FEATURED ARTISTS:
ELLIE HAVEL - WAGONER
Being accomplished in watercolor, acrylic and oil, she has paintings in numerous private collections in the United States and abroad.
Ellie is a member of the Carlsbad Oceanside Art League, Off Track Gallery, San Diego Watercolor Society and Oil Painters of America.
RITA SHULAK
Rita is a juried artist who has won first place in several major art competitions in 2007 and 2008. Her work is featured in the December, 2007 issue of Illustration Magazine.
Rita paints in watercolor, acrylic and oil using a variety of techiniques including palette knife, finger painting, glazes, and dry brush. She studied at several Universities and the Atheneumn School of Art as well as privately with individual artists.
"I am a continual student focusing on new design and the techniques of the masters and learning how to free the spirit into a right brain experience. Color is my passion in painting. I love my paintings to have texture, rythmn, luxurious composition, and varieties of paint application - from impasto to passages of glazes. I also draw with paint and mix different media into paint to create an atmosphere. My paintings are heartfelt and exclude excessive subject matter. In addition they are bright, cheerful and sensitive."
ELISABETH J. NICHOLSON - FROGER
Long time SDAG member Elisabeth J. Nicholson-Froger, 'Betty', was born in the Netherlands, spent many years in the United Kingdom. Eventually, with her family, she moved to the USA. No matter where she lives, one of her many interests is and remains the Fine Arts. She works in most visual media, watercolor being her favorite and photography a close second.
She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, in 1972. Later on, when living in San Diego she followed a diversity of art classes as they were offered by the San Diego Watercolor Society.She fondly remembers classes by the American watercolorist Charles Reid, (given in South Western Canada) and by the teaching of the world famous Australian watercolorist: Robert Wade.
Later, with her husband she traveled the world.Always ready to sketch and photograph etc. she worked in the most unusual places in Turkey, India, Central America, Nepal and Australia to mention but a few. She has always been considered, a "A colorist."
Elisabeth, who also loves to write, has published two books. Her novel, called "Never a Last Time", is available atAmazon.com.The story deals with the tortuously horrible life under inhumane Nazi's occupation; and its consequences for the people in her home country - then called Holland - during World War II.
RITA HOHWEILER - CECIL
