Linda Mutti
Featured Artist
One Fine Day by Linda Mutti
This painting was recently selected as a finalist for the 10th Annual Plein Air Salon!
Join us via Zoom for an evening with our own Linda Mutti!
Linda will be showing her landscape process and the things she thinks about before and during the painting process. She will start off with doing a notan, then a watercolor underpainting along with pastel ground for texture. She will then discuss simplification of shapes for a stronger composition. Finally, she will demonstrate layering colors and using neutrals to achieve a beautiful richness to her painting.
Gratitude by Linda Mutti
Midnight Run by Linda Mutti
About Linda…
Linda was born in Tucson, Arizona, and moved to California at the age five. A passion for drawing and painting began in early childhood and continues to this day. The love of horses and the California landscape is evident in the subjects of many of Linda’s paintings and drawings. Linda works in oil, pastel, and pencil.
Linda has studied under such noted artists as Richard McKinley, Albert Handell, Glenna Hartmann, Kim Lordier, Skip Whitcomb, Matt Smith, and Scott Christensen. Linda was accepted for apprenticeship with internationally acclaimed muralist, John Pugh.
Linda is an award winning Distinquished Pastelist Member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, an Artist Member of the esteemed California Art Club, an Eminent Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel Societies, a Signature Member with American Women Artists, an OAK Group member, an American Impressionist Society Signature Member, and a Women Artists of the West member. She is also a member of the Santa Barbara Art Association and SCAPE (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment). Her paintings are held in collections across the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. She has been an invited artist participating in quick draw festivals and street painting festivals in Los Olivos, San Rafael, Santa Barbara, and San Diego.
The Dreamer, Looking into Hope by Linda Mutti