2023 Open Studios Art Tour Artist Demonstrations
The artists below all hosted scheduled events during the 2023 tour. Artist demonstrations are a great way for tour-goers to get a deeper experience at some of the studios they might be planning to visit.
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Zoya Dixon Arts/SEEKUS
Event Description: Please join us as Sam Lopata and Zoya Dixon (together known as SEEKUS) demonstrate their graffiti and sand stacking artwork. Sam will be demonstrating his graffiti technique using content crowd-sourced from questions answered by ChatGPT.
Zoya Dixon will be adding her abstract sand stacks to the canvas after the graffiti demonstration.
The public is encouraged to submit appropriate and compelling questions to be answered by ChatGPT.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 21 and Oct. 22
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Studio Address: 480 Tessa Court, Templeton -
Gayle Rappaport-Weiland
Event Description: Gayle will be doing small sampler demos using Golden Artist Colors and Silverbrush LTD brushes; these demos will be set up so that anyone can just ask for an artsy tip.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14, Oct. 15, and Oct. 21
Time: 3pm - 3:15pm
Studio Address: 138 Clydell Court, Pismo Beach -
Spencer Poulter
Event Description: Live painting event! Spencer Poulter will create a large original landscape painting to auction off. Live auction will be held through Instagram, participants coming to studio will also be allowed to bid. All profits will go to the Maui Strong Fund to help people displaced from the recent fire in Hawaii.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 21
Time: 10am - 4pm
Studio Address: 361 Highland Drive, Los Osos -
Colleen Gnos Art
Event Description: “From Sketch to Large Scale:” The artist will demonstrate gridding out a painting or mural from a sketch or photo reference.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 15
Time: 11am - 12pm
Studio Address: 141 Suburban Road, Unit C4, San Luis Obispo -
Marcia Kortas
Event Description: Demonstration of the use of oil and cold wax in your paintings. Learn the basic tools, substrates and application techniques. If you have been wondering what oil and cold wax is and how to use it this is the demo for you!
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14 and Oct. 21
Time: 1pm to 2pm
Studio Address: 303 Blue Springs Lane, Nipomo -
Marcia Kortas
Event Description: Demonstration of the use of alcohol inks. Watch as I do an intuitive painting using alcohol inks on yupo paper and also see how a number of gift items can be made with the use of alcohol inks. Discussion of the different substrates, tools and finishing products will be included.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 15 and Oct. 22
Time: 1pm to 2pm
Studio Address: 303 Blue Springs Lane, Nipomo -
Kathleen Yorba
Event Description: Kathleen Yorba will be demonstrating Gelli printing, collage, and painting.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 21, and Oct. 22
Time: 2pm - 3pm
Studio Address: 130 Refugio Place, Arroyo Grande -
Patti Robbins
Event Description: Live still life painting with demonstration of the artist’s approach to setting up a still life
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 21 and Oct. 22
Time: 10am - 3pm
Studio Address: 2765 Indian Hills Way, Arroyo Grande -
WinterStromArt
Event Description: The artist will be explaining and demonstrating the science behind her painting technique.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 21, and Oct. 22
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Studio Address: 1352 Sixth Street, Los Osos -
Tracy Taylor
Event Description: The artist will be working in watercolors and there will be tables set up with paints for visitors to come and paint!
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14 and Oct. 15
Time: All day
Studio Address: 1135 15th Street, Los Osos -
Robert Burridge
Event Description: Painting Demonstration
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 21 and Oct. 22
Time: 11am - 12pm
Studio Address: 1451 Paseo Ladera Lane, Arroyo Grande -
Tricia Reichert
Event Description: Demonstration of a variety of ways to use Sumi ink, a bamboo pen, and watercolor to depict different subjects
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 21, and Oct. 22
Time: 2pm - 3pm
Studio Address: 1153 Vard Loomis Lane, Arroyo Grande -
Tricia Reichert
Event Description: Come and make your own relief print to take home as a memento of your visit
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14, Oct. 15, Oct. 21, and Oct. 22
Time: All day
Studio Address: 1153 Vard Loomis Lane, Arroyo Grande -
Jen Goodell
Event Description: Jen will be demonstrating screen printing on fabric and paper using stencils. Her recent work is often built using hand cut stencils with spray paint for backgrounds to which she adds painted figures in playful movements. Given the fume factor of spray paint, she is opting to demonstrate stencil layering with silkscreen, the technique she used before spray paint.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 14 and Oct. 21
Time: 3pm - 4pm
Studio Address: 1253 Chaparral Circle, San Luis Obispo -
Mike and Rosemary Bauer
Event Description: Mike and Rosemary Bauer are two artists who paint primarily outdoors in nature (aka painting “en plein air”). They will have the plein air gear and the materials they use while on location set up in their studio-gallery. Both will be available to show and tell how they approach painting outdoors and how each experience is different, even when returning to the same scene.
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 21 and Oct. 22
Time: 10am - 5pm
Studio Address: 831 Robin Circle, Arroyo Grande -
Back Bay Pottery
Event Description: Wheel throwing demonstration
Day(s) Offered: Oct. 15 and Oct. 22
Time: 1pm to 2pm
Studio Address: 1460 11th Street, Los Osos