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California Landscape Oil Painting - Crescenta Canada Valley View "Crescenta Canada Valley View" 9 x 12 oil on canvas on board An early morning impression of La Crescenta and La Canada from up in Cherry Canyon, looking eastward. The foothills of the Angeles Crest National Forest are seen in the distance.
For more information about this painting, please writehttp://www.karenwinters.comhttp://www.karensblog.comTags: california, daily painter, daily painting, eucalyptus, for sale, impressionist, karen winters, landscape, mountain, nature, oil painting, painting
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 "California Summer Hillside - at Pacific Palisades, Will Rogers State Park"
Plein air painting 11 x 14 oil on stretched canvas. Yesterday I enjoyed the company of the Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains for a paint out at Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Palisades. I saw many faces I knew from the California Art Club, Artists of the Canyon, and other paint-out groups, and we all had a wonderful day enjoying the mild good weather and range of painting subjects. It was a little breezy and I struggled getting my umbrella to shade my work but finally gave up and positioned my medium sized Yarka easel so that the sun wouldn't strike it directly. Note to self: bring a sandbag next time for the umbrella and stand. It had been left in the other car. Because I positioned myself at a trailhead I had the pleasure of talking with many hikers on that beautiful Saturday morning, including some who were quite knowledgeable about impressionism and the growing popularity of plein air painting. It really is undergoing a revival! After the paintout we enjoyed a potluck lunch and shared stories about galleries, shows, teachers, art products and more. I always have a good time getting together with artists - for all our solitary pursuits we can also be gregarious. Tags: california, eucalyptus, impressionist, karen winters, landscape, mountain, oil painting, pacific palisades, paint out, plein air, summer, will rogers state park
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 Dana Point Headlands - 18 x 24 oil on canvas This brand new painting features the headlands of Dana Point near the Ocean Institute. You can see the face looking out to sea on the sharp edge of the cliff. I don’t know if that’s the author Dana after which Dana point was named or some other mythological figure. If someone reading this knows the answer, please point the answer, ok? It's been a long time since I've posted here, and I'm going to try to keep it up to date along with my main blog site at http://www.karensblog.comIf there are other comments or questions about this art, you'll find them here: http://karenwinters.com/kblog/2008/06/04/dana-point-headlands-oil-painting-seascape-surf-ocean-institute-beach-california-impressionist/The Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden show show went very well. Thanks to all those who purchased works from me, and thanks as well as some very special guests who made the trek out to Claremont to say hello. A few nights ago, I attended A Taste of Art at Gale’s Restaurant in Pasadena, where a group of artists (including me) all donated artwork to be sold to support the AIDS Service Center. It was great food, great wine, tons of good art and all for a wonderful cause. Now I am back to my everyday painting routine, with many new works to come. So, watch this space … new art is on the way. Tags: beach, dana point, for sale, karen winters, marine, ocean, oil painting, orange county, sea, seascape, water
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 Lions at the Gate - 8 x 10 oil on canvas on board The truth in advertising part of this program compels me to confess that this was all painted from life at a paintout except for the sky - because I inadvertantly left the house without my tubes of paint - and there was insufficient cerulean and cobalt on my palette to do the deed without running out. So I used what skimpy blue I had to fill the area with the right color thinned with mineral spirits, but the thicker paint had to be applied after I got back home. There. I feel so much better. Frankly, I might repaint that tree that has already shed its leaves, but I sort of liked the fact that it represented fall at the gardens. So I'll have to think on that for awhile. The story of this painting is mainly about light - how it falls on the facade of the teahouse and the lion(s) that guard its entrance. The other lion is obscured by the front one so I left it out. OK, and here's some art news. On Sunday I took the below painting to the San Gabriel Fine Arts Association meeting - which I've missed attending due to being at Descanso and other commitments, and I was thrilled to get first prize among the paintings displayed for competition, and to be chosen as artist of the month. The painting will go into the SGFAA gallery on Wednesday for a month and will compete in December for artist of the year.  And this painting got an award at the Verdugo Hills Art Association fall show. All in all, a good month!  Tags: architecture, daily painter, for sale, gardens, oil painting, plein air
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 "As the Parade Passed By" - 12' x 15" watercolor on paper.
VIVA Gallery April 19 - NWS all member showLast week, I got some very good news that I'd like to share with you. If you've been following this blog for the last year or so you can imagine how much this "first time" means to me. I found out that this new painting, "As the Parade Passed By" has been juried into the Natl. Watercolor Society's all member show, which will be hung in about a month at the VIVA gallery in Sherman Oaks, California (in the San Fernando Valley.) I am delighted to be included in this show of other NWS members and look forward to becoming more involved through activities and future competitions as well. The painting was developed from an original photograph I took at a parade not too long ago. The man had a faraway look that I wanted to work with and enhance in watercolor. It was painted about two weeks ago. The watermark, of course, is not on the original. When I got my MJ at UCLA, one of my favorite J-school classes was photojournalism. To be able to fade invisibly into a crowd and capture a face, a look, a moment, still fills me with excitement. Translating that into another medium has made the experience all the more enjoyable and precious. Detail:  My main blog is here http://www.karensblog.com
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 For sale ..... Click to bidNot too long ago we were taking a walk through a wetlands area and we suddenly came upon a huge flock of crows, starting to settle for the night. They were foraging for seeds on palm trees and literally roosting everywhere. Easily there were thousands of them, perching on trees and bushes, rooftops, fences and anything else that provided a stable or not so stable foothold. I shot a lot of pictures of the flock, and one of my favorites was of this bird, just after lift-off. As posted at http://www.karensblog.comTags: corvid, crow, daily painter, painting, painting a day, watercolor
Current Mood: creative
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 Frida's Dream - oil - 2.5 inches x 3.5 inches - ACEO - Art Card Collectible and Editions
Painted on gessoed archival matboard Bid on this item - closes December 27Here's something in a completely different style from my usual ... but it was a project that I enjoyed doing very much. It's this month's entry for eBay's Nibblefest art contest ... where bidding starts at 99 cents and the objective is to gain as many bids as possible, even at small increments. This month's theme is "Dreams" and since I had already decided I wanted to do a portrait, I thought I'd make it a small one in this very collectible format and as a twist, to paint it in a folk art style. Because this is fresh off the easel I couldn't scan it, one of the biggest challenges turned out to be trying to photograph it. I looked at several of her self-portraits as reference material to study her face, but this is not a copy of any one of them. Rather, I drew a preliminary sketch based on that input, and then painted based on that. It was also inspired by a 1940 painting of hers, "The Dream" - in which she is lying in a four poster bed, asleep, and vines are twining up from her feet to cover her bedcovers. A skeleton looms above her. The dream that I represent here is more of a reverie, a meditative interlude. I'd like to think that she had some moments of quietness and calm in her turbulent and painful life. Tags: aceo, atc, daily painting, for sale, oil painting, portrait
Current Mood: artistic
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