City employees: Unleashing their creativity
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
After a 35-year hiatus from drawing, Christopher White decided to pick up a pencil again. Not only did he realize he missed the art, he learned that being a working artist is something he aspires to be. Here, White shows a work-in-progress, a portrait of his father.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Pen-and-ink drawing Christopher White did in 1981 of Lodi City Hall.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Portrait by Christopher White.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Daniel Barriga, who does building maintenance at Hutchins Street Square, airbrushes a painting of a flaming Patron tequila bottle at his family’s auto body shop, Touch of Class, in Lodi. Barriga has been doing airbrush painting on paper and automobiles since he was 16 years old.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Daniel Barriga’s airbrushed portrait of a dancer.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
In addition to showing her stage models, Christina McCollam Martinez will show her paintings and sketches, which show her diverse artistic talents.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
One of the model stages Christina McCollam Martinez created for “Pygmalion”
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Christine Wright, human resources technician for the city, enjoys photographing her travels.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
One of the photographs Christine Wright took while on a drive near Mt. Shasta.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
An admin clerk for the City Clerk’s office, Maria Ditmore, loves to photograph her children, her boxer and weekends spent with family in San Francisco. She will show a photo of her dog at the First Friday Art Hop in January.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Maria Ditmore will show her photograph of her 3-year-old boxer, named Berkeley.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Gena Brentt uses the eraser technique to draw portraits like this one of her Yorkie, who was named Rocky.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Gena Brentt drew this portrait of her neighbor’s dog, Phoebe.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Julie Wall, investigations secretary for the Lodi Police Department, learned to quilt when she joined a Lodi quilting group.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Karen Woods, a library assistant, does pastel painting, a technique she learned in workshops offered through The Knowlton Gallery.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Public works senior civil engineer Lyman Chang sits at his home computer, where he uploads and edits his photographs.
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City employees: Unleashing their creativity
Lyman Chang will show an assortment of his photographs, including his close-up photo of dandelions.
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