Comments on: Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: delph

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:24:36 +0000

What a beautiful, peaceful scenery! Love the colors and openness (is that a word?), it’s very soothing!

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Barb Pask

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:15:03 +0000

Beautiful! I love the colors in this.

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Marian Fortunati

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:26:07 +0000

You will probably need to keep painting as I’ll bet this one finds a home before your show! Very very nice.
You obviously have leaned quite a lot in your studies and seem to have a beautiful “voice” as you paint! Who ARE those teachers you’ve studied with?

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Deb

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:12:00 +0000

Gorgeous colors! It’s splendid!!!!

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Margaret Hunt

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:06:55 +0000

another beauty!! good luck with the show…we have one going up in OMG sept…did i say i am NOT ready

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Ann

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:30:28 +0000

Lovely. I really like the mood created by the soft light in this.

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Donn

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:38 +0000

Beautiful, as usual. Your oil paintings are really great. Really liked your ocean one too.

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Karen

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:18:21 +0000

Mindy, yes we certainly do have a richness of subject matter here, don’t we?

Windsong and Marva, thank you.

Brenda, yes I think you will enjoy the gardens a lot

Sharon, thank you for your comment yes, there is a connection there. Although I don’t have formal (art school) training, I have been studying with a number of very good painters for the past few years and I treasure what they’ve taught me. I also take workshops with excellent demonstrators, so that has been a good experience as well.

My artist friend Laura Wambsgans said to me the other day …”it is said that in the beginning a painter paints like everyone … then they paint like their teacher … and finally they paint like themself. I am still exploring a lot of different approaches to painting, and taking what I like and leaving the rest. One of the artists of the past who has influenced me the most lately is George Inness - his work straddles realism and impressionism, with a lot of tonalism for good measure. Because I like all of those movements, I feel “at home” with his (later) style.

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Sharon

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:55:24 +0000

Karen,

I have been meaning to comment for a while. I was born in Pasadena and have a relative in Wisconsin so many of your paintings are like going home. Your style is so beautiful and rich. You wrote once that you did not have formal training and aren’t you glad, for they probably would have sent you off in a whole different direction and then we would have missed this vision you bring to your work.

Comment on Santa Barbara Meadow - Karen Winters California Impressionist Oil Painting by: Brenda

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:43:06 +0000

What a gorgeous scene and you’ve captured lovely soft colors. I agree, our solid blue skies certainly can be boring when painting - ha ha. They are a beautiful blue, but really have no personality. I’ve not been to the SB botanical gardens and simply MUST put it on my “to go” list.