January 2026

Monthly Club Meeting -- Live Demonstration by Helena Ljoljic​

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Helena is a very engaging self-taught painter, graphic designer and educator. Working primarily in acrylics and watercolor, she currently explores abstract and semi-abstract compositions, but continues to create representational work, such as portraits combined with geometric patterns. Her art is driven by play, curiosity, emotion, and a deep love of color. Helena's paintings have been exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, the Triton Museum of Art, the Pacific Art League, the Mexican Heritage Plaza, and Works/San José.

For this demo/workshop, Helena showed us the possibilities of working with geometry as a form of art. Using simple tools as the ruler and compass, we followed along with the construction of a grid of overlapping circles, known as the Flower of Life. And Helena graciously shared two beautifully detailed PDFs of her artwork and the process for finishing up the complex circle pattern we started in the club meeting.

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You can find more information and images on her website at www.helenaljoljic.com and on Instagram.

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See Helena's demo on the Sunnyvale Art Club's YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/SbcCtI8dfr8.

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