Marianne Graff The PebbleCreek Art Club is delighted to award Rana Cukierski Artist of the Month for January 2019. Rana comes from Elmhurst, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. Wanting to pursue a career in art, she took several art classes during her senior year of high school. Rana then took art and music classes…
Sharon Adamy As have many in PebbleCreek, our December Artist of the Month began life in the Midwest. Kathy Craig and her husband, Charlie, moved to the Portland area in 1979 where they raised a family and pursued careers in the electrical utility industry. Because Charlie’s parents moved to Arizona in the 1970s, the Craig’s…
Marianne Graff The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to honor Carol Burford with our Artist of the Month award for November. Carol is a native of Southern California; she moved to Pleasanton, California in 1975 and then to PebbleCreek in 1997. From the time she was a child, Carol has always loved to draw. When…
Marianne Graff The PebbleCreek Art Club is proud to award Jim Snider October 2018 Artist of the Month. A valued member of the Art Club, he comes our way from Columbus, Ohio. He spent fifteen years in the United States Marine Corps as a cryptographer in the Near East embassies. When he returned to civilian…
Sharon Adamy If I were to introduce you to a former United Airlines flight attendant, a retired HP corporate manager, and the co-founder of Cookie Dough to Go, you might well assume you were meeting three distinctly different individuals so diverse are these occupations. Not so! You would be meeting Kathie Janda, the Art Club’s…
Marianne Graff The PebbleCreek Art Club i.ery proud to award Marielle Ramsey Artist of the Month for December. She is an accomplished watercolorist and .alued member of the Art Club. Marielle was born in Berkeley, California and called the Bay Area home for many years. She has five children and six grandchildren who live all…
Uff da! Marianne Graff Upon hearing that exclamation, one may either be baffled at its usage or fully aware that Ila Larson is nearby. As a way of introducing our November Artist of the Month, it seemed appropriate to use her favorite interjection, Uff da, huffda, oofda, or uf daa! Anyway this Norwegian expression might…
Connie Haskell The PebbleCreek Art Club is very happy to award Connie Haskell Artist of the Month for October. Connie and her husband Dave relocated often during his corporate career and lived in some very interesting places! They moved from their original home in southern California and lived for a time in the Bay area,…
Marianne Graff From prehistoric cave dwellers to present day Pastelists, art historians continue to explore the methods, materials and successes of the pastel medium. Emily Beeny, Associate Curator of Drawings for the Getty Museum, demonstrates the importance of pastel in the current installation of 18 works: The Birth of Pastel on display until December 17, 2017.…
Sharon Adamy Two of the presenting artists prefer painting people as well as animals. Although accomplished in all subjects, Shirley Smith prefers portraiture of people as well as animals. While doing a commission piece she may take up to 32 hours working on the resemblance. A shorter time is involved when painting wild animals as…