California City Arts to host Rich Gallego, Plein Air Painter, for their August workshop

California City Arts Commission is excited to host Rich Gallego, an accomplished Plein Air Painter, for their August workshop on Saturday afternoon, August 19 from noon to 3 p.m. The class will be held at the California City Arts and Community Building. Rich will be teaching the basics of Plein Air Painting including what to bring while you're painting outside, and how to compose your painting.

Rich Gallego has been painting the landscape since 1996. His longtime love of nature's wild places have taken him far afield from Arizona's Canyon de Chelly to the beaches of Hawaii. From the rivers, gorges, and adobes of northern New Mexico to the glaciers of Alaska and so many places in between, all in search of the scenes he loves to paint. Referring to his obsession with painting as "my magnificent affliction", he is constantly searching for new ways to reveal the natural world to others through paint.

Rich teaches weekly plein air workshops in Southern California, annual plein air painting workshops for Cloudcroft Art Workshops in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, and each year for the past eight, he has taught weeklong workshops for the Taos Art School in New Mexico. He is a member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters' Association and was juried into their "Best of Plein Air" show in 2015 and 2016. He has been featured in several articles by Plein Air Magazine's website, "Outdoor Painter" and appeared as a featured artist in "American Art Collector" magazine. Rich has been represented by several galleries in Laguna Beach, CA, Monrovia, CA, and Cheyenne, WY. Currently, he is represented by Hillside Fine Art of Claremont, CA and CN Interiors of San Marino, CA

The California City Arts and Community Building is located at 10400 Heather Ave in California City. The Center is in Central Park. From East California City Boulevard turn North on Conklin and right on Heather. The Park is at the end of the street. The Arts and Community Center is straight ahead when entering the park.

For additional information or questions, please call Terri Lucy at (760) 514-2492.