Idyllwild Snows – Karen Winters Daily Painting
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Idyllwild Snows – 10 in x 7.2 in – watercolor
Archive for December, 2007
Pasadena Colorado Street Bridge – 2007
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge – 8 x 10 oil SOLD As the new year approaches, over a million people will make the pilgrimage to Pasadena, California for the Rose Parade. And perhaps one of our most elegant local landmarks is the Colorado Street Bridge, which I’ve painted several times this year and will no revisit [...]
Winter Peace
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Winter Peace – 12 x 16 oil on canvas SOLD On a day like this, with new evidence of the world’s continuing strife and disharmony, I’m posting this recent painting with a wish for peace and harmony in the coming year. My rational side knows that such a wish is unlikely to be fulfilled anytime [...]
Fall in Winter – in La Canada
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Fall in Winter – 9 x 12 watercolor SOLD Today is the winter solstice and here in La Canada, California, the sycamores finally decided to show some fall color. All I can say is “it’s about time!” This is an impressionistic painting of Flint Canyon – an equestrian trail that borders a small creek here [...]
Pond in the Woods
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Pond in the Woods – 7.5 x 7 inches – watercolor As I come to the conclusion of this winter series, I felt an urge to return to my roots in watercolor and to see how my experience of the medium has changed. As I have done in the past, I did no preliminary drawing [...]
Winter Road – Karen Winters Daily Painting
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007“Winter Road” – 8 x 10 acrylic on canvas board Today’s painting has an unusual origin. I wanted to do another snowscape – perhaps a winding road type of picture as I’ve done of some fall and spring scenes. But I lacked a photo reference to work from and there’s no snow close by. So [...]
The Woods in White – Karen Winters Daily Painting
Sunday, December 16th, 2007“The Woods in White” – 8 x 10 – oil on canvas on board High in the mountains above Los Angeles (near Big Bear) we are finally getting snow. Of course it’s the snowmaking equipment at Snow Summit and Bear Mountain, but hey, we’ll take what we can get. I would love to ski again [...]
Snowy field – Karen Winters Daily Painting
Sunday, December 16th, 20079 x 12 acrylic on paper Freshly fallen snow – a moment of quiet winter beauty. In this sketch I’m using acrylic in a watercolor manner. I’ll write more later – things are busy right now.
Snowy Creek – Karen Winters Daily Painting
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007“Snowy Creek” – acrylic on canvas on board – 9 x 12 inches – SOLD I needed something on a holiday theme to take for show and tell to an art association meeting, and there was no time for oil to dry, so I painted this in acrylic in a very loose, impressionistic method, using [...]
Live Oak and Aloes – Huntington Gardens Plein Air Painting
Monday, December 10th, 2007Oak and Aloes – 9 x 12 oil on canvas In the desert garden area of Huntington Botanical Gardens there is a mature live oak tree surrounded by exotic desert and tropical plants, many of which have an origin in South Africa. Winter is the time for aloes to bloom – and their red flower [...]
