Cathleen Rehfeld

Every Friday we have a model come and pose for us, for a long pose - 3 hours at the Columbia Center for the Arts. It is a great opportunity ...

I had to try my hand at a bell pepper. Edward Weston had no idea what he started. They are beautiful subjects to paint. So sculptural. 5x...

This is Tomato #6. The end of the Tomato series. I definitely learned some things from doing this series. I enjoyed Carol Marine's video...

More ways to paint a tomato. This is tomato #5. One more to go. I bought a bunch of fabric napkins of different patterns and solid colors th...

Tomato #4. I like all the colors in the shadow of this one. 6X6 inches :: oil on panel

I like the way this one turned out. My class said they didn't like the background color as much as Tomato 2. You can't please everyo...

I decided that I'm going to paint this tomato 6 times. This is painting #2 for the tomato.

Cholula Hot Sauce! This is a fun bottle to paint. I had problems taking the photo though. I couldn't seem to get the glare off of the pa...

I saw Carol Marine's key limes painting, and I was running out the door to get to my Oil Painting Basics class that I teach every quarte...

Concentrating on color palettes - contrasting, analgous. And the shadow colors they cast on each other and surfaces. 6x6 inches:: oil on p...

Analgous Colors. I like the way the lemon behind the limes turned out. Mostly because of the edges. These little things (the lemons and lim...

I was reading the book, "Classical Painting Atelier" by Juliette Aristides, about use of a limited palette. So I did this painting...

The thing I like best about this is the contrast between the light blue cup and the intense red background. 6x6 inches :: oil on panel

I wasn't posting for a while because I had a show at Art on the Boulevard, opening on April 4, and a Gorge Artists Open Studio Sale at m...

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...