Featured are oil paintings, short videos, and a blog by Leigh Cohn, who is self-taught and uses a projector technique. He has given away more than 350 canvases, which are hanging in the offices of Forever Balboa Park (formerly the Balboa Park Conservancy) in San Diego, Carlsbad City Hall, homes, and offices. In 2022, supporters of his artwork donated $13,617 to the Ocean Conservancy, and in 2023 he had a two-month "Featured Artist" solo exhibit at the Carlsbad Senior Center, where he teaches painting classes and lectures on Impressionism.

Leigh painting "Reflections of Monet"

Read the blog article, "I Sold My First Painting" which tells the story of a 12-foot commission based on Monet's "Green Reflections. Includes the painting process, why I made the sale, the price paid, and 3-minute video.

Water Lilies (after Monet Nymphéas 1906) 2024 • 60 x 48

This six-week class at the Carlsbad Senior Center is specifically for participants of my previous classes. (Sept 19 - Oct 24)

Scripps Beach North #2 (2023) 18 x 36 • $1,000

This "Coastal Paintings" fundraiser includes nine San Diego County pictures with proceeds going to a local nonprofit that supports local environmental conservation, public art, and Surf Camps and art experiences for special needs kids.

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"Claude Monet & the Age of Impressionism"

Carlsbad Senior Center & Streaming

October 30, 2024 • 3:00-4:30

Here’s the inside story of how Impressionism began:

•  The four painters who became close friends as students…
•  Why 1,500 of Pissarro’s were destroyed
•  How Renoir avoided a firing squad
•  Manet was no Monet
•  The love lives and personalities of the key figures
•  Berthe Morisot was the first woman in the "anonymous society"
•  A deceased painter had the idea for an exhibit
•  Who Monet called "The greatest of us all"
… and much more!

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