Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Bishop Byway 9 x 12 oil on canvas panel SOLD Today’s painting is a rural scene from Bishop, California, focusing on the beauty of fall in this eastern Sierra community. The warm color palette suggests afternoon light. Bishop receives little rainfall during the year (the Sierra catches most of the precipitation on its high peaks.) [...]
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
“High Desert Grazing” 5 x 7 inch oil miniature If you have a question or or would like to find out if a painting is still available for sale….. Write Me This small oil painting is a memory of our recent trip up into the eastern Sierra. Looking westward one sees the mighty Sierra Nevada [...]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Loch Shiel, Scotland 12 x 16 oil on canvas commission (sold) This painting, painted as a commission, depicts a historic site in the highlands of Scotland in the village of Glenfinnan. It is the site where bonnie Prince Charlie raised his standard at the beginning of the Jacobite rising in 1745. Glenfinnan sits at the [...]
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Crystal Crag (view from Lake Mary) Mammoth Lakes, California 5 x 7″ acrylic Interested in this painting? Write me. See more of my paintings on my website The first snow at Mammoth Lakes, California, dusted the Crystal Crag formation overlooking Lake Mary. More storms would follow creating tall drifts contrasting vividly with the blue of [...]
Posted in Acrylic Painting, Art, art gallery, artist, California, California art, California impressionism, California impressionist, California landscape, daily painting, Eastern Sierras, fine art, For Sale, Impressionist, impressionists, Karen Winters, KWinters, Lake, Landscape, Mammoth, Mammoth Lakes, Mountains, Nature, Painting, Sierra Nevada, Snowscape | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Vineyard Eucalyptus 8 x 10 oil on linen panel SOLD – but I have other vineyard paintings at vineyardpaintings.com Visit my gallery site for an archive of available and sold paintings If you have a question or or would like to find out if a painting is still available for sale….. Write Me Two of [...]
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
“Arroyo Seco Trail” 9 x 12 inches, oil on canvas SOLD (commission) I like to paint new things, as a rule, because it’s fun to interpret new subject matter and challenge myself – but from time to time I get a request from a client to paint a new version of a previous painting. In [...]
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
“Cottonwood Road” 9 x 12 inches Oil This is the next in my series of fall Sierra paintings, this time with a complementary color palette of orange and blue – a combo that is easy to find in autumn. The Sierra Nevada range rises steeply from Owens Valley and in the afternoon takes on a [...]
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
“Soaring” 16 x 12 oil on canvas We’re finally getting rain in Southern California – a welcome change from the excessive drought of this past year. I hope that it is sufficient to sink down deep and nourish the parched root systems of all of our plants. They could use a good long drink. I’m [...]
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
“The Knitting Basket” SOLD (commissioned work) 11 x 14 oil on canvas This painting was a pleasure to paint for a client as a Christmas gift for a family member, portraying the items the person uses in pursuit of her favorite hobby, knitting. Although I had not painted knitting before, I felt confident that I [...]
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
“The Red Barn” – near Visalia, Calif 9 x 12 inches, oil on linen panel This painting was an experiment using a very limited palette of primarily viridian and burnt sienna. A little yellow ochre was used in the sky, and a dash of cadmium red highlighted the top of the barn, but all of [...]
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