As Vice President of the San Fernando Valley Art Club, one of my jobs is to book the wonderful artists who will be demonstrating at the monthly meetings. The February meeting was a full house for artist, Lynn Gertenbach, who painted a scene from the Malibu lagoon. There were nearly 100 people in the audience to see Lynn's demo on February 3rd.
      Lynn told the group how she uses warm colors over cool and cool over warm to get a vibrant and luminous glow to her paintings. Lynn's combination of colors give her paintings an inner glow. Her colors are so yummy, you want to dip a spoon into them and eat them up (please, don't try that at home).

      Lynn also advised everyone to make sure they mix a lot of every color so later it isn't necessary to try to match up the same color again. To keep her colors very clear, she always is cleaning her brushes or picking up another brush before moving on to apply a different color. She cleans her brushes with walnut oil, not turpentine, so her paints have a creamy texture.

      I was very inspired by Lynn's demo and hope everyone else had a great time. I wanted to run home and try to duplicate her vibrant colors. Everyone came up to have a better look at her painting at the break.


      The demonstration ended with Lynn donating the demo painting to be raffled off to one of the lucky attending members. WOW! That was a great gift and the San Fernando Valley Art Club is very grateful to Lynn for her generosity and for sharing her talent and knowledge with us.
THANK YOU LYNN GERTENBACH.