DEMO VIDEOS

DEMONSTRATION VIDEOS

Enjoy seeing full demonstrations on a large, high definition video screen at meetings.
This page includes descriptions as well as video highlights from previous demos.

Refer to our schedule for new events on the
Calendar page .

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Diane Grindol
November 2025

Diane Grindol earned a BA in Art from William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri. Part of her studies was a year abroad in France, where she attended several classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nantes.

Eventually, Diane began teaching Pacific Grove Adult School classes. This video is Diane's Introduction to watercolors as presented to SVAA.

Diane is inspired by the natural beauty of the Monterey Peninsula, and loves capturing it in drawing, painting and photographs. She especially loves birds and wildlife.

Diane's Introduction to Watercolors:
https://youtu.be/b2EP_5fpK7M

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Guna Hebbar
October 2025

"Art has been a lifelong passion and I have been painting, drawing, doing some types of art my entire life" says Guna Hebbar. Guna paints diverse subjects in various media in oil, water color, acrylic, charcoal and other media in both plein air and in her studio, portraying a variety of subjects such as landscapes, flowers, Indian folk-art paintings, sculptures, and yoga inspired art with her unique perspective. Utilizing classic and contemporary techniques, she recreates nature's beauty in her paintings by expressing bold colors with her unique style.

Guna's Bio:
Guna's Art biography:

Guna's Video:
https://youtu.be/jXsFhKzADzQ

Guna's Website:
Guna Hebbar - Portfolio of Works

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Bobbie Brainerd
September 2025

Bobbie' Biography

Video:
https://youtu.be/O9vNQzAKNUk

Linda Elling
August 2025

Linda is fascinated by the dichotomies in nature: Light vs Shadow, liquid vs solid and movement vs stillness. These differences are what draws her to a particular scene and what she strives to portray in order to infuse her paintings with visual interest and feeling. "I want the viewer to feel as immersed as I do when I am painting nature."

When she captures a moment and a feeling of a particular space and time: she has succeeded.

Click this text to see her website:

Click her painting to see her SVAA demo:
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Kati D'Amore
July 2025

Coastal landscape in oils

Click on her art to see her video.

Kati is an oil painter who works in the Monterey Bay Area and draws inspiration from the wild landscapes and quaint architecture of this beautiful region. Point Lobos, Pinnacles National Monument, the Monterey Harbor and Elkhorn Slough are favorite spots. She has a weakness for dilapidated barns and the blue of the Pacific against the rocks in Big Sur.
She provides some hints for plein air paintng and shares her persaonal process.

Visit her impressive website at
https://www.damoreart.com/

Click on her art to see her video.

Dorothy Stonely
June 2025

Colors

Dorothy's painting style is abstract or non-representational and her preferred medium is acrylic with an occasional piece done in a mixed media style.
Her primary subject is – color! "I love the interplay of colors and the effect those colors have on our emotions. My work usually begins by painting the 'bones' of the piece, the basic structure, in black. Then the piece takes on a life of its own. Colors are added and sometimes subtracted as the painting tells me what it wants. "

Dorothy's work may be found at the Venture Gallery, 260 Alvarado St., in the Portola Plaza Hotel, Monterey, California.
Click on Dorothy's painting to see video highlights of her presentation.

Gordon Mayfield
May - 2025

Watercolors

Gordon paints mostly landscapes and shore watercolors of Big Sur, mountainous backcountry, lakes and rivers of the West.

His wilderness experience and knowledge forms the underpinning of much of his work. He has made many backpacking trips as well as his years living on the cliffs of Big Sur. He studied extensively with Dale Laitinen, Laurie Myers, Dave Allan, and Dick Puckett. Dan Reeves was also a major influence and inspired many of Mayfield’s treks into the wilderness searching for rock art. Gordon’s paintings hang in many homes and businesses throughout California, Oregon and beyond.

Gordon’s work may be found at the Venture Gallery, 260 Alvarado St., in the Portola Plaza Hotel, Monterey, California.

Click on Gordon's Butterfly to see video highlights of his demonstration.

Natalia Aandewiel
April - 2025

Oils (without brushes)

Natalia is (temporarily?) visiting us from Ukraine

Click on Natalia's photograph to see video
highlights of her demonstration.

Edi Matsumoto
Mar. - 2025

Edi is a Carmel, CA. Artist/Designer and Gallery Owner.
Three of her videos are:

Edi describes her career, as well as showing more than 15 examples of her art and how she went through 4 phases of work prior to May 2025. The last portions is filled with advice to emerging artists.

Click this text to see video
highlights of her SVAA visit,

An example of her procress.

Click this text to see a video
of her creating art for the
2021 Carmel street art project.

Her website and more

Click this text to see Edi's website .

Bonni Carver
Feb. - 2025

Watercolors

Bonnie is an established art teacher.

Click Bonnie's photograph to see highlights her demonstration.

Lawrence Harris
Jan. - 2025

Abstract Expressionism

Lawrence started doing art when he won an art prize as a child and continued with his father’s encouragement getting a BA from SFSU.

Lawrence is a Salinas Valley Art Association member and serves on their board.

He started in the realist style copying the Renaissance Masters, but became enamored yet confused by modern abstract painting. But after studying modern art and Picasso for many years, an epiphany occurred. He’s never been the same since. Lawrence now journeys in the realms of stylization and abstraction. He attempts to fuse emotion with energy to create new fields of composition, shape, color and meaning.

Click on this picture
to see video highlights
of Lawrence's demonstration.

Ed Avila Pastels
Nov. - 2024

Pastel Tips and Techniques

This is the second of two demonstrations from Ed. (scroll down to see his previous demo from 2023).

Ed is a well known Salinas artist and was a professional photographer before retiring several years ago.
Pastels are his favorite medium and he gladly shares advice to anyone interested in this distinctive medium.

Click on the picture of Ed's finished water tower to see highlights of this year's demonstration.

Murray Wagnon
Oct. - 2024

Oil Landscapes and Still Lifes

.As a teenager, Murray explored the colony of Artists, Writers, and Musicians living in the houseboats along the waterfront of Sausalito. It was on one of those houseboats, shared by Alan Watts, and the Artist Jean Varda, that he first decided to be an artist. While watching Varda’s creative process, he was struck by the feeling that this was the most natural way for a man to live. It was during those years that he began to augment his formal education in the Arts by taking Creative Art workshops from local artists, and artisans as he continued his Art studies in High School and College.

Click on Murray's painting to see highlights of his SVAA demonstration

Sherree Anderson
Sept. - 2024

Shoreline demonstration

Sherree is an oil painter who has received several awards over the years for her works in various exhibits. She paints in a realistic style often utilizing local scenes of oceans and landscapes. Her paintings often make the viewer feel as though they can step into the painting. She paints on location as well as in her studio.

She has collectors from various places in this country, and in others. She is the Past Director and full-time artist member of Venture Gallery, which is located in Monterey. She is the past President of the Central Coast Art Association. The Arts Council of Monterey awarded her the Outstanding Professional Artist for 2020.

Click this art to see her demonstration. (34m.)

Noah Gould
Jan. - 2024

Portrait demonstration

Noah has produced a large body of varied works, ranging from music, sculpture, conceptual art, drawings and paintings.

As a child he would often watch the people that surrounded him, including his parents, create things instead of simply buying things. They were builders of houses, they fixed their own vehicles, they were artists, musicians, they not only created things, but situations, culture. As Noah grew up, he took this sense of the importance of creativity with him to Los Angeles where he received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design.

He also attended the MFA program at Parson, The New School for Design, during which time and afterward he maintained studios and close ties to those cities and the networks of cultural producers he formed relationships with on each coast.

Click this art to see his portrait demonstration. (26m.)

Shelley Cost
Nov. - 2023
Oil paintings by acclaimed local artist Shelley Cost

Shelley is a recognized painter of representational landscape scenes of the Monterey Peninsula. She paints the beauty of the Carmel, California area such as Big Sur, Mission Ranch, The Carmel Mission and Carmel Valley, to name a few.

She was commissioned to paint Arnold Palmer on the 18th hole and Jack Nicklaus on the 17th hole of Pebble Beach. Those originals hang in the Lodge at Pebble Beach.

This demonstration highlights her process of doing as many as four preliminary studies prior to preparing a final painting.

Click Shelley"s final "Morning Walk" to see highlights of her completing a study of this site. (39m.)

Morning Walk

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Ed Avila
Sept. - Oct. 2023

Ed is a well known Salinas artist and was a professional photographer before retiring several years ago.

Pastels are his favorite medium and he shared lots of advice to anyone interested in this distinctive medium. He also discussions art considerations for those using othe media.

Ed will send us a photo of his finished art. In the meantime, click on this painting of extraodinary lighting in a backyard to see his demo video, as is. (28 min)

Joan Wells
July 2023

Joan presented the first of what will be two demonstrations showing how she creates sumptuous floral paintings.

She starts with attractive leaves and leaf patterns. Those patterns form the framework of her compositions.

Click on Joan's image A. to see video from her first visit. (25 min.)

Her second session will focus on flowers.
(Date to be determined)

Sandra Gray
April, 2023

Sandra is our main contact for art exhibits at the Avery Gallery in the city office building of Seaside, CA.

She visited with our members to discuss details the of our upcoming exhibit at Avery Gallery this summer.

She shared her art and photography within this video. Her discussion included her career hightlights following her receiving a Masters Degree in art.

Click on the Fishing image to see video highlights from her visit along with more images of her photography and art. (16 min)

Carol Gray
February , 2023

Carol Is a well known Central Coast artist who has demonstrated for us several times. She started this presentation with handouts of many grays she finds useful. For reference, she used a photo print for composition and the original cell phone image for color reference.

Click the image of her painting to see highlights from her video. (40 min)

Members sharing art
November 12, 2022

Occasionally, members are offered the opportunity to share their art with other members.
Positive suggestions are frequently offered to help each other acheive better results.

Five members shared art at the November 2022 meeting.

Click this blue "Shared Art" box to view them on a YouTube video. (24 min)

Suzy Adra
October 8, 2022

Leading with intuition, her paintings capture energy. She is inspired by the organic and esoteric. Sometimes incorporating symbolism, nature and the whimsical. A fascinating portrayal of what the imagination is capable of.

The first 13 minutes of her demonstration has audio, but not live video. In it's place are photos of her art and her visit with us.

Photo credits: Helma and Steve

Click on this final version of Suzy's demonstration art to enjoy seeing her YouTube video and experience an ancient media. (30 min)

Bill Creelman
September 10, 2022

Bill always enjoyed art and retirement gave him the opportunity to pursue that path.

Bill started with watercolors, then advanced to acrylics, but always wanted to dabble with sculpture. He developed a simple/inexpensive technique using supplies from hardware stores.

Click on the goat to view YouTube video highlights from his demo. You may have to raise the volume on your viewing device to better hear it. (17 min)

Scott Hamill
August 13, 2022

Scott is an internationally known artist.
He created this beautiful seascape within two hours.

Scott seeks to capture the mood or essence of a place and allow the viewer to experience the beauty of our natural world. He uses a limited palette of colors in oils, which helps harmonize the painting as well as adding the challenge of mixing all other colors from these few.

Click on this art to view YouTube video highlights from his demo. (28 min)