Local Art Walk

Glo Lamden-McCollough

Stitched Heart Art™
Muse Art Dolls

WHAT ARE MUSE ART DOLLS?
Muse Art Dolls are individually hand crafted and created not only to be amazingly gorgeous works of art, but also project and present positive and empowering messages to those that possess them.

These “muse messages” can instill positivity, creativity, independence, hope and/or inspiration and are found on the back of each piece. All you have to do is believe!

THE STITCHED HEART ART - MUSE DOLL CREDO
We are imperfect…………………………… Just like you
Our threads show ……………
Our hair is unruly ……………
Our form ravels ……………
Our colors vary …………
We have uniqueness…………………………Just like you
Our threads show ……………
Our hair is unruly ……………
Our form ravels ……………
Our colors vary …………
We are beautiful………………………………Just like you
Our threads show ……………
Our hair is unruly ……………
Our form ravels ……………
Our colors vary …………
We have purpose……………………………Just like you

Check out more on the artist website stitchedheartart.com and Facebook StitchedHeartArt

Jeremy Lawson

photo is a sport of observation. As a shooter, I aim to capture the best of both context and story in a frame. I understand that moments leading up to a great shot and those included in a frame are linked by importance. As an observer of everyday life, I gravitate toward utilizing subtle visual ques like body language to provide insight and depicts an overall raw, unapologetic story. I use the lens to inform the viewer by focusing on habits and behaviors. More than anything, the service of a photographer provides behind the lens is to tell a real, unapologetic story. Lastly, I look to present the ordinary world in an extraordinary light focusing on the details and truth.

More than anything, the stories that are told simply need to be packaged correctly to provide a voice and platform to those who are otherwise overlooked.

Check out more on Twitter @hoodlumjeremy, Instagram @hoodlumjeremy and Tumblr OPP.SD

Jason Luper

I try to allow the purest, most random thoughts to spill onto canvas, as if each painting is capture a fleeting moment of thought. Art, to me, is the expression of what cannot otherwise be spoken, a reflection of the human experience.

Recently I have been moving towards a series of "micro paintings", mostly 6"x6" but not limited to those precise dimensions. The idea being to collect them in small groups, the sum being more than the individual parts.

Check out more at the artist website, Facebook Jason-Luper, Instagram @Jasonluper, Twitter @Jasonluper

Susan LaMontagne

Susan LaMontagne was born in the heart of Los Angeles and currently resides in North County San Diego. She has seen and lived through a lot of what the world has to offer.

After graduating with a degree in Art and doing graduate work in Art History, Susan has done everything from curatorial work to sailing the Pacific and Caribbean to raising two children with her husband.

At this stage in her life, she wants to share her experiences and vision with you through art. She hopes you enjoy.

Greg Lucker

As a concert photographer, Greg has covered everything from the local garage band, to U2 at the Rose Bowl, and everything in between. Shooting concerts is not all the glamour you might think it is. It's long hours, shooting in cramped pits, with lighting that always keeps you guessing. It is very fast paced shooting, and with only two or three songs to get your work done, you need to be on your game.

Greg has covered numerous shows throughout southern California and Las Vegas for the Chicago based "Dead Hub", and is currently shooting concerts as an Independent Photographer for Temecula based, Golden Crown Productions. He has had gallery shows in Temecula, and Escondido, and in 2012 he received Grammy Museum credit.

John Lamb

John Lamb is an artist, animation film producer/director, and entrepreneur. From the first animated surf and skateboarding cartoons, to perhaps the first American animated, rotoscoped rock n' roll video, to an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement for invention of the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System (VAS), Lamb's work has consistently been in the public eye since the 1970s.

In the early 1970s, Lamb's animation was seen in two seminal surf movies. "The Forgotten Island of Santosha" by Larry and Roger Yates featured Lamb's first animated film "Secret Spot" (1974), while "Five Summer Stories" by McGilivray-Freeman Films (1975) featured Lamb's animated short "Rocket 88".

Dean LeCrone

Dean LeCrone is a cartoonist, whose talents have been utilized in comic books, calendars, t-shirts, posters, magazines, and pretty much any other format- be it paper or internet- that has provided a platform for his work.

Dean brings his cartooning skills to Oceanside's Art Walk, by offering up his "Superhero Caricatures". With pen to paper, Dean will transform Oceanside Art Walk attendees into their favorite super hero!

In his youth, Dean grew up consuming and devouring comic books (into his brain, not actually chewing and swallowing them) and was influenced by the many talented, sequential art storytellers. His influences ranged from Marvel Comics, Mad Magazine, and newspaper strips.

Dean has been an exhibitor at Comic-Con, and continues attending each year as a professional. He was also the President of the Southern California Cartoonists Society for a couple of years, and continues to be a member of that fun group.

His comic character, "Doc Smith" (everybody's favorite social outcast) is growing in popularity with the yearly release of his Doc Smith calendars. See Doc Smith at: docsmith.us. and Facebook The Real Doc Smith Page

Dean's most recent project was an animation job- providing the art and character designs for an all animated episode of the comedy web series "Betty and DD's School of Acting Arts". The episode can be seen at their website, bettyanddd.com

Dean also has a multi-media partnership with photographer and artist Allen Freeman. Together, as Slambang Media, they have teamed up on various projects and jobs ranging from comics, poster art, film, and photography.

Check out the artist websites slambangmedia.com and deanlecrone.com and Facebook dean.lecrone

LaFran

Laura Frances Bushman Crawford (LaFran) graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in 1992. During her college years she spent one semester in the South of France studying Art History, Painting and Drawing.

She did portraiture painting for a few years after college. She worked in a Detroit Art Studio that provided paintings for hotels and offices. Upon moving to Southern California, she saw the resemblance to the French Riviera and fell in love with it. She has been painting California coastlines every since.

As a single mother she raised three sons and her youngest is now age 18. Laura managed to continue her education and become a Special Education Teacher. She holds two teaching credentials in California and a massage therapist license. Although she is a wonderful watercolorist, her favorite medium is oil on canvas.

She teaches watercolor and oil painting classes. Please contact LaFran at seachild4@yahoo.com for class info.

It is possible to see some of her artwork in local businesses along Coast Highway 101 in North County San Diego. Several of her paintings are permanently on display at the Michael Seewald Gallery in the Del Mar Plaza.

Check out more on the artist's website paintingsbylafran.wordpress.com

Kay Lim aka K Limonade

Residing in North County, San Diego, artist Kay Lim also known as K Limonade, can be found creating a wide variety of imaginative pieces. From psychedelic backgrounds and mildly morbid characters, she brings together elements from street art and cartoons.