The Loma Linda Cultural Arts Association* welcomes the new year on Sunday, January 7, when our monthly lecture and demonstration meeting will feature Linda Doll, a Southern California painter and teacher of art. Ms. Doll’s beautiful work in transparent watercolor has appeared as cover art for national and regional magazines, painting instruction manuals, and in many juried exhibitions, where she has been the recipient of numerous awards. A visit to the artist’s website reveals the broad sweep of her interests. Ms. Doll is a certified instructor in the Zentangle Method of pen and ink art, (an “easy to learn method” of “developing beautiful images from structured patterns.”) The Linda A Doll Grid System for iPad and Sketchclub is a means she developed for using aspects of technology in art. Ms. Doll employs photography when working in digital collage. It is all beautiful. Doll’s enthusiasm for her favorite water color subjects: “people and the still life” is visible in her treatment of them. She portrays them with dignity but without glamour; in spare, sunlit “quietude” they converse, stroll, or enjoy the wide-spreading California beaches. Linda Doll confesses a fascination with the hint of “the person just outside the picture plane.” Her compositions are as full of light as of introspection. LLCAA* monthly meetings take place in the Loma Linda Senior Center, which is located at the southeast corner of the Loma Linda Civic Center complex, 25541 Barton Road, in the city of Loma Linda. The public is welcome; a $5.00 donation is requested from non-LLCAA members. There is no charge for Loma Linda University students.

Linda Doll Southern California Watercolorist