Local Art Walk

Reese Owen Helman

I Love creating Art and I work primarily in acrylics, pen, ink and pencil. 

I started my art career with my sister Mason at the Age of 7 when we opened our first painted yard rocks stand in the driveway of our family house in Baltimore. Who needs lemonade right? We were able to support our Ice cream truck habit for about 2 days and then moved on to other endeavors like stair sledding and popcorn battles.

I studied at Baltimore School for the Arts where I honed my painting and clay skills and then backpacked around the US for a couple years with my sketchbooks. 

I worked at a small Raku ceramic shop in Eugene Oregon mixing glazes in the "beer brewing room" and using the make shift propane yard kiln freely.  I was completely mesmerized by the ancient Japanese Raku firing techniques.

 I am from Baltimore and have since lived in Oregon, Washington, New York City, Hawaii and I have my home base studio in beautiful Carlsbad Beach, San Diego.  My art is inspired by my adventures, The outdoors and it's creatures and also the phenomenal people I meet along the way.

Check out more on the artist website reeseowenart.com, Facebook Reese Owen Art and Instagram @thisisreese

George Hullenbaugh

Just got into oil painting a few months ago. Right now I enjoy painting portraits and painting in different hues of red. For the past few months I have been obsessed with the different styles of layering a thinning oil. Oil is definitely a different beast. Looking to hang a few of my painting up rather than store them a top my secretaries. A bad habit I have is between waiting for oils to dry I start a new painting. Constantly there is a circle of paintings in rotation. My favorite artist is Michael Hussar. His oil paintings are fa-nominal.

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Francesca Heyer

My work is created from layers of paint until I am happy, the final painting is then painted.

BOLD, BRIGHT AND PASSIONATE.

Self taught artist originally from UK. Love to paint. Color is my passion, the brighter the better, acrylics my medium typically, flowers, butterfly's, elephants and Buddha's my favorite to paint presently.

Check out more on the artist website and Facebook Art for the Heart from the Heart

Todd C Hummel

The beauty of the ocean is unsurpassed. Majestic colors, mesmerizing movement, and captivating sights all thrive below the surface and create a sense of peace and intrigue. It is an honor to be able to capture this dreamlike world and share it with others.

Todd Hummel is an advanced certified diver who has visited some of the world's top dive destinations, including Indonesia, the Great Barrier Reef, Cozumel, Cayman Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Aruba and many other treasured locations throughout the Caribbean.

Pete Harwood

My passion is capturing and sharing local natural beauty with my camera.

I've lived in North San Diego County side 1987. Raised a family and spent many happy hours on Oceanside beaches. The kids are grown and pretty much gone (there's one 23 year old on his way out) and my wife and I are Oceanside residents just a quick walk from the harbor and pier.

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Anne Hall

I am a local photographer that loves the beauty that Oceanside has to offer

I am retired and enjoying my passion of capturing those "special moments" I also travel so I have works from coast to coast but I tend to favor Ensenada and the Gaudalupe Valley with all of it's wonderful wineries.

Kelly Halloran

Kelly Halloran is a singer-songwriter, who started writing songs in 2006.

She believes in the power of music as a universal language. Her style is countryesque and can have a kick of jazz, sass, pop, rock, whatever is needed to serve the song.

She has performed as a solo artist and with her band Sequin in the Sky. She has performed at Carlsbad Flower Fields, in Oceanside at Crossroads Stagehouse, Sunshine Brooks Theatre, Star Theatre, and sang at the Oceanside Days of Art and in “That’s Amore” at the Oceanside Cultural Arts Center Valentine Fundraiser Show.

Several of her original songs have been recognized by the Song of the Year contest online. Her song, Lonely Night in Paris was a part of a compilation cd.

Kelly has 5 music videos available on YouTube, two of them were in the Oceanside International Film Festival (Boo!Koo! in 2013 and Eye of the Storm in 2014). Her music is available on iTunes (Kelly Halloran and Sequin in the Sky). Kelly has 4 music videos in progress and is currently writing her first musical, Angel Girl. Kelly has grown to love all aspects of filmmaking and stage production.

Kelly is also a Dermatology Nurse Practitioner at Oceana Dermatology in Carlsbad.

Check out more at Facebook SequinInTheSky and YouTube SequinInTheSky

Brandon Hubbard

In the spring of 2011, I began a small business in my home town of San Diego called Signs of San Diego, where I sell panoramic photography along with hand sketches and watercolors of well known landmarks at local farmers markets, and art walks. Since that time, I have produced more than three hundred original art pieces, using both photography and pen & ink drawings.

I sketch mainly with the use of pen & ink, while my watercolors manipulate my ink drawings by adding pockets of color, which differs from traditional watercolors. Most watercolors are drawn in with light pencil and the lines are covered over, but I glorify the lines boldly and add the color after completing the drawing. I have an extensive collection of sketches and am able to create custom pieces from any photo for both personal and professional use.

The thing that makes my panorama product unique is my innovative framing technique. Every photo is snapped by my finger and every frame is built by my hands. I create my panorama pieces by using a method I like to call deconstructive panorama photography, where I merge multiple separate photos into one larger image, then I break them back apart as separate photos, only to merge them back together at the end, having the individual photos make up the larger piece. These pieces range in size from small 4x10 desktop pieces to huge, ten foot wall sized posters, perfect for large blank walls in offices and homes.

Check out more on the artist website signsofsandiego.com.

Marilyn Huerta

Marilyn is a local artist and advocate who enjoys all aspects of art.  Her primary focus is in painting and mixed media however she enjoys sculpture, photography and graphic design as well as many other forms of art.  She is involved in various mural projects and enjoys giving back to her community.  She especially enjoys working with community members who either love creating art or just simply have an appreciation for the arts.

Marilyn is currently the Community Liaison and Student Arts Association Advisor at California State University San Marcos where she is also a member of the university’s Public Arts Advisor Group. She is currently the President of the San Marcos Arts Council and serves as a board member on the TERI Center Fine Arts Committee, serves as an Ambassador for the San Marcos Boys & Club, and is currently a Community Liaison for the Charity Wings Art Center. Marilyn was previously the CSUSM Arts & Lectures CoordinatorCSUSM Arts Gallery  Manager,  family/children coordinator on the Carlsbad ArtSplash Committee, was previously the Sunday Artwalk Coordinator for Old California Restaurant Row, a Commissioner for the City of Oceanside Arts Commission, and a painting instructor for the Centre Artes program.

I AM an ARTIST

I first discovered I wanted to be an artist when I was in kindergarten. My teacher told everyone in the class that it was “free time” and we could choose any areas of the classroom to play in that we wanted. There was the science discovery area, the miniature kitchen, the reading area, the block building area and so forth, but what caught my attention were two easels with white glossy paper, big fat brushes and various jars of colored paint. My eyeballs immediately zeroed in on these two easels.  But then, I hesitated.  Were the easels only for the “rich kids” to use?  Was I permitted to use them? Needless to say I wondered my way towards them and ended painting picture after picture. I was in heaven.

Then a few years later, when I was in the 4th grade, I had a crush on a little boy named Bobby. He used to love to draw characters from the Planet of the Apes movies that were very popular at that time (yes, that gives my age away), and since I too, loved to draw, we sat next to each other and became close friends. Bobby used to draw very slow and methodical so even though he was a wonderful sketch artist, he often did not finish his projects. I, on the other hand, loved to draw and paint so much that I worked really fast with stomach churning excitement.  The more I could create, the more I could create!

This part of me hasn’t changed. It’s taken me a long time to actually call myself an artist because I am constantly being told that I need to “find my voice”.  I need to figure out what it is I want to create, what kind of art I want to do, and what kind of artist I want to be.  I need to figure this out and stick with it but I am now in my 40′s and I am still struggling with the same advice I’ve received from numerous people throughout my life.

Why must I do just one thing? Why can’t I dabble in it all? I love to work with clays and plasters. The messier it is the better, the more I sculpt the more I want to. I love to draw in charcoals and pastels one day, and perhaps colored pencils the next.  I paint like there’s no tomorrow and have recently started working in mixed media art that consists of paint, wax, glue, clay, strings, wax, fabric, paper and all sorts of things, all on a single canvas.  This is what I seem to love to do the most.

I enjoy going on photo shoots and find photography and the technical aspects of my camera fascinating.  Through photography I learn about composition, color, and line but I also explore and learn about the world around me. I smell the scents of the earth, the outdoors, and just everyday life.  I taste possibilities and I’m inspired by what I see.

In my graphic design work I learn to communicate.  How do I reach my target audiences to help promote an event, a business or an important message?  I am always up for this challenge and again, I love to explore what I can do.

Ever since that day in Kindergarten I’ve always wanted to be an artist but I’ve also felt it was not in my nature to just paint pretty pictures.   I had to do something with my art. Everyone on this earth has a purpose and everyone has a role that was intended for them to play. For that reason, I thoroughly enjoy sharing my art but I also enjoy giving back to my community. I believe in arts education and the healing of art.

I often wonder, is the creative self something we are born with or is it something that we nurture?  I grew up with a father who constantly drew cartoon pictures of “Bugs Bunny” and he taught me to color outside the lines and to use a color palette that was outside the norm. My mother, the most creative soul I know instilled in me the heart of creativity.  As each day passes, I learn more and more about her, about the creative self and about myself; my mother, the innate creator not to mention, my creator.

Through all the forms of art I can be true, I can be honest, I am whole. 

Carl Heidenreich

The STAR Theatre has received a gift of 10 original watercolors that have not been seen in decades by renowned artist, Carl Heidenreich, from collector Emanuel L. Wolf and Patricia J. Recendez.

Carl Heidenreich (1901-1965) was at the center of Germany’s avant-garde. He was a student in the first school of Modern Art opened by Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1915. Hofmann moved to New York in the early 1932 and in 1941 helped Heidenreich escape the Nazis just before the outbreak of WWII. Most of Heidenreich's early works, left behind in Germany, were destroyed during the war, but the artist returned to painting after establishing himself in New York.

Heidenreich's surviving works "tell a tale of a man who lost everything — family, possessions, and all of his art in the escalating progress of war — struggling to replace and recuperate his loss." Heidenreich's efforts to absorb and come to terms with the traumas in his life are evidenced in abstract compositions in which effects of space, illumination, and other phenomena combine to set up an internal dynamic flow (what he called "pictorial motion"), in which recognizable images and forms emerge, recede, and at times disappear completely, spiraling through layers of colors and marks. Today Heidentreich's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.  The UC Berkeley Art Museum, which was founded by Hans Hoffman, has several of Heidenreich’sworks in its permanent collections.

Emanuel L. Wolf "Manny" is an avid collector of Heidenreich’s paintings.  Emanuel L. Wolf as head of Allied Artist Pictures was responsible for many major films including Cabaret ( 8 Oscars), Papillon, The Betsy, and The Man Who Would King.