West Essex Art Assoc. Meeting Features Contemporary Figurative Painter, Stephanie Deshpande

The West Essex Art Association is pleased to announce our monthly meeting featuring a demonstration by noted artist, Stephanie Deshpande. In this painting demo, she will explain the process of starting a still life beginning with the underpainting, building up the colors, and finalizing the image. Oil painting techniques will be discussed as well as the differences between alla prima and indirect painting methods. Deshpande will also talk about the importance of comparing values, measuring, finding edges, and looking for color relationships. The demo will outline the simple steps to create a successful painting. Participant questions will be encouraged.

 Join us on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 from 7:30-9:30PM at Crane's Mill Town Square,  Activity Room. The meeting and demonstration is free and open to all artists and interested parties.  Coffee & Networking at 7:30 - Program at 8 pm sharp. For further information, contact Constance Seugling at 973-239-5005.

Stephanie Deshpande is a contemporary figurative painter best known for her psychological portrayals of her daughter and for her realist still lifes. Her work combines her love for realism with personal allegories. Her paintings evoke mystery, and have been described as having a “something-going-on quality” to them.

Deshpande graduated from University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a BFA in Painting and continued her studies at the New York Academy of Art earning her MFA. She has won numerous awards including the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 1996. Deshpande currently lives New Jersey. She has exhibited her work in New York City at the National Arts Club, Belenky Gallery, and participates in “Conception” group shows. In October her work will be displayed in a Women Painting Women (R)evolution exhibit at the grand opening of the Gallery U Boutique in Westfield, NJ as well as at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 117th Annual Open Exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City.

She recently received recognition for her paintings by the Portrait Society of America and Artist’s Magazine. She is also a member of the Portrait Society of America and Studio Montclair.