her abundant tree.
This mixed media lemon work is of the dialogue between photographs I took of the lemons, the memory of painting them in watercolor, and a general feeling of happiness from lemons. I wanted to just see the lemons. It is magical to be painting lemons. I glued my photographs of lemons that I had printed on cotton and then I drew lemons from memory and from the photographs. I painted on the photograph with glazes of paint. I connected the ladder like blue lines that are part of a still life set up I have. The central lemon is balanced by the activity around it. The texture of the cotton wrinkles from my imperfect gluing became a trace of the uncertain process I followed. Adding a touch of violet in the unoccupied spaces made the lemons come alive.
Lemon Squares and my citrus series celebrates the visual beauty around us.
Thank you for your interest in my Painting into Photographs workshop!
Sunday Nov. 10th 11am to 3:30pm
Create mixed media art with your photographs! Bring printed photographs and I will provide the rest of the materials. For your prints I recommend making duplicates of three or more 8 x 10 photos so you can try different techniques on each one. Bring prints that you like. They can be landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, interiors, or of objects. I look forward to seeing the selection you make!
I often print on Epson Presentation Paper Matte. https://epson.com/For-Home/Paper/Presentation/Presentation-Paper-Matte/m/S041062
If you can’t use that, card stock or heavier flyer paper will work. At many places you can print your photo on canvas or metal. Bring that if you can. I have not had success with glossy paper.
I will show you how I glaze over the image with subtle colorization and how I cover the photos with thick and thin paint. I will show you how to mount your photograph on a panel. I will not be providing panels for you. You can get them at art supply stores or even bring something you already have like a cabinet drawer or a wooden box for mount. Mounting your painted photograph is optional. Here is a link to the list of supplies I use.
The class will be limited to six people due to studio space. If the weather is nice we can use the outdoor space adjacent to my studio.
The cost will be $100 each with a material fee of approximately $10. To sign up and pay in advance go here. You can email me to hold your space.
I look forward to seeing you!
You will see portfolios to browse at Mo Ni Kai Art Studio. In this picture you can see the mixed media painting called Swedish Gate. This was created after Monica Bryant’s visit to Sweden in 2015.
Bodega Head White is an over-painted photo of Bodega Head on the Sonoma Coast. The impasto white paint is swirled in imitation of the waves. I tried to capture the immersive experience of standing on this dramatic California coast point.
Harvey Mendolson is exhibiting my watercolors and mixed media work, along with other artists, at his new gallery space at the 6th Street Theater Lobby in Santa Rosa.
Additional artists:
Elizabeth Peyton, Kathleen Thompsont &
Julia Stege.
We are also happy to have a string trio from the Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Orchestra w/ director June Shelly performing at our reception.
Saturday, June 15th 4-6 pm
Red Shoes Gallery
(6th Street Playhouse/ Studio Theater)
52 West 6th -Santa Rosa harvey@redshoes.gallery
707-592-4949
My home studio will be open for Art Trails! See where I create, both inside and outside! I’ll demonstrate and share. I’ve arranged a variety of my mixed media work for you to see. I hope you can come by!
Saturday and Sunday October 13-14 and 20-21, 2018
10am-5pm
Sculpting week at Camp Montecito. Join me, as I teach the ancient craft of sculpting with clay.
Date: July 23-27 (Monday-Friday)
Location: Montecito Heights Health Club 2777 4th St Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Time: 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Cost: Non-members $290.00, Member $249 (discounts will be given when your account is charged)
For Ages 5-12
