Warren Chang born in California in 1957 graduated the Art Center College of Design in 1981 and has had a 20-year career as a freelance illustrator, illustrating close to 200 book covers from 1990-2001.

His work has won awards from the Society of Illustrators of New York and Communication Arts Magazine. Since 2001, he has devoted himself full-time to the fine arts and has taught drawing and painting for ten years at Pratt Institute in New York and currently at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His work has been profiled in American Art Collector, Southwest Art, Artworks magazine and is the subject of the cover and an eight-page spread in the April 2007 issue of American Artist. His awards include "Best of Show" at the Salon International 2003 held in Texas, 2nd Prize in the International Artist Magazine competition in 2004 and the Southwest Art Award at the 2008 California Art Club’s Gold medal exhibition.

This year his work was featured twice on the covers of International Artist Magazine accompanying his 7 part series of instructional painting articles he authored. His interest in painting follows the traditions of 19th century classical realism. Primarily a figurative painter, he captures the figure in contemporary environments, which include biographical interiors and outdoor genre paintings of fieldworkers of Monterey County where he grew up.

http://www.warrenchang.com

Karl Dempwolf was born in Delmenhorst, Germany, immigrated to the United States in 1951. Dempwolf received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State Northridge. He continued his art education by attending Art Center College of Design and at USC achieved a Master of Fine Arts degree. With an interest in art and photography, Karl made numerous educational films and Documentaries.

Dempwolf chief inspiration in fine art is drawn from the zenith of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, a time that he believes gave the art viewer. Dempwolf has won numerous awards for his painting, including the Art of California Magazine's Silver and Bronze Discovery Awards. He has been a finalist in the National Arts for the Parks competition each year since 1989 His works are included in the permanent collection of the National Park Foundation and at McGraww Hill Publishing Co. in N. Y. His work is included in a book on landscape painting published by Northlight Books. Karl is a Signature member of the California Art Club and serves on the Board of Directories as Documentarian.

Lynn Gertenbach graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art and then studied with the famed Russian painter Sergei Bongart, as well as Arul Raj in India and Bernard Dunstan in England.
Born in Racine, Wisconsin, Lynn studied at the Art Center Los Angeles, UCLA, and graduated from Colorado Institute of ARt in Denver. Upon completing her formal education she traveled extensively in the Middle East, India, China, Japan, Peru and Guatemala, painting landscapes and indigenous people as she explored the various regions of each country. She was invited by the Institution Cultural Noteramericano to have a one-woman show of her work in Peru, as well as in India and Switzerland. Though travel remains an essential inspiration for her work, Lynn calls California home. "I've often found inspiring subjects within a short distance from my home. Things I pass every day...then, suddenly see as dusk in a new light. I paint the environment I love to be in. My desire is to mirror positive and gentle emotions to those who view my work."
Lynn has completed over 20 one-woman shows, touring 9 cities in Japan. Each exhibition consisted of over 50 works, the culmination of her travels to Provence, Tuscany, Venice, Amalfi Coast, Giverny and California.
Lynn has received more than 30 gold medals from various California Art organizations, as well as the Life Achievement Award (Hall Of Fame Inductee) from the Colorado Art Institute. She has been a guest artist in the Artists of America exhibitions in Denver. Her paintings and portraits are in the collections of many well-known celebrities, including; Tippi Hedren, Zubin Mehta, Vin Scully, Diane Baker, Barbara Streisand, Marvin Davis, Burt Reynolds, and the Maharaja of Navanagar. Lynn is a signature member of: The California Art Club; Plein-Air Painters Of America; and Oil Painters Of America.

Bobbie Moline-Kramer is rooted in the Southern California Art Scene. She attended Cal State University, BA Fine Arts & Illustration, Long Beach, CA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena.She lives and now teaches in Southern California. Her ability to create life with her techniques and rich oils is astonishing. She has a great love and appreciation for reflecting surfaces because it allows her still life's to bend and break free from the restraints of reality.art has been in numerous group exhibitions.

Gregg Kreutz An award winning painter and author of the classic artist’s guide; Problem Solving for Oil Painters (now in it’s twentieth year of publication), Gregg Kreutz has been drawing and painting all his life. After graduating from N.Y.U., he pursued his training as a painter in earnest at the Art Student’s League of New York winning a merit scholarship. He studied with Frank Mason, Robert Beverly Hale, and, most significantly, David A. Leffel. After his training at the League, he signed up for the Washington Square Outdoor Art Show where we won best in show and from there was able to get in galleries and become a full time painter. He has won numerous awards including the Frank C. Wright Award, the Hudson Valley Art Association Award, 1986, the Medal of Merit (first prize in oils), Knickerbocker Artists; the Council of American Artists Awards, Salmagundi Club; the Grumbacher Award, Knickerbocker Artists; Most recently he won the Merit Award at the 2005 National Portrait Society of America.

He has had one man shows at Grand Central Galleries, New York, The Fanny Garver Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin,the Newport Art Association, Newport RI. and The Hilligoss Gallery in Chicago. He is currently represented by, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery (New York), Hilligoss gallery (Chicago), Fanny Garver Gallery, and The Wendt Gallery in Laguna Beach, California.
He teaches painting and drawing at the Art Student’s League as well as at The Fechin Institute in New Mexico, The Scottsdale Artist’s School, The California Art Institute, and workshops throughout the country. His videos are popular learning tools used by artists all over the world.

About making art Kreutz says, " For me, painting is an opportunity to learn what is meaningful. Each picture is a visual separation of the highly significant from the less significant. Painting is really a window into the essential.”
A quote from Problem Solving for Oil Painters. “Painters are fortunate in that they can convey large ideas with very modest means. And realistic painting is an especially rewarding endeavor, To actively go after it means to learn what makes art, and what the external world really looks like, and how the two can be fused.

Dan La Vigne has been a professional artist since receiving his bachelor’s in fine arts in 1981. He received his Masters in Fine Art in 1991. The Landscape locations presented in his work are mostly local and may be recognizable to you. His Still Lifes endeavor to tell stories by making use of objects and situations which further their quiet, contemplative narrative. Since moving to Ventura in 2001, Dan has presented his work in numerous group and one man shows up and down the central coast. He has become a prominent fixture in the local arts community, contributing work for the Ventura Music Festival, the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard, and the Ventura Cultural Affairs Division. He is a past president of the Buenaventura Art Association and a member of Oil Painters of America. He has taught at the VITA Art Center, Ventura Community College and currently teaches Plein Air and Still Life painting at The California Art Institute in Westlake. As an Illustrator, his paintings have graced numerous publications, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appetite, Los Angeles Magazine, and others. His work can be found in numerous private collections throughout the United States and is included in the permanent collection of Santa Monica College. He was recently honored by being featured in the inaugural edition of The Best of America.

Orbik has also worked for Marvel, Image, as well as for Universal concerning the “Hulk” movie; Sony for promotion of their Spiderman movie; created art for the “Dungeons and Dragons” games series as well as numerous book covers, most recently for two Ray Bradbury titles. Glen has just finished the new book cover for the latest Stephen King novel.

Background/Training:

George trained at the California Art Institute, the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Concept Design Academy, and Jeremy Lipking Studio. He has benefited from the instruction of many teachers including: Glen Orbik, Richard Schmid, Morgan Weistling, Carolyn Anderson and Jeremy Lipking.

He maintains membership in the Portrait Society of America and Oil Painters of America.

In addition to working on fine are and portraits, George teaches painting and drawing classes at the California Art Institute.

Johanna Spinks portraits and fine art paintings hang in public and private collections all over the world including:

Museum and art collection of Les Amis de La Grande Vigne, Dinan, France, two paintings in its' permanent collection after winning a coveted international art residency grant hosted by Dinan, 2009.
British Heritage Museum, Canada
Five portraits in the permanent prestigious art collection (including John Singer Sargent) of The Players' Club, New York. Spinks' portraits, Norman Rockwell, Angela Lansbury, Charles Laughton, Rex Harrison and Howard Lindsay.
The Forbes Family, Forbes Magazine, New York The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles The Reformed Theological Seminary, North Carolina Lesley Ann Down, TV's Bold and The Beautiful Davey Johnstone, Lead Guitarist, Musical Director, The Elton John Band Paul Sunderland, Sportscaster, Los Angeles Lakers Hospice of Wake County, Raleigh, North Carolina Grace Episcopal Church, South Carolina Ephiphany Church,Oak Park, CA Edwin Hugh Barron, SCIART Art Center, Camarillo, CA.
Sir Paul McCartney, authorized portrait for The Landmine Charity.

Johanna's work has been recognized by various art establishments with awards, published magazine articles, and juried show acceptances: The New York Times, American Artist Magazine, Art Talk, Ventura County Star, Ventura County Reporter, Ventura, Breeze, Malibu Times.

Awarded The Daler Rowney Excellence in Painting Award; Oil Painters' of America National Show; First Place; The Portrait Society of Atlanta, 2008; certificate of excellence American Artist Magazine; Jack Richeson Still Life Book Cover 2009; The Portrait Society of America, Certificate of Excellence for three years of service as CA State Ambassador; California Art Club Gold Medal Shows finalist with portrait and still life work.

Johanna continues to be invited to give public teaching portrait demos of her technique all over CA by various art groups and frequently donates her public portrait appearances, art work, and keynote speaker addresses, for charity events.

Johanna's recent Solo Shows include:

"365 Days of Drawing By Johanna Spinks", Vita Art Gallery, .2011

"Something Wrong About The Mouth", SCIART West Art Gallery...2009

"About Face", Gardens of The World Gallery..2007

www.JohannaSpinks.com

Tony Pro was born in Northridge, CA in 1973. He grew up in Southern California around artists such as his father, Julio (1929- ), who was an up and coming artist in the southwest art community. Being the youngest of 4 children, Pro was taken all around the country to some of the countries biggest art shows where he met legends like Jim Bama and Frank McCarthy. As a child, he also visited many studios of famous deceased artists such as E. Irving Couse and Nicolai Fechin.

Pro received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design from California State University, Northridge and at the same time attended California Art Institute where he studied with famed illustrator, Glenn Orbik. There he learned the value of academic figure and head drawing and how to apply strict study principles to his craft and, largely, trained himself to paint.

Pro's influences are the likes of John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Joaquin Sorolla and Philip Alexius de Laszlo. The French Naturalist artists like Emille Friant, Dagnan Bouveret and Jules-Bastien Lepage also play a large influence in Pro's style of painting.

In 2005, Pro was awarded the highly coveted Best of Show award at the 14th Annual Oil Painters of America Show, given by juror, Daniel Gerhartz. That year Pro, also, was one of the TOP 10 finalists of the Portrait Society of America Show in Washington D.C. Also that year, Pro’s painting “Mothers Love” was featured on the cover of Southwest Art Magazine, as well as a feature article.

Pro is a guest member of Richard Schmid’s Putney Painters and is currently privately teaching master classes in painting. In 2007, Pro started his production company with the production of Jeremy Lipking’s first demonstration DVD, The Portrait Sketch.

Currently, he lives in Westlake Village with his wife, Elizabeth and 2 children, Ian and William.

EXHIBITION LIST: For a complete list go to www.tonypro-fineart.com

THE CALIFORNIA ART CLUB, 2006-2009, ANNUAL GOLD MEDAL EXHIBITION, Pasadena Museum of California Art

AMERICAN ART IN MINIATURE 2006-2008, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

OIL PAINTERS OF AMERICA 15th ANNUAL, 2006 ART OF THE PORTRAIT, PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Dallas, Texas
--- AWARD OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT RECIPIENT---

NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION OF TRADITIONAL OILS 2006, Dana Gallery, Missoula, Montana
--- SCOTT A MATLIN AWARD OF EXCELLENCE RECIPIENT---

Tanenbaum is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society; one of 22 members out of 1300 members to be nationally certified by The American Portrait Society; one of only 350 that has been elected as an Artist member of the California Art Club, an associate member of Oil Painters of America.

Tanenbaum is fulfilling a lifelong dream of painting for galleries, his painting include, Native Americans , working cowboys, portraits and contemporary subjects. All of his gallery painting are now executed in oil on linen. He is currently showing his work in galleries in Sedona, Arizona; New York, New York; and Fairview, New Jersey. Recently he was greatly honored when he was made a blood brother of the Cherokee Nation.

A partial list of his corporate portraits include the previous three CEO’s of United Parcel Service (UPS), two for Texaco Oil, nine for Southern California Edison; six of which were posthumous, also a life-size full length posthumous painting of Howard Hughes for Hughes Aircraft, Wout van Bavel of Holland, Gary Jordan on his horse ‘Socks’ in front of Pikes Peak, Colorado, Don Raich with his 1963 Rolls Royce, F. Katiyama, past president of Nissan Motors USA, Frederick R. Weisman for the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation and authors Will and Ariel Durant. The computer magazine Reseller News commissioned Tanenbaum to paint portraits for articles of the top 25 Internet executives. The John Wayne family and The Franklin Mint commissioned Tanenbaum to paint 24 portraits of JW’s life. He has also painted many portraits of women, children and other clients with their horses.

Tanenbaum has executed numerous portraits for the movie industry and has been commissioned to do over 200 paintings of famous sports figures in Nascar, baseball, basketball, football, hockey and horse racing. For sports art he is represented by Quality Collectibles.

In the spring of 2001 American Artist’s Water Color magazine had an article depicting 16 of his casein painting. In 2002 International Artist Magazine had a ten page article on his color sketches and oil paintings. One of Tanenbaum’s paintings was used as example in Shiva Casein magazine ads and another for their color chart cover. Another of his oil paintings was used in Jack Richeson’s and Company ad for his Yarka canvas.

Steve Walters, received a B. A. degree in Design from Cal State L. A. and studied Advertising Design and Illustration at Art Center College of Design. For many years, Steve worked for various corporations in the Commercial Art field as a Graphic Designer, Advertising Designer, and Illustrator. He has also, studied Oil Painting with Vernon Wilson, Watercolor with Jay Mosby and has participated in various workshops with Milford Zornes.

Currently, he works as a freelance Designer and Illustrator while also teaching Painting at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village and Watercolor for the city of Burbank. He has studied Oil Painting with Vernon Wilson, Watercolor with Jay Mosby and has participated in various workshops with Milford Zornes.

Steve is a signature member of Water West, Valley Watercolor Society and a long-time member of the the San Gabriel Fine Arts Association. In 1991 Steve was honored with the First Place Award in Watercolor West’s Annual National Competition. He has won six national awards as well as many “Best of Show” awards in regional competitions. He has also exhibited at the Lancaster Art Museum and has been affiliated with various galleries over the past 14 years.

He enjoys painting wide range of subject matter, including still life, landscapes, figures. Steve paints simplified compositions which create attractive graphic shapes, pattern and interesting color, express mood and emotion, as well as a strong sense of light. Currently Steve is affiliated with galleries in Glendale and Thousand Oaks, Cal if.