Archive for the 'Native plant' Category
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
In a Poppy Garden 8 x 6″ plein air painting oil on panel SOLD Late yesterday afternoon, after painting at Descanso, we went for a walk in Pasadena and I took a pre-sunset hour or so to paint this small study of a beautiful Mediterranean garden in Pasadena on Arlington St, just off Orange Grove. [...]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
“Windblown Cypress Tree” (Southern California seacoast) 11 x 14 oil on canvas SOLD If you’re interested in this painting, please write. From the moment I saw this California cypress tree I knew I had to do an oil painting of it. Most of my tree experience comes from the big four: eucalyptus, oaks, sycamores and [...]
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Garden Path (Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden) 11 x 14 oil on canvas We had a great weekend at the Art in the Garden sale at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, in spite of the ever-present threat of rain. In spite of the light turnout, some of my paintings found new homes and I had [...]
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Fallbrook Fan Palms 12 x 12″ oil on canvas panel I have been so busy this past week that I just woke up and realized that I haven’t posted in awhile, and I’ve had a hard time getting painting time in. The show is going well at Gale’s and I had a wonderful turnout for [...]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Arroyo Springtime Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge painting 16 x 20 oil on canvas
Posted in Architecture, Arroyo Seco, Art, art gallery, artist, California, California art, California Art Club, California impressionism, California impressionist, California oil painting, daily painting, fine art, For Sale, gallery, impressionism, Impressionist, Karen Winters, KWinters, Landscape, Locations, Native plant, Nature, oil painting, Painting, Pasadena, plein air style, San Gabriel Valley, Southern California, spring | 6 Comments »
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Chapparal Trail (Dunsmore Canyon, La Crescenta) 9 x 12 oil We’re having some unseasonably hot weather right now. Today it was in the high 80s and tomorrow it’s likely to be 90. Last year, when I was doing the Sierra Madre Art Fair, it was 100 both days. Because I am showing so many paintings [...]
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
California Wildflower Hills 9 x 12 plein air painting oil on linen panel A few months ago, after keeping an eye on the wildflower reporting sites, we took a trip up into the foothills of the western Sierras. The online sources were right – they really were really spectacular this year. I started this painting [...]
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
The Oak’s New Spring Gown 9 x 12 oil on canvas panel SOLD In the western foothills of the Sierra range, valley oaks begin to deck themselves in fresh green foliage … lacy layers of silken fluff. Out in the meadows they look like girls going to their first big dance. The late light of [...]
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
“The meadow wakes” (Sierra foothills, east of Visalia) 6 x 8 oil on canvas When the first strong rays of light hit a meadow filled with fiddlehead flowers, the mist was still rising from the nearby hills, providing an interesting contrast of saturated and desaturated colors. The statuesque valley oak was just starting to put [...]
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Poppies on the Hill 11 x 14 oil on canvas SOLD, but I have more poppy paintings Interested in a poppy painting? Click this link to write me. See more of my paintings on my website See more of my wildflower paintings here I can’t think of a landscape more quintessentially Californian than spring’s poppy [...]
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