Local Art Walk

Cameron Canales

After growing up in Lemon Grove, CA, Cameron Canales moved to Fallbrook, CA in 2008 when he began to immerse himself in the arts and quickly began freelancing, mostly for commercial screen printing projects. During this time Cameron was attending Palomar College studying psychology, with hopes to eventually move into art therapy when he was offered a position at the Safari Park as a caricaturist. He also worked at Legoland, CA before opening his own caricature concession. Currently Cameron is running his own caricature stand below the Oceanside Pier on the strand as well as providing caricature entertainment for private parties and corporate events of all sorts. Although not currently in school, Cameron uses his downtime to study psychology and develop his body of artwork which can be seen at the Art Hatch gallery, formerly known as the Distinction Gallery in Escondido. He loves to work in many mediums and styles as he feels that only the proper medium will accurately communicate the message behind the piece.

Come see the variety in his work every second Saturday from 6-10 at Art Hatch in Escondido.

Kathleen Ossiander

I am a local Artist. I enlisted in the Army another lifetime ago and it was there that I learned to draw and paint. After 17yrs of boots and rucksacks I left to go back to school for a degree in Health Science. I put down my brushes and pens and began my career in the Dental Field. Now my life and family have brought us to Oceanside and it is here that I have rekindled my passion for Art. Today I am taking classes with Charlotte Collosia at the Art Beat in Vista.

The " What's in your head?" series is something I have been working on. I enjoy illustrating with watercolor and ink. The abstract ocean scenes are using a mono print style, using water colors.

Krista Timberlake

I hail from Western Massachusetts, where I grew up in a family and community of artists and craftspeople & developed my love of nature & the outdoors. After attending UVM for premed & Savannah College of Art & Design, I earned my BFA from UMASS, Amherst. Bicycling for 25+ years has created a love and addiction that have contributed many ideas and themes to my art. As an avid cyclist, yogini, hiker, weightlifter, fitness enthusiast & former premed student, I have a great appreciation for the body as a machine. As a general outdoorswoman & lover of nature, I have always been drawn to depict animals in addition to people, especially in a whimsical manner. Artistically, I have always found beauty in well-crafted machinery, as well as in the human figure & most living things found in nature. In creating mechanical & more naturalistic pieces, I am intrigued by line, texture and color, and am most drawn to using watercolor as it is unpredictable. The most interesting things happen in my work when “mistakes” occur- unplanned reactions that I will never be able to duplicate. I currently live in Vista, work as a graphic designer at The Upper Deck Company & freelance as a graphic & web designer and fine artist.

Check out more at the artist website kristatimberlake.com

Donn Angel Pérez López

As an artist and architect I work compositions that integrate natural landscapes, architectural perceived surroundings and elements that radiate livelihood and emotional vitality. Artistically compromised and architecturally charged, the art represents a resilient energy that exists in constant flux - The art is tectonic, thorny and visually alive. I find inspiration in the textures and languages of daily life, Christianity, nature, music and from human interaction.

Check out more at the artist website ONIRIC Art at sitiosdesign.com

Patricia Sablak Korzec

Patricia Sablak Korzec has been an active member of the Southern California arts community for the past 15 years serving as Chairperson of the Riverside Cultural Consortium, and Moreno Valley Arts Commission. She is a currently Executive Director of the March Field Air Museum was the former director of the Riverside County Philharmonic and KidZone. As a working Plein Air artist she opens her painting studio in the People’s Gallery in Riverside during the city’s monthly ArtsWalk.

Patricia is also an associate member of Women Painters West, a member of the Brandon Gallery in Fallbrook and the Fallbrook Art Association. Her paintings have won numerous awards at the Del Mar Fair and other competitions in southern California.

Patricia has always had an interest in creating illusions and interesting spaces. She began her artistic endeavors at an early age, creating images of exotic places she read about in books. Utilizing her experiences in her lifetime of travel she enjoys creating visual imagery with lavish fabrics, bold colors and interesting objects of art. Her painting style is often referred to as Expressionist in nature, full of bold brushstrokes and fearless use of color.

Noreen Ring

It is my intention to design works that reflect an “other-world” feeling with a sense of universality. Earth, mountains, rocks, flowers, the sky, the stars, moons – things that we know exist with certainty but aren’t sure of the details and how they might fit together somewhere else, on another earthly plane. When I design, it is important for me to consider how comfortable existence would be in these worlds that endlessly reveal themselves.

Affiliations

Brandon Gallery – Director
Fallbrook Art Association – Scholarship Chair
Dorland Mountain Art Colony – Board Member / Associate Artist
Oceanside Museum of Art – Art Assist Member
SAQA Member
Ramona Art Association
Corona Art Association

Theatre Arts West

THE COMMUNITY ART PROJECT

Unleash your creative during the November 7th Oceanside Art Walk at Theatre Arts West’s community art project – located at Seaside Flowers, 212-C (Artist Alley) where you’ll be able to paint a piece of material that will become part of a work of art that will be gifted to the City on behalf of Oceanside Art Walk. Children, teens, and adults welcome. This triptych is an example of community art created in Temecula.

ABOUT THEATRE ARTS WEST

  • Creating new plays that are inspired by the work of local visual artists and musicians with the intent of taking these new productions to New York
  • Using the work of area artists in theatrical productions to further the success of local artists
  • Creating opportunities for area artists to make a living through set design, costume design, lighting design and sound design
  • Providing playwrights and actors labs to develop new works by Southern California writers
  • Producing theatre of a professional caliber which will draw audiences from around the country and develop our area as a cultural tourist destination
  • Offering Educational and Outreach Programs for adults, teens, and children in both the performing and visual arts including programs for at-risk youth and those suffering from physical and mental difficulties

To learn more about Theatre Arts West or to become involved go to www.theatreartswest.org

Virginia Cole

Virginia loves work that is suggestive and ambiguous; work that encourages the imagination of the viewer and prefers to leave interpretation of her work open.

She usually begins a work without a preconceived concept and is led by instinct as she works. This willingness to be led is part of what makes her pieces so visually compelling. She is fascinated by the creative process; her art is ever-changing and evolving based upon inspiration she gains from a wide range of sources.

Virginia works with a variety of mixed water media materials on canvas, wood panels, and watercolor paper. She uses acrylic paint, collage (hand painted tissue papers, found papers, rice papers, printed text), ink, pastels, watercolor pencils, and often uses sandpaper to get unique, richly-textured effects.

In addition to being a member of the Brandon Gallery, she is also a Signature Member of the San Diego Watercolor Society, a member of the Escondido Arts Partnership, and The Fallbrook Art Center Artist’s Guild.

Robert Pendleton

Robert Pendleton is a photographer and digital artist from La Jolla California. “Luminosity Hacker” is the title of his montage of enhanced digital photographs being projected this evening onto the Oceanside Museum of Art.

His technique of limiting image manipulation to discrete ranges of luminosity extends the dynamic range of digital photography revealing hidden details, and when applied to simple architectural features creates augmented, and at times ambiguous perception of depth.

Carley Woods

Carley Woods is a senior at Classical Academy High School in Escondido, CA. Her focus is art and she will continue this field of study in college. Carley enjoys both oil and acrylic painting as well as drawing. She is also part of her High School’s water polo and swim team.

Carley approached the Education Department at Oceanside Museum of Art to help fulfill her senior project, a community undertaking in her field of study.

Be sure to visit Carley on the terrace at Oceanside Museum of Art and stay tuned for future projects! Past projects include: acrylic painting demonstration with fellow students; helping participants cut and design their own snow flakes using special wax paper; an art board for participants to creatively display their New Year’s resolutions; oil painting on mirror where participants took a selfie; creating a group mandala.

Alicia Mutlu

For as long as I can remember I've been drawing or making something everyday. I am a seventeen year old girl and I am a self taught artist. I plan on going to college to further pursuit a career in the animation field.

I have always tried to make new art like something that will elicit a response of awe.

I draw or paint in anything that's around.

I make what ever I'm thinking about or what ever my hand spits out.
I would like to pursue animation because I would be able to draw everyday and work will be pleasant. I don't want to end up hating my job and hating my life like every other bitter suburban scum.
I think it would be nice to be a self-sufficient artist and live my life doing what I love every day.

I can't think of anything better.

"Young local up and coming artist with a very beautiful and edgy style."
- Heather Pilapil

"Gross"
- A girl looking over my shoulder while I was drawing

"You're going places"
-My Mom

Alicia is part of the Snot Nose Art Collective.

Holly Freiberg

I've spent years painting and drawing, but have just recently begun to display my art in galleries and at various art walks. I hope to gain new artistic experiences and meet other enthusiastic artists by participating in more events like this one.

Holly is part of the Snot Nose Art Collective.

Gina Cannella

I love to paint demons with daggers, curvy cutthroat cuties, killer kaiju, fast food fiends, malevolent Martians, badass baby dolls, good lookin’ ghosts, wicked witches and pissed off pets. Anything that’s fun and can be alliterated. ♥ ♥ ♥

Check out more on Instagram @baby_baphomet

Gina is part of the Snot Nose Art Collective

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. 

Rick Ortiz

I work at Biggs Harley-Davidson in San Marcos CA. I painted this piece simply named Semper Fi. Everyday we serve our Military Men and Women here at Biggs and every weekend they come in from there day of motorcycle riding and we serve them food, My family are very Military proud and it makes me feel good to see and serve these guys and girls, Basically because they get to see and do things us "normal" citizens do not, possibly even wouldn't/couldn't do. 2'x4' Acrylic on Wood panel. So I will be painting more Military related pieces in the Future.

Ruth Jameson

A lasting love affair with the images of Henry Moore, and Rodin are my guiding truth. Both sculptors had their own unique genre, and both were true unto their inner drummer.

Finding Bronze was my doorway to the visions always there in my heart. The strength of bronze gave birth to forms and connected them to the silver strands that drift down through time which become blended into my own visions of time and human awareness. The Sea is the underlying web that holds this world of desires together, and the bronze makes it possible.

Check out more on the artist website ruthjameson.com

Matthew Perez

Matt "Obscure" Perez sculpts, customizes designer toys, and designs for his and his brothers' company, Angry Koala Gear, a pop culture website.  As a child, his father brought comics home for he an his older brother, to pass on the love he had for comics during his childhood.

As a teen, Matt used his immature artistic talents with grafitti in the South Bay Area of Los Angeles.  His passion for art for art actually began in Iraq, while serving on his second deployment in 2008.  Matt bought a sketchbook, in which he would draw grafitti and other dark and humorous images, whenever and wherever he would find the inspiration.  It served as his personal release from the stress and danger during his day-to-day in Iraq.

When Matt came back home, he bought a DIY, designer vinyl art toy and made his very first custom.  His experience creating this piece grew into a profound devotion, which became his reason for joining in the pop culture journey with his brothers.  His time with Angry Koala Gear eventually led to him creating his own designer toys and taking on independent projects.  Matt has since worked on many projects, such as exhibiting work at conventions, including San Diego Comic Con, judging at an art toy contest, and participating in many group exhibitions, taking place around the country and in Australia.

Pierce Williams

Pierce Williams (Bill Pierce) is a graphic artist based in Vista, California, USA. He has worked in a variety of media, including sculpture, stencil prints, silkscreen prints and clothing, rock posters, and web/graphic design. He has curated over 40 art exhibitions. His work has been shown on national television and throughout the United States, as well as; Japan, Spain, Iceland, Italy, Belgium, and the UK.

Check out more at the artist websites piercewilliams.net and radioactivefuture.com, or Facebook radioactivefuture

Christine VH Schaffer

My mission is to create a whimsical world filled with the wonder of nature in the modern day world, using mixed media. I look to build small worlds and creatures with found objects, paper, markers, and paint . Always seeking my Muse in a whimsical way, I have found inspiration in human invention and nature. Intrigued by the paradox of both belonging to nature and humanity's desire to manipulate nature, I have sought to create a balance between these two worlds, the one in which creativity and invention lies. All the while, in search of a Modern-Day Muse. Natural beauty and machine coexisting in the creation of something with both the whimsy of the natural world while containing it all in a box, it's own little world. Throughout my art career I have played with the idea of perceptions in nature and the role of humanity within nature. I would describe my art as whimsically creepy.