2026 Artist Demo Schedule
Jan 12th: No Meeting
Feb 9th: John Dillon, fine artist and animator
Mar 9th: Andrew Cortez, figurative and plein air painter
Apr. 13th: Judy Schoeder, watercolorist
May 11th: Steve Sandborg, plein air painter
Jun 8th: Mike Major, palette knife oil painting demo
Jul 13th: No Meeting
Aug 10th: No Meeting
Sep 7th: Jeff Horn
Oct 12th: Kevin Davidson
Nov 9th: Artist TBD
Dec 14th: Artist TBD
October 12th, 7:30pm – Kevin Davidson
Gouache Painting
Our next meeting of Orange Art Association for October 12 at 7:30pm will feature our own award winning fine artist and 50 year illustrator Kevin Davidson, who will be demonstrating how to make a successful gouache painting. He will outline the differences between gouache and watercolor, and similarities to other opaque media such as oil and pastel.
Kevin is a graduate of Art Center College of Design, a member of Socalpapa, and contributor to the Crystal Cove Store gallery, and a 20 year member of Mission Fine Art Gallery in San Juan Capistrano.
Check out his work on Instagram @kevin_davidsonyupoguy
September 14th, 7:30pm – Jeff Horn
Plein Air Oil Painting
This month’s art demonstration featured former professor emeritus Jeff Horn who demonstrated his approach to Plein air oil painting.
Jeff is a member of Plein Air Painters of America, California Art Club, LPAPA, and featured in Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts. It was from his plein air class over 20 years ago that the seeds of Socalpapa were planted.
See Jeff’s work at www.hornart.com
August 10th – No Meeting
July 13th – No Meeting
June 8th, 7:30pm – Mike Major
Pallete Knife Oil Painting
Our featured demonstrator in June will be Award winning and multi-talented in many media, contemporary artist Mike Major.
He will be demonstrating his approach to pallet knife oil landscape painting.
Currently he is on track to finish one palette knife oil painting a day for 100 days.
Check out his website at www.mikemajorart.com.
May 11th, 7:30pm – Steve Sandborg
Painting Boats in Oil
This month’s guest demo artist will be Southern California Plein Air Painters president, Steve Sandborg.
Steve will be demonstrating his approach to painting boats in oil.
See Steve’s work here: SteveSandborgArt.com
April 13th, 7:30pm – Judy Schroeder
Color Wisdom
April featured talented watercolor artist and former gallery owner, Judy Schroeder. She demonstrated color wisdom from her friend Millard Sheets, specifically use of and mixing of greens.
See her website at: Schroederstudio.com for samples of her work.
Thank you, Judy Schroeder…. wonderful watercolor demo for our April meeting.
March 9th, 7:30pm – Andrew Cortez
Plein Air Painting
This month’s guest demo artist is Andrew Cortez, a figurative plein air painter.
He’ll be using flat color gouache paint and show how ro achieve maximum impact on small piece.
See Andrew’s work here: andrewcortezart.com
February 9th, 7:30pm – John Dillon
Landscape in Acrylic
This month we will be featuring multi-talented fine artist and animator John Dillon. He will be presenting his approach to landscape using acrylic, by layering steps with a watercolor approach, followed by a thick 3/4 to 1” brush for quick block in, no cleaning brush between colors, then go to detail and layering to finish. For his day job, John is a professional animator, working on the Simpsons series.
For samples of his fine art, check out his website: http://jddelux.faso.com or his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jddelux