The Brownwood Art Association will host a free monthly art demonstration on Saturday, January 12th at 1:30 p.m. at the Brownwood Art Center located at 215 Fisk Ave in downtown Brownwood.

The BAA invites the community each month to their open demos to share the love of art as well as support for local artists.

This month’s featured artist is Linda Hall Eggleston. Linda is a multimedia artist who will be demonstrating the use of oil painting by sharing her passion to anyone who would like to learn new techniques or to improve your own artist skills.

Linda is known for her distinctive and colorful style of painting in oil, pastel and acrylic, equally versatile in still life and landscape. She especially enjoys painting objects and scenes of the Southwest and Texas. Her works range from Indian pottery, wildflowers, animals, and people.

Her extensive travel throughout the southwest, first as a Longhorn Salesperson with her family ” JH HALL’S Mounted Longhorns”. Her grandfather BG Humphries was the first to start the Longhorn business in 1928. Then as an artist has given her the opportunity to study and observe this region of America. She has lived and worked in the remote areas of  New Mexico and Texas.

Linda is self-taught in drawing, but credits her colorful style to Gaitha Browning with whom she studied. She later became Gaitha’s Studio Assistant. She has also studied with Richard Goetz of New York, George Burrows and Kay Franklin.

Linda started her teaching of private classes in 1976, she taught for over 20 years in Brownwood, Texas.   Her classes consisted of drawing, composition, value and mixing of colors.  She stresses how Light and Dark can change the subject of the painting.

An accomplished artist, she has won a multitude of awards and Best of Show at exhibits including at the Stars Of Texas.