Plein air artist to demonstrate for Art League

Award-winning, South Pasadena- based artist Laurie Hendricks is the guest of honor at the Art League’s meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. in Clubhouse 4, She has taught plein air workshops in Cambria and Europe, and at Leisure World, she will be demonstrating the techniques and procedures of plein air painting and inspiring club members to get out into nature and paint the beauty of the Earth.

Hendricks grew up in Northern California, where she was surrounded by the beauty of San Francisco Bay and the High Sierras, as well as by artists and professors from University of California, Berkeley. After earning a master’s of fine arts degree at the San Francisco Art Insititute, Hendricks has pursued her paint- ing as well as acting and filmmaking. She has recently studied with Chinese master painter Jove Wang and won the Blue Ribbon Award from the Laguna Plein Art Painters Association. She is a member of the California Art Club, Laguna Plein Air Club, American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America and Southern California Plein Air Painters Association.

Her paintings hang in many private collections, both nationally and internationally. Hendricks’ plein air work “Malibu Oaks” is part of the permanent collection of the Desert Art Museum in Palm Desert.

Those members who want to participate in the November Art Show—the theme for which, by popular choice, is fall—must submit their artwork for display by 6:30 p.m. the day of the meeting. Everyone is encouraged to wear masks.