The Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit continues for a second week as many talented artists from across the state offer demonstrations along with the art exhibit. Demonstrations scheduled for Friday, February 20th will include Colby Compton, Linda Hall Eggleston, and Jeremy Serna.
Demonstrations will be presented from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. daily on weekdays at the Depot Civic and Cultural Center in Brownwood. Artists will show visitors how to use a variety of different media as well as share interesting techniques.
The Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit will continue with daily hours through February 20th at the Depot. For more info, visit Linda Eggleston 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.
Eggleston has enjoyed 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. This has given her, as an artist, the opportunity to study and observe this region of America. She has lived and worked in the remote areas of New Mexico and Texas. She graduated from Brownwood High School.
Eggleston is self-taught in drawing, but credits her colorful style to Artist Gaitha Browning of Brownwood, Texas 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.
She started her teaching of private classes in 1976, teaching 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 including Best of Show at art shows. Linda has been in The Stars of Texas Art Show for many years. She will be giving a demonstration in pastel painting Friday.
Jeremy Serna is a self-taught airbrush artist who began airbrushing 25 years ago and has airbrushed professionally as an airbrush T-shirt artist and a portrait artist in South Texas. He has airbrushed everything from leather jackets to motorcycles. Serna teaches airbrush and drawing classes every Tuesday night at the Art Center on 215 Fisk in Brownwood.
“Airbrushing is a passion for me. I enjoy seeing others learn and the joy in their faces from they get because of their accomplishments,” said Serna.
Friday, he will be demonstrating a 4 foot by 8 foot aquatic painting. “I enjoy challenging myself in every airbrush painting I do; I try to make it more difficult each time.”