Tierra del Sol Studios

Karen Goldstein from Sunland Studios made this gorgeous ceramic last year in the studio! A stunning vase that’s beautifully crafted and topped off with a small flower on top. Karen is a natural ceramicist and took to it fairly quickly. Can’t wait to see what else she makes! #KarenGoldstein @TierradelSolStudios @TierraDelSolGallery @TierradelSolFDN * * * Image description: The image is a photograph of a vase on a table. The vase is tan with black handles, and a blue and orange flower glazed on the top center.

Hugo Rocha is safely in the studio working on a colossal drawing! Hugo had a solo show at Tierra del Sol Gallery in 2019 and everyone was in awe with his work inspired by Mexican telenovelas from the 90’s and famous musicians! We’re excited to see what he’s cooking up #HugoRocha @tierradelsolgallery @tierradelsolstudios @tierradelsolfdn Image description: The image is a photograph of a Latino man wearing a yellow shirt sitting at a table. The table has a large piece of paper with a drawing on it and pens and markers. Behind the man is a shelf with clear containers.

TOMORROW! Sign up: Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art HOME EDITION WORKSHOP... Make a Zine with Tierra del Sol Studios Jackie Marsh & Katie Mendoza ONLINE via Zoom February 10, 1230-130pm (PST) REGISTER for this ONLINE event www.tinyurl.com/HomeEdition-MarshMendoza Supplies: Please have at least 1 8.5 x 11-inch piece of paper, scissors, a glue stick, old magazines, and pens, pencils, or markers with you at this workshop. Jackie Marsh has worked as a studio artist at the progressive art studios of Tierra del Sol since 2009. Marsh produces whimsical depictions of animals and flowers in painting, drawing and ceramics. In both her two- and three-dimensional work, gestural mark-making is combined with a vibrant and loosely applied color palette to define her delightfully exuberant style. In addition to being a studio artist, Marsh also teaches art classes at Upland Art Studios, the Joslyn Senior Center and other venues. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California; California Baptist University, Riverside, California; Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California; and Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, California. When she’s not developing her art career, you can find Marsh at work providing compassionate care to the animals of local animal shelters. Katie Mendoza has a deep interest in the world around her and she thoughtfully shares with others her insights on a wide variety of subjects. She is an explorer and inspires those around her with a positive inquisitiveness. Mendoza seeks daily to expand her skills and is a naturally talented artist and teacher. Every day she has something brilliant to share. Mendoza creates and designs characters and stories for movies. She recently designed and made a set of tarot cards and does readings. Mendoza’s paintings, drawings and sculpture generally have a surprise element to draw the viewer in. @wignallmuseum @tierradelsolstudios @tierradelsolfdn Image description: The image is a photograph of a latina woman and a white woman both wearing orange t shirts and standing in front of a board with the words Zine Workshop written on the back.

Tierra artist Anthony Perez made this homage to his hero Spider Man! In this drawing we see Spider Man wearing his iconic suit AND sporting the Captain America shield! Have a super day today everyone! #AnthonyPerez @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery Image description: A color pencil drawing of Spider Man, wearing a blue and red suit with black webs while holding up a small shield with the Captain America logo. The background is blue with white clouds.

#TBT to this studio shot of an Anthony Perez piece from Sunland Studios. This animated ceramic head of a dog gives us a ginormous chuckle! All of us look forward to being in the studio again when it’s safe! Meanwhile, artists continue working with their mentors and creating works at their home studios. #AnthonyPerez @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image Description: The image is of a ceramic dog head characature with sharp teeth, a long snout, a black nose, and floppy ears. The ceramic is sitting on a newspaper and table in a ceramic studio.

From Tierra del Sol Studios: Wishing everyone a Wonderfully Creative Holiday time!! See you in the New Year. @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFdn @TierraDelSolGallery . . . . . . . .image description: nine photos of people smiling, some are waving. A few of the people are wearing holiday hats.

John Lund from Upland Art Studios has been working on new drawings from home and he recently completed this piece titled Lion King! Taking inspiration from the Disney classic, John abstracts the image of Simba to create a unique portrait. #JohnLund @Disney #LionKing @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: A color pencil drawing, mostly yellow, of a lion face within a yellow mass. There is brown color pencil and graphite marks to define the face.

Be sure to schedule your visit to see the new Jackie Marsh show opening up here at Tierra del Sol Gallery this Friday, January 9th! We are thrilled to show Jackie’s colorful drawings and whimsical ceramics together! Appointments are available here: https://tierradelsolgallery.org/appointments/. No more than groups of two. Masks on! Or if you prefer, walkthrough video coming soon! #JackieMarsh @tierradelsolgallery @tierradelsolstudios @tierradelsolfdn Image description: Color pencil drawing by Jackie Marsh, on paper. The image is of multicolored flowers against a yellow background with five birds flying at the top.

JOIN US, January 6, this Wednesday, 10am pst, sign up for a live zoom talk with our own Paige Wery (Tierra del Sol Gallery in Los Angeles), Sarah Galender Meyer (Creative Growth in Oakland) and hosted by Jennifer Gilbert (Jennifer Lauren Gallery in London). They will be talking about their studio and gallery programs as well as the current group online show, Evolving Echoing Entities. Link for sign up https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jennifer-lauren-in-conversatio @tierradelso...lgallery @tierradelsolstudios @tierradelsolfdn @creativegrowth @j_lgallery #johnmaull @zoom Image description: Pic 3 is a Photo of Sarah Galender Meyer, Paige Wery and Jennifer Gilbert at the Outsider Art Fair NY pre-covid in Jan 2020. The ladies are arm in arm and all wearing black, pink and white. Pic 1 is a photo sliced together of Creative Growth and Tierra del Sol Gallery. Pic 2 is a detail image of a colored pencil drawing by John Maull of flowers or trees layered using mostly blues and purples. See more

Posted @withregram @tierradelsolfdn Our e-Learning calendar is OPEN! Associates & families, make sure to take a look at the upcoming sessions and let your Tierra Representative know if you need any assistance. We are here to help. #IAMTierra #eLearning #VirtualLearning #WeCanDoAnything #IDD . @tierradelsolstudios @tierradelsolgallery

Tierra artist Alex Trim made this piece in continuation with his series of hole punchers. He used to work at hole punch manufacturing company before joining Tierra and now uses the objects as inspiration for his work. When Alex isn’t drawing for this series, he likes drawing his friend Curious George! #AlexTrim @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery Image Description: A color pen drawing on paper of a hole punch machine. The machine is colored with green, red, blue, and purple. The bottom left corner of the painting has text that reads Evo Solution 787 Fair North Oaks Ave and the lower right corner of the drawing has text that reads Telling 3:10 Hole Punch

Jeffrey Rinsky’s rendition of Tweety is spot on! The dreamy background of melting colors compliments is a complement to the whimsical garden painted below. Jeffrey, who’s a huge fan of many cartoons, did an awesome job with this iconic charchter character! #JeffreyRinsky @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery Image description: The image is of a painting using water color and marker of a large yellow bird flying over above a garden and next to a yellow cage. The background is red, blue, and green. Small green bushes with pink and yellow flowers run along the lower section of the painting.

Tonmoy Khan of Upland Art Studios has shared with us another piece he’s completed titled Spinning Magical Flower. The beautiful geometric patterns he produces in this piece makes you feel like you’re looking though a colorful and floral kaleidoscope! We hope you enjoy this piece as much as we do. #TonmoyKhan @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery Image Description: The image is of a water color painting of a circle with a flower in the middle painted black, red, green, blue, and orange. The outer layers of the circle is filled with orange, yellow, blue, and green geometric patterns.

Amanda Faucet of Sunland Studios made this wonderful drawing! She said, I made my own design of one of the Sailor Moon characters named Michiru Kaioh. She is known to be the Outer Sailor Scout named Sailor Neptune. I wanted to reimagine Michiru from the original 90’s version of Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystals. Crossing mediums from color pencil to digital, we see the creativity and uniqueness Amanda was able to create with this iconic Sailor Moon character. Amazing work Amanda! #AmanadaFaucet @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolStudios Image description: Image one is a color pencil drawing of a woman with a green gown and green heels. She has blue hair and is standing beside a nautical symbol.

Good morning! This piece by Liane Kaino of Upland Art Studios makes us so happy. A grey whale leaping from a deep blue ocean into a whimsical green sky. #LianeKaino @TierradelSolStudios @TierradelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery Image description: The image is a mixed media drawing of a sky of yellows, greens and blues highlights a gray whale with a red fin as it leaps from a deep blue sea, being left sprawled out across the center of the picture plane, almost coming into contact with the two blue clouds at the top of the piece.

Helen Rae is working from home with Tierra’s DriveWay Arts outreach where Tierra brings the studios to the Artists! Helen enjoys seeing and working with her arts mentor Jason and is seen in the images above steadily at work on a new drawing #HelenRae @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: Image one is a photograph of a woman wearing a yellow shirt with Spiderman faces and burritos waving at the camera. Image two is a photograph of the same woman at a table working on a color pencil drawing of a man.

Vicente Hernandez of Upland Studios made this beautiful painting! The man in this piece is sporting a Dodger hat perhaps to cheer on the Boys in Blue during the current World Series. #VicenteHernandez @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery #dodgers Image description: The image is a painted portrait of a man in glasses wearing a grey shirt and a blue Los Angeles Dodger hat on his head. The background is yellow.

Artist Tonmoy Kahn made this painting titled The Corona Virus Drowns Forever. A scary and chilling depiction of Covid-19, but also a highly creative way to deal with this current pandemic. #TonmoyKahn @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery Image description: The image is a painting of a green circle with eyes, a nose, and a mouth smiling and placed just above center. It appears to be floating in yellow water. The top of the painting are shapes in blue, black, and red.

Kathryn Barger, 5th District Supervisor of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors ends her term as Chair of the Board next week. One of her last tasks was awarding the winner of the Chair's challenge with an original artwork by Tierra del Sol artist, Sarit Halo. The piece is titled "Angels Talking" and it's a great prize to have won! Thank you Supervisor Kathryn Barger for your amazing work and continuous support of Tierra del Sol, and thank you to Sarit Halo of Sunland Studios... for creating such a wonderful artwork! #SaritHalo @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolGallery Image description: The image is a photograph of four people, all wearing face masks, posing for a photo in front of trees. From left to right is a man wearing a grey suit, a woman in a blue dress holding one side of a black-framed artwork with angels on it, a man in a dark grey suit holding the other side of the frame, and, at far right, is a woman wearing a black suit with a purple top.

Anthony Perez of Sunland Studios made this piece titled Big Time Rush, Friends Jeffrey Rinsky. It’s a portrait of Anthony and his friend and fellow Tierra artist Jeffrey Rinsky rocking out at a Big Time Rush concert! #AnthonyPerez @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery #spooktober Image description: The image is a drawing of two men standing in front of a black and white background. The background has text that repeats and reads 102.7 Kiss FM

What’s the best way to store yummy cookies this holiday season? Storing them in a Marlena Arthur Cookie Jar! @TierraDelSolGallery is having a holiday sale with works by artists from both Sunland and Upland. This piece by Marlena Arthur is the perfect gift for someone special who has a sweet tooth. Head to their website https://tierra-del-sol-gallery.myshopify.com//untitled-cer to see this piece and many more! #MarlenaArthur @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: The image is a photograph of a ceramic cookie pot that glazed to look like a small tree with a green top. The word Cookie is across the center in green and yellow.

Jeffrey Rinsky of Sunland Studios made this piece titled R.L. Stines the Haunting Hour! It’s a perfect painting to help us settle into the spooktober state of mind with a great reference to the master of Goosbumps, R.L. Stine! #JeffreyRinsky @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery #spooktober Image description: The image is a painting of a monster wearing a red top hat against a red background.

Douglas Allen is the subject in our fifth edition of Artist Corner. Doug works in a variety of mediums consistently using a psychedelic pallet and has a deep love for smokeys (big rig trucks). We caught up with Doug to see what he’s been working on at home. #DouglasAllen @TierradelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery #artistcorner https://vimeo.com/468734095

The artwork of Joe Zaldivar from Upland Art Studios often features distinguishing buildings, maps and landmarks both locally and from around the world. This artwork depicts the San Antonio Hospital in Upland, California and is made with Prisma color markers and ink pens on paper. #JoeZaldivar @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: This horizontal landscape view is a marker drawing of a large yellow building with text on it that reads San Antonio Hospital. The building is set back from an asphalt grey street that runs along the bottom of the composition. The front sidewalk, landscaping plants, street signals and flag pole are also included in the image.

Take a look at this drawing by James Scott of Upland! Jame’s work is mostly inspired by Disney films and the characters in them. In this piece James depicts Moana using color pencils on paper #JamesScott @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: The image is a color pencil and marker drawing of three characters. Two humans and one chicken which are all from the Disney film Moana. They are standing on sand in front of the ocean with a yellow and orange sun on the top right.

Wow, take a look at this painting by Ruben Del Cid from Upland Art Studios! In this piece, Ruben depicts what he imagines the characters from the radio show Jungle Jam look like from a scene described during the show. It’s a low-light night scene and the animals gather around Louis the Lion to ask him questions and enjoy each other’s company. Looks like a great night! #RubenDelCid @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: The image is a painting of animals sitting together in a night scene. Their eyes are bright white in contrast to the low-light and they are all smiling. Animals include bears, skunks, cubs, sloths, leopards, a giraffe, an elephant, and an ant eater.

Zack Stewart has made many digital drawings before and during the quarantine. One of his most recent is a picture of Batman. While the work is still in progress, the main figure is complete and exemplifies Zack’s creative talents in using Adobe programs to create artwork. #ZackStewart @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: The image is digital drawing of a stylized Batman figure wearing an all black costume on a white background.

Chelsea Lenninger from Upland Art Studios made this new piece titled, Creation of Star's Ion. The colors are so rich and beautiful we could get lost in this painting all day. #ChelseaLenninger @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery Image description: The image is a painting of a rabbit in red and yellow with green and red carrots floating around it. The background is purple, green, yellow, and grey.

Chloe Isiah from Sunland Studios has been working on some color studies paintings after participating in the hook punch zoom class. Chloe and her mentor Elly have been discussing abstract paintings working collaboratively on one. Take a look at these works! #ChloeIsiah @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: Image one is an abstract painting with black, yellow, white, and grey. Image two is an abstract painting with orange, yellow, white, and pink. Image three is an abstract painting with blue, yellow, orange, purple, and blue.

We’re excited to share a new video from our series ‘Artist Corner’ which are short portraits of artists at @TierraDelSolStudios. Today we have Jeffrey Rinsky from our Sunland studio. Jeffrey loves Christmas, movies, and Green Day! We caught up with him to see what he was up to and asked him what he’s influenced by. #JeffreyRinsky @TierradelSolStudios @TierraDelSolFDN @TierraDelSolGallery #artistcorner ... Image Description: The video is of an artist talking about his drawings wearing glasses and headphones. The video is 3:28 long and has closed captioning. https://vimeo.com/464323678 See more

Alex Trim from Sunland Studios has been working furiously on a number of drawings at home. These photos show drawings he’s been making from home using a strong, animated line and color-washes. We also see a picture of his studio assistant Curious George wearing a red cape! #AlexTrim @TierraDelSolStudios @TierraDelSolGallery @TierraDelSolFDN Image description: Image one is a drawn in black line of flowers that are painted in orange, pink, and green. Image two is a photograph of a man holding a long, horizontal drawing that has flowers along the bottom edge and birdlike shapes across the top. Image three is a photograph of a stuffed animal toy (a monkey) wearing a red bandana as a cape.