Online Gallery Notes, April 16, 2020

Yong Hong Zhong: My Grandmother. I worked from photos that I took of her when I visited NY over the years. I have been thinking about her lately because of the pandemic and glad that she is doing well. I tried not just focus on getting the likeness but capturing her personality as well. I need more practice!  —This is one of the biggest oak trees @johanvineyards
This location also has one of the best vista views of the Willamette Valley. 

Regina Atwood: Littles  3”x3” 

Celeste Bergin: I had a dream about Carrie Holst (who passed away in December). It was a positive, uplifting dream that featured her work (she loved experimenting with things like linocut). In honor of the dream I did this linocut of a bird (thanks for the photo reference Tim Young). A few days later I had the idea to do a linocut of Tim Young! I had confidence that his unique look would translate well into a graphic. The ink filled in some detail, but it still reads as him. Both of these efforts fit the ‘remember’ prompt..because I’m remembering how great it is to have good friends, both in the past and in the present. —I am also submitting a floral I painted in my online class with Za. (We paint during the zoom conference and then show her our results near the end of the class). 

Marti Brandtner: This is a painting I did a few years back of my Aunts on my Fathers side...Titled Easter Parade, as remembering getting ready for church! Since the topic this week is "Remember"...remember taking off in that ole truck or car for the first time? This is a painting of one of my cousins daughters! So much fun!! Painting 2: And Away WE Go!! Chelsea and the grandpas truck!

Annie Cannon: A friend sent me https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/style/coronavirus-diaries-social-history.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Style so I decided to try one (a painting out the window). It should be titled "Even a tiny painting can be overworked!"  Version A was taken under incadecsent light, Version B, outside.

Tedd Chilless: “Painting of N” 12”x 12” oil sketch

Stephanie Cissna: Remember: sunflowers from my sister. These were a birthday surprise, just one of many ways this was a birthday to remember with love, during the time of the pandemic.

Mark Ivan Cole: "Silence Beckons" Various soft pastels on Strathmore, 8x10"
The storm will pass. The stones remain. If we listen, silence beckons.

Hilarie Couture: Remembering my first oil painting 7 years ago. I did not know anything about painting in oil but I kept this one because it was my first 

Tom Daniels: In the woods with a couple of logs. Train cars and loading platform. The old red barn. Boat at anchor on the Columbia. 

Kathy DAllegri: From my garden, "Orange Blossom," Watercolor 8" x 8." 30 minutes

Cheryl DesRuisseaux: On the Collawash River. 

Sharman Frances: No text

Geri Graley: I miss seeing you all in person every week.  For this week, here is “Sunken Treasure”, a quirky abstract (acrylic & pen on watercolor paper). I started it three weeks ago, inspired by two white doily drawings in the center and random splotches of color, and ending up with this strange creature a couple days ago! Quelle surprise! 🤪! The other sketch is from this week’s Self Portrait Sunday (scribbled ballpoint pen on paper). Love to you all! 

Joanne Kollman: Remembering and finding past paintings and making some indoor changes to them as I watch the changing light in the sky and on the trees from my window.

Bhavani Krishnan: Ah! I thought today was thursday lol.. .clearly Im living the quarantine life :) 

Susan Kuznitsky: One of my Gabriel Park studies . 8 x 8 oil Missing our meetings!

Anna Lancaster: Some home work for our art classes with Za Vue and Jennifer Diehl.

Loretta Lang: A redone painting from last fall but could be spring! And a spring bouquet of forsythia and flowering current.. Here are a few small ones from my trip to Arizona also.

Robin Laughlin: Oil and cold wax from a photo I took riding the train to see a friend. Remember when we could ride the train all Willy nilly?!

Don Lonsbrough: Hi Gang! How is everyone doing? Looks like we are all staying creative! I took up the challenge and did a self portrait this week, and have done some daily paintings! Love and good health to you all!

Ken Mazzochi: As a child I built houses with bricks. I grew up in the East Coast in old mill towns, with lots of brick. I've been told that my father was a bricklayer/mason. Brick warms my 💚, so when I saw a picture of an old brick arch I decided to paint one. 

Suzanne McKay: I haven't painted outdoors for quite awhile. But, I did this Pastel last Sunday, of my old shed, titled, "Peeling Paint."

Mary McNeil: An exercise done remembering a class with Annie Salness. 

Jerry Mishler: Time in the studio put to good use:  Title - Stranded,  12x16 oil on canvas panel.

Pamela Mlady:  This was painted of my great aunt Ella, who was like a grandmother to me. I found a tiny little photo of her from the 1900’s and painted a large portrait of her. I never saw her this young, obviously, but loved the old fashioned clothes. Painting 2: Just finished, (I think). Late for the spring video.

Wendy Morseth: Bleeding Hearts.

Lisa Moss Marshall: Longing for summer

Porter: A white rose is never white...and working in a sketchbook can give an artist hope...at least for a little while. Have been wanting to paint this sunflower from my photo for some time...perhaps I should have restrained myself! It's difficult to emulate the brilliance of such a flower. A good learning experience regardless. I have to get better at background foliage.

Chris Rectenwald: I got to try out using Liquin Impasto. Super fun! Also, revised my self-portrait. Self explanatory.

Sanson: A painting for the "Remember" topic - And The World Changed - done two years ago. Mixed media A study done last night for something new - Garden Study - Goauche

Jeffrey Scherer: The news makes me blue.. (Profile) My continuing series related to my mood in these dark days. This one is about contemplating the loss of health care professionals working w covid-19 patients. The oak at midnight.

Raphael Schnepf: Camilia 8" x 8" oil on muslin board cradled panel.

George Schweser: Here is a pencil study of a tree ,7x9, in the Fanno Creek area of Beaverton near Hall &217 . It had great character in the craggy,knots and twisted limbs .

Kristina Sellers: This may need a little tweeking but it's mostly done. Makes me look forward to 4th of July and picnics and all that good sort of stuff!

Jessi Sevy: I didn't have a productive week, so I tried something different.

Dianna Shyne: Apple Basket. Acrylic on canvas, Tuesdays Porch Painting. I'm a little rusty, but I'll keep at it. I have lots of porches.

Donna Sires: Our remodel is mostly done and I can get back into my studio again. Spent the last few days deciding what to paint next and mounting my paper. Since it’s spring I thought I’d share some bees and a ladybug I did a few years ago.

Nancy Smith-Klos: The Blue Vase 8 x 10" oil on canvas Parrot Tulips Oil on 10 x 10"

Linda Sprau: “Old Homestead Ruins” by Linda Sprau, Acrylic on canvas. This is on Decatur Island in the San Juan’s

Donna Stevens: Fait accompli! ... at long last ...The sculptures accompanying me in this portrait were created by Katy McFadden of Portland. On the topic of Memories...
This painting was inspired by a glass vase with dried white calla lilies on top on a friend's refrigerator. The leathery texture, bent stems, cascade, and shadows really drew me to this subject. "Like Some Memories" 18"x12" soft pastel

Quin Sweetman: This is the updated version of my self-portrait. 

Jim Syfert: Subject was “remember”, puzzled over this for awhile, decided on a lighthouse on the Coquille River at Bandon. My family and Sandi’s family have some very pleasant memories of camping at Bullard Beach State Park. The Bandon Lighthouse is on the Park property.
The other paintings and sketch were done this ‘isolation’ week. Take care and stay healthy.

Harley Talkington: My oil pastel work over the last 2 years. Although oil pastels are more challenging for details, they have the capacity to blend and radiate. They take me back to my Crayola 64 days when art was what you did when you were bored as a kid. “Hmm. Let’s use vermillion or periwinkle!” I always loved the sounder of “umber.” Need to revisit the place these sticks take me.

Loretta Unger: I painted this painting years ago in Geneva with my instructor Robert Tovey. It was my final painting painted there. It was a sad time for me to leave Switzerland. Later he wrote me a letter and I’ll always have that. 

Wagoner: This is not new but the instant I read the theme "Remember", this oldie but goodie popped in my head. I intentionally chose to use a limited pallet because it so appropriately captured the scene. Acrylic painting. I had been planning on returning to Fort Vancouver to paint/sketch as soon as it warmed up a bit but the way things are going that's not going to be an option for some time. "Smithy's Tools"

Tim Young: This Wheelbarrow comes with some history. It was originally built to haul Dead Fred, our dead pirate, for the Kings Navy. A Revolutionary War reenactment group. We would put him in the wheelbarrow and walk him in parades. After I quit to pursue art, I rebuilt the wheelbarrow  to be a covered wheelbarrow for our cats. Cindy sews a new cover for it every year. 
The landscape is from a photo of my Sunday walk. 



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 Our next Thursday Online Gallery is Thursday, April 23 (by Noon). The optional prompt is HOME. 
The prompts remain optional, we continue to be interested in your current projects, whatever they might be (“Artists Choice” :)

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