Cathleen Rehfeld

A little landscape of oak trees around here, the Columbia Gorge area. I was trying out the water mixable oil paints with this little paintin...

Every object is a piece of sculpture that is a challenge to use all your best painting skills to try to successfully depict a sense of light...

I saw these peppers in the grocery, and couldn't resist them because of their intense orange color. The peppers themselves are a work of...

Shadows are my fascination right now. The color/value and edges.

Red and green on an orange surface was really fun to paint. The shadow on orange was visually interesting to me. I am all about shadow explo...

Painting translucent objects is a challenge. The light shining through an object can be deceiving. It still produces a shadow even though l...

I love the color of this cup.

This one was fun, I had no idea how it would turn out...

Thinking of blue and green today...

This one is a study for a larger commissioned painting 30 x 30 inches.

The Oregon high desert.

This turned out to be a study for a 40" x 40" painting for a contemporary show at the Columbia Center for the Arts.

More red. This painting is available for purchase. 3 3/4 x 6 inches :: oil on panel buy it on ebay: http://stores.ebay.com/CATHLEENRE...

A rainy day. 4x6 inches :: oil on panel

Experimenting with red.

More red backgrounds.

Looking down the Gorge to the West.

Close to Horsethief Lake, in Washington on the Columbia River.

I did this painting in 2006, I started doing a painting a day, and then got distracted by the Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour that I partici...