San Dieguito Art Guild’s Aug. 6 demonstration will feature a well-known local artist, Ron Lemen.  The demonstration to be held in the Ecke Building at Quail Botanical Gardens on Aug. 6, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The demonstrations will focus on sketching in oil and using the medium as a sketching tool to make quick indications under short spans of time.    

   Ron’s presentation will include simplifying the subject down to its abstraction, using value to push the color and illusion of light and brushwork when quickly painting.

   Ron Lemen is a dedicated artist and instructor who has worked in several different arenas of art, from representational and fine art to illustration and entertainment art. In addition to his work as a freelance artist and commissioned painter, Ron has a strong and extensive background in art instruction. He and his wife, Vanessa, own Studio 2nd Street, and they both teach traditional and digital drawing and painting classes. 

   They have developed a solid place in the community of Encinitas, participating in a variety of local art events held throughout the year. Ron is also a member of the Encinitas City Council’s Arts Commission. For more information about Ron and the Studio 2nd Street art classes, visit: studio2ndstreet.com. To view Ron’s work visit: ronlemen.blogspot.com.

   Please join the San Dieguito Art Guild from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 .pm, on Aug. 6, for Ron Lemen’s demonstration at the Ecke Building at Quail Botanical Gardens, 230 Quail Gardens Drive in Encinitas.  



   The San Dieguito Art Guild offers this demonstration free to the public. The Guild operates two Off Track Galleries (Gallery One is located at 500 Second Street; Gallery Two is located in the Lumberyard behind St. Tropez Bistro) in downtown Encinitas.  


   For more information please call 760-942-3636 or go to OffTrackGallery.com.