Charlotte Arnold Fine Art

EDUCATION:
California State University, Los Angeles, BA, Art, 1983
WORKSHOPS:
Scott Tallman Powers - Oil Painting
Ann Frantzen – Oil Painting
Clayton Beck III – Oil Painting
William Schnieder - Oil Painting
David Lefel – Oil Painting
Sherrie McGraw – Life Drawing
The National Portrait Seminar
Daniel Green – Oil and Pastel Portraiture
Ann Manray Kenyon – Oil and Watercolor
Timothy Clark – Watercolor
Frank Webb – Watercolor
Charles Reid – Watercolor
The Scottsdale Artists School – Anatomy
Albert Handel – Oil
Karl Dempwolf – Oil
Ralph Oberg – Oil
Dan Goozee – Oil
John Budicin – Oil
Jeff Horn – Oil
Art Center College of Design
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS:
Beverly McNeil Gallery, Destin, Florida
Upper Bay Gallery, Houston TX 77058
JURIED EXHIBITIONS:
2009, Platinum Exhibition, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago
2007, Silver Medal Water Color Exhibition, Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago, IL
2006, Figure show Arts Alliance Center, Clear Lake Texas
2005, Sixth Annual Texas City Art Festival, Texas 1st Place Oils
2004, Laguna Plein Air Painters Figurative Show, California
2004, Montrose-Verdugo Chamber Show, California
2003, Mountainside Gallery, Monrovia, California
1998, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida
1996, Third Floor…City Hall, Ventura, California
1996, California Gold Coast Watercolor Spring Exhibition
1996, Buenaventura Art Association Fall Exhibition, Ventura, California
1995, Grayton Beach Fine Arts Festival, Grayton Beach, Florida Award
1995, Woman 2 Woman, Soho Gallery, Pensacola, Florida
1994, Grayton Beach Fine Arts Festival, Grayton Beach Florida
1994, Ft Walton Beach Art Museum Thirteenth Annual Fine Art Exhibition, Ft Walton Beach, Florida Award
1993, Grayton Beach Fine Arts Festival, Grayton Beach, Florida
1993, Arts and Design Society Spring Fling, Okaloosa Community College, Niceville, Florida Award
1992, Grayton Beach Fine Arts Festival, Grayton Beach, Florida
1991, 17th Annual Transparent Watercolor Show, Panama City, Florida
GROUP SHOWS:
2011, Gold Medal Exhibition, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago
2010, Two Artists Two Visions, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago
2010, Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago (Award)
2009, Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago
2009, Gold Medal Exhibition, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, Chicago
2008, Fourth Annual PAPC Exhibition, Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago, IL
2008, Sculpture & Drawing, Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago, IL
2007, The Spirit of Winter, PAPC-SW, Tavern Club, Chicago IL.
2006, Figurative Invitational Show, Arts Alliance Center, Clear Lake, Texas
2004, Locals Only, Beverly McNiel Gallery, Destin, Florida
2004, Ebell Women's Club Invitational Show, Los Angeles, California
2003, Artists Celebrate the Cosmos, Carnegie Observatories, California
1997, Metamorphosis Figure Show, Ojai, California
1996, Faces and Figures, Ojai, California Award
1996, Four Person Exhibition, Ojai Center for the Arts, Ojai, California
ONE WOMAN SHOWS:
2009, New Paintings and Drawings, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art
2008, Change is Good, Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art
2006, Upper Bay Gallery, Houston Texas
2005, Internet Café/Gallery Fall 2005 Exhibition Clear Lake City/County Freeman Branch Library
2003, East Coast Meets West Coast, Beverly McNiel Gallery, Seaside, Florida
1990, Featured Artist of the Month, Gallery at Grayton, Grayton Beach, Florida
ORGANIZATIONS:
Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art
Portrait Society of America
California Art Club, Painting Patron
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
Houston Watercolor Association
Oil Painters of America
Plein Air Florida, Invitational Member
Chicago Plein Air Painters-Southwest Suburbs
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Walsh Group, Chicago, Illinios
Providence Saint Joseph Hospital, Burbank, California
Ft Walton Beach Medical Center, Ft Walton Beach, Florida
AmSouth Bank, Ft Walton Beach, Florida
Children's Advocacy Center, Niceville, Florida
Bay Medical Center, Panama City, Florida
Ann Baranco Center for Women's Health, Pensacola, Florida

There is nothing as gratifying as creating a painting outdoors. It can also be frustrating...and addictive. Hot, cold, windy, rainy, bugs, bees, etc. I remember in Italy taking at least 40 minutes deciding on what I wanted to paint. It was all so incredible. I was finally all set up and ready to go when a fierce wind whipped from around a corner and blew my easel into the street. I've dropped canvasses in the sand and taken home paintings with gnats embedded in the paint. I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

On a good day the colors, smells, and sounds of Mother Nature cannot help but lend magic to a painting. The artist reacts with what he sees, smells, and hears. Unlike painting from photographs, this can breathe life into a painting. The same can be said about working from a model. As they sit for you their spirit becomes an important part of the painting. Their moods, their gestures, are all important elements. You cannot get this "freshness" from a photograph. It has been a life long passion of mine to study color in nature. I have painted for many years outdoors in watercolor. For the past two years I have switched focus to oils. I am enjoying the challenges that changing mediums presents. I hope I have another 50 years left. I will surely need them, as I will always be a life long student, looking for another answer to all those many questions.