Silly Chickens - Go Around the Globe - sold

6"x6" :: oil on archival panel

I signed up to participate in the adventures of the traveling chicken, they arrived a few days ago to my house, and here they are! I will be sending them off to the next lucky artist… someone recently asked me if I ever paint "silly" things. I think these chickens definitely qualify as silly! Click this link to read more about the Chicken Project.http://travel-chicken.blogspot.com

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Indian Creek Color

Indian Creek Color :: 6"x6" :: oil on archival linen panel

Indian Creek Trail in the Fall/Winter. I do this walk almost every day looking down on the Hood River below.

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Cloud Glow

6"x6" :: oil on linen archival panel

I am getting paintings ready for the Art A Day show for the month of June, at the Columbia Center for the Arts! There will be 6 artists participating in this invitational show. 30 paintings x 6 artists = a lot of paintings, approximately 180 paintings in this show! The opening reception will be on June 7, from 6-8pm. I hope you can make it!

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Big Rocks, Smith Rocks

6"x6" :: oil on archival linen panel

The weather was typical Spring changeable that afternoon. See the thunderstorm in the distance that just passed over, and the sun was coming out again…

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Crooked River Evening, Smith Rock Oregon

6"x6" :: oil on archival linen panel

A magical time of evening.
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Bend in the Crooked River at Smith Rock, Oregon

6"x6" :: oil on linen archival panel

This is from the banks of the Crooked River at Smith Rock, from my recent trip to Terrebonne, OR. So fun to re-live it!

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Smith Rock Glow

8"x8" :: oil on archival linen panel

The light hitting the rocks in the evening...

I am going to be in an art show at The Dalles Art Center, in The Dalles Oregon. This show opens on Thursday May 2, reception is from 5-7pm. The show goes for the whole month of May. Come by and check it out in person! The show has quite a few of my paintings from the Bend and Smith Rock area of Oregon.

Smith Rock Evening Light, Terrebonne, Oregon - sold

6"x6" :: oil on panel

I had so much fun taking the photos of Smith Rock, and then fun again painting it. The light was just right when we were there.

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High Desert Trees and Clouds on the Road to Terrebonne

6"x6" :: oil on archival linen panel

It's STUDIO SALE time again! The Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour is this weekend! Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 5pm. You can get maps at any of the coffee shops in Hood River, OR. 29 Artists on the Tour this year, come to Hood River and check it out.

As you can tell, I am really into painting the Juniper Trees and Clouds that I saw on my trip to the Oregon High Desert.

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Cline Falls Road, Bend Oregon

Cline Falls Road :: 6"x6" oil on archival panel

Sometimes I just like trying to make a painting "feel" like a place that I was. When I was in Bend, OR, a couple of weeks ago, the weather was high desert showery, some snow, some rain, sun, everything Spring can throw at you.


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High Desert Clouds

Juniper, Sagebrush… love the clouds…

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Shades of Gray in the Oregon High Desert

6" x 6" :: oil on linen archival panel :: Shades of Gray

I recently visited the high desert area around Bend, Oregon. The approaching spring storms added to the excitement, a little snow, a little rain, a little sun…

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The Hood River

The Hood River :: 6" x 6" :: oil on panel

I do this walk almost every day… looking through the oak trees to the Hood River flowing below out to the Columbia River.
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Yellow and Coral Roses

8" x8" :: oil on archival panel

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Blues with Apple - sold

6" x 6" :: oil on archival panel

This painting was in "The Blues" show at Columbia Center for the Arts. I really enjoy exploring analogous colors.

Roses - sold

3 3/4' wide x 8" height :: oil on canvas board

Roses Study, this is a totally unique format because... it just ended up that way.

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Columbia Gorge Trees - sold

14" x 18" :: oil on cradled basswood

Taking this painting to Columbia Arts in the Gallery today (plus 2 other smaller paintings) for the new show for this month, Gorge Artists Open Studios Preview Show, the public reception is this Friday March 1 from 6-8pm.

This painting has a very cool frame, the framing was done at Framing Resource in Portland OR, they did a beautiful job with this contemporary floater frame.

Valentine Rose

They last so much longer in a painting...

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Reflections of Green

Green apples reflecting in a green bowl.

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One Red Apple - sold

I really liked painting the apples in and outside of the green glass bowl. What a challenge!

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The Little Green Apples - sold

I love making painterly still lifes!
It was fun to put all the colors that I saw into the apples.

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Five Apples - sold

The fun in this was making the brushstrokes describe the shape of the apples. The Green Granny Smiths and the Red Delicious are so different in their shapes, the green apples are round, smooth, the red apples are more angular, sort of a "muscular" apple.

The Blues

I painted a group of small paintings for the upcoming art show at the Columbia Center for the Arts, The Blues. This is one of the paintings that I decided to put online for sale. I will have a group of paintings in the show, that all have something to do with BLUE. The show is not just paintings, it's music, and many kinds of art…
The show reception opens next week Friday, February 1, 6-8pm at the Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, Oregon.

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Poster for "The Blues" Show

Clementines

Gotta get back in the painting groove!
I was really getting into the "grays" in this one, the contrast between intense orange and turquoise (complementary colors) and all the grays in-between.
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My Favorite Tea Pot - sold

This is really my favorite teapot! I was really working to get the feeling of that round fiestaware teapot in this painting.
The turquoise of the teapot and rich cadmium yellow plate, are nice complements to each other in this composition. I'm using neutral grays to balance and bring out the contrast between the bright colors and the neutrals.

Almost Breakfast -sold

I took some time off for the holidays, but I'm back at the Daily Painting groove now. My husband and I did a lot of skiing and relaxing over the holidays, I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

Odd Little Green Teapot - sold

6"x6" :: oil on archival panel

I have had this little teapot for a few years, I was absolutely enchanted with the weird green color.

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Turquoise Tea Pot and Apples in the Shadow

6"x6" :: Oil on archival panel

The Turquoise Fiestaware Tea Pot looks great with the apples. I was instructing my weekly oil painting class at Columbia Center for the Arts this morning, and this was my demo painting for the class.
Melanie Thompson, a daily painter on Daily Paintworks Website, drove all the way from Richland WA to come to my 3 hr class, at the art center this morning. I love meeting other Daily Painters in person! Thanks Melanie for coming to my class in Hood River, OR!

AND I have had so much fun painting this teapot, my super cool cousin is sending me another cool Fiestaware teapot to paint (it's a very tall blue one), among other colorful random fiesta pieces.

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Holiday Treasures Show

I just delivered several framed paintings (8"x8") to the Holiday Treasures show at Columbia Arts!
All the participating artists are offering small gems (nothing over 14") at great prices. There's nothing better than a one-of-a-kind gift!
First Friday, December 7 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Red Apple and Asian Bowl

6"x6" :: oil on archival panel :: Red Apple and Asian Bowl

I am always working on different concepts with each small painting. Today, I was working on everything. Composition of shapes, light vs dark, intense chroma vs neutrals, variety of brushstrokes…I love this bowl, it's one of my still life inspirations from Uwagimaya in Portland. If you haven't been there, it's worth going.

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