Portraits

Margaret Garcia Highland Park Studio Oil Painting Workshops

Margaret and a small cadre of oil painters meet Wednesday afternoons for her long-running oil painting workshops. Usually a model is provided. Models are friends, neighbors, artists, creatives and friends of friends. The workshop is open to oil painters. While workshop sessions are not teaching sessions, Margaret and other painters provide tips and always “throw down the gauntlet.”

Commission Inquiries Welcome.

**Lars. 2024. Oil on Wood Box. w 11 x h 8 x d 4 in. Available $600**

**Margaret painting Lars. 2024. Margaret Garcia Studio, Los Angeles, CA.**

**Zelda.. 2024. Oil on Canvas. w 48 x h 36 in. Available. $3,500.**

**Lupe. 2024. Oil on Canvas. w: 24 x h: 31.5 in. Available $1,000.**

**Arlene. 2024. Oil on Canvas. w: 24 x h: 31.5 in. Available $1,000.**

**Natasha, Burlesque Queen. 2024. Oil on Wood Panel. w 18 x h 24 in. Available $2,000.**

Un Nuevo Mestizaje Series - 4 Decades of Painting her Community

Margaret wrote, in an essay for her USC Master’s exhibit at Plaza de la Raza (1992) - “Chicano art has definitely had a political birth. The self-awareness that came about in the late sixties and the struggle of the Farmworkers Movement affected me and made me aware of the need to make a contribution. I felt it was important to help define the Chicano community. The ability for a community to come together, otherwise negative stereotypes will persist. During this period I alway painted portraits.

Margaret continues this series to the present.