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Northern California Donna DeLaBriandais, A.I.S. Donna DeLaBriandais, a third generation native of California finds inspiration for her paintings in Sonoma County. Donna's landscape paintings reflect the beauty of the area. Her paintings style is painterly and spontaneous, as she expresses her impression of the subject. Donna paintings are exhibited in galleries in California and Arizona and Chicago. For eighteen years she has been exhibiting through the Juried Art's Council Art Trails Open Studio program that is held each year in October in Sonoma County, California. View the link www.artrails.org for more information. Note: I am planning to take one year off from Artails open studio, 2008 and travel. BE SURE TO CLICK ON BOTH DONNA'S WATERCOLOR AND OIL PAINTING PAGES ON THE LEFT OF THIS PAGE TO SEE A VARIETY OF ARTWORK. CLASSES: Also check out recent workshops Donna teaches. Cleck on the Painting Workshop buttom the left. The Santa Rosa Junior College Extended Education, (see link page for details) is schedule for a watercolor landscape workshop in May, June and July with oil in August.. Each semester she will teach classes in drawing and painting. She is also putting together her own private painting workshops in watercolor or oil. The last "Sketching People in Public Places." class held in November through the college was fun and will be repeated again another semester. The class goes to jazz/blues clubs, coffee shops, markets, and the symphony to draw musicians and people in public places. |
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| Donna's Personal Messages You may contact the artist at artandjazz@jps.net My favorite subjects to paint are the landscapes of Bennett Valley in Sonoma County, where I live. I also enjoy painting at the river's edge at sunset. Autumn is a wonderful time to paint on location. The light is soft and the days are getting shorter, which makes the shadows long and interesting as they cascade over the landscape. My favorite time to paint is sunset. I paint quickly to capture the sunlight before it goes over the mountain. Autumn is coming to an end and soon the air will be cool and crisp. The leaves in the vineyard are still green, however soon they will turn yellow and then orange and crimson. The seasons go by quickly. In July I painted the lavender fields at a nearby winery. Some of my paintings hang in their tasting room. Winter is now here and the beauty of the vines without the leaves are beautiful. Winter is a favorite time for me to paint from my back deck as the fog dances over the landscape between the trees and morning sunrise. The sunrise sky becomes a yellow and orange hue with the hills transparent blue and purple. I wake up early just to see the sunrise. Spring is full of life and the wild flowers are abundant; poppies everywhere, especially at my studio. The mustard fields are brilliant yellow. Spring is a time of renewal and painting outdoors is invigorating. Buds of leaves are covering the vineyard vines like a blanket of velvet. Summer is coming and the hills are turning from green to burnt sienna. I love the combination of these two rich colors. It makes the hills alive. I am going painting tomorrow to paint the hills before they turn brown.
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Art Background Donna's art background includes the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and LaRomita School of Art in Italy. She received her BA degree from the University of San Francisco. Donna is a professional artist and shows her work in galleries, local wineries, open studios and juried exhibits. This year she had two paintings accepted in the A.I.S. juried national exhibit held through May, 2007, at the Hilligoss Gallery on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Donna is a signature member of the American Impressionist Society and an exhibiting associate member of O.P.A., Oil Painters of America . She enjoys teaching drawing and painting through art centers and Santa Rosa Community College. Donna is a contributor of articles and paintings in art magazines. One of her paintings was selected in the art collectors book by Alcove publisher, titled: The American Art Collector, West. SELECTED COLLECTORS: Kaiser Permanente, University of San Francisco, Cardiology Assoc. Art Collection Rohnert Park, American Shield, Charles Schulz private Collection, Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation, several So.Co. wineries, private collections in France, England, Italy, New Zealand and the United States. |
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Plein air painting is a french term for painting on location in the open air. The impressionist painted on location or en plein air......
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Beautiful July afternoon painting at the Matanzas Creek Winery. The lavender fields were in full bloom with the fragrance of perfume. Visit the winery tasting room to see her lavender paintings on display. Send an email |
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