Online Gallery notes, July 16, 2020

Cathleen Rehfeld:  Pink Lavender 10”x10” oil on cradled wood panel. View from Lavender Valley in Hood River OR. / "Light On The Deschutes River Canyon" 2x4 in Gouache painted on illustration board. Exploring The Deschutes River in Oregon / 2”x4” Oregon Rocks! Gouache on illustration board.

Regina Atwood: 9x12 The Way Home -A little Plein air painting that I finished up in my studio. It was so peaceful on this property. 🎨🖼

Jeanie Bates:  My most recent painting.

Jane Benight: On the way to Silver Falls- watercolor

Celeste Bergin: I love painting outside and doing my best to find a decent composition. (One of my favorites is this-mud-in-my backyard painting that was painted during the rain).  / I recently painted a self-portrait. It came out a little younger than I am, but I liked the effect I got from painting over an old painting, so I let it stand where it is.

Mark Ivan Cole: "Woods Study" Various soft and hard pastels on Canson, 8x10"Based on my own reference photo For me, painting the scene is the next best thing to being there.

Kathy D Allegri: "Summer of '74," watercolor of my two eldest children and me back then. I started first washes about a decade ago, and put it away-somewhere. I found it yesterday while searching for more paper and finished it this morning. I know, not a "pure" alla prima, but 95% completed in a couple of hours. / 9 July 2020: Summer Desert View. I used watercolor brush pens and watercolor in my Hahnemühle Cappuccino Sketchbook. Pardon me for not painting this outside, but 108ºF's a wee-bit warm. I see this view from my studio.

Tom Daniels: The garden at Fort Vancouver. / Another view of the dike at Washougal. / In the park

Leslie Elder: Portrait for commission--16x20 oil painted from life, finished from photo in studio.

Geri Graley: Hi Everyone! I completed my project of doing six 8x8” portraits, and I had fun making a collage “composition” out of them, using the Layout App.

Cynthia Jeffrey: oil on board, my garden. Second try.

Blaine Johnson:  Paintings 4 Thursday

Tara Kemp: From a plein air session at Fern Ridge Reservoir, Veneta, Oregon. "Perkins Peninsula Perspective", 9 x 12", oil on canvas.

Joanne Kollman: Here are some recently “revamped” outdoor paintings. I live with my plein air painting for a while and then I might go back into them to make adjustments and improvements in color and values. 

Bhavani Krishnan:  I started this on location at Luschers Farm. But I was stumped after the block-in. Unsure about how to proceed, I packed up. Once home, I revisited with fresh eyes and saw the S-composition in the painting. That helped me finish it.

Susan Kuznitsky: ‘Bali’ - pastel 16 x 20from a photo reference I took years ago on a trip to this magical place.

Don Lonsbrough: My Alla Prima sunflower still life

Ken Mazzochi: "Foot Bridge" is a 20x24 oil on canvas. A familiar composition of foliage, rock, wood and color value reflection.

Mary McNeil: 5x7 watercolor combining trees from different photos

Peggie Moje: Hollyhocks at Luscher Farm - Oil - 16x12"

Mike Porter: A bit of art therapy. One white rose with two pinks. Realized a white Rose isn’t white! / A good day to cut roses before the deer chow down! So, I painted this arrangement. Tried to stay loose, but… / Out painting today with Jim Syfert at George Rogers Park. A beautiful day that also brought out the families with their own definition of social distancing. This is a view up the creek that comes in from the lake.

Eunice Sause:  A seascape from my archives

Raphael Schnepf:  Across the lago 3.5" x 7" gouache on illustration board scrap. 1.5-hour study.

George Schweser: The drawing on the right was done at the June 25 paint out at Peninsula Park. The painting was done yesterday from the drawing and memory. The drawing is 7 x 10, the painting is 11 x 14 on hot press illustration board using gouache . Compositionally, I liked the directionality of the staircase and tree mass vs linear stairs.

Karen Shawcross: Here's my painting for this week. Soft pastel,  Title "Boulangerie.

Dianna Shyne: I did an abstracted 24x18 plein air acrylic in my garden today.

Donna Sires: Not sure if I'm quite done with this yet, and still thinking of a name. 24" x 12", pastel.

Nancy Smith-Klos: Wolf Moon and Alpenglow 12 x 12" oil on canvas currently on display at the Pittock Mansion show (now open) "Mt. Hood Perspectives"
through Nov. 2020 / Out and about today! What a pleasure to paint in Peninsula Park Rose Garden I revisited a painting from last year Oil on 11 x 14" canvas

Donna Stevens: Composition: The position and size of the frog sculpture are not to scale with the birdbath. Also, the sunlight passes through rhodies and arbor vidae before reaching this part of my yard. The sunlight zooooooms across the ferns and different parts of the birdbath ... don't look at your painting or you'll miss the view! Therefore, choices were made when it came to the play of light and shadow. This piece required about 4 sessions (plein air).

Jim Syfert: Weekly theme ‘composition’. Fun working on so many things. Take care! /  Modeled after some of Matisse’s still life’s, not as good as his, but was fun painting and really like his use of color. / 9x12 oil ‘Goat barn’. A little fun with minimal color. From a photo I took at Grace’s farm on Cooper Mt./ Oil 9x12. From a photo I took last fall out at the Tualatin Wildlife Refuge. Tried to not overdo details, as the photo is very detailed.  Have a good weekend and stay safe and healthy!

Harley Talkington: #paint4thursday with the theme of “Composition” in Monsoon Rising. “Sweep” is at the heart of this pastel composition, in the roll of the clouds, and the swirl of coconut fronds reaching out towards the water. The sandbar’s color in the nucleus of this painting, accentuates the sweep of water, as it reaches and recedes. The white sand’s quiet arc mirrors the ocean waves as both trail back and seem to meet at the storm. This composition was a gift of this spot in Goa, India.

Joanne Thorpe: In this composition my goal was to get to the top left peak. I balanced the heavy weight on the left with the tree on the right. Still experimenting with oil soluble oils and I think they are going to work out just fine. 18 x 14.

Loretta Unger: 16"x20" oil on canvas. Thanks to Andrey Lyssenko for permitting me to use his photo as an inspiration for this painting.

Elo Wobig: 24x30 oil Commissioned work from photo supplied by client

Tim Young: 11x14 oil on canvas panel I needed a warm up painting. It’s been awhile

Yong Hong Zhong:  Continuing my exploration with no under drawing, this method is very difficult for portraits. / A sunset view in British Columbia Canada /
I was touching up this sketch at my studio last night but I swear I can still feel the heat of the fire and the smell of the smoky air.

Pamela Orazio-Mlady: I’m not buying cards in the stores, so I have been doing homemade cards for my grandchildren’s birthdays / Green Mansions 8" x 5.5" gouache on illustration board.


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 Our next Thursday Online Gallery is Thursday, July 23 The optional prompt is ‘’ON MY MIND” The prompts remain optional, we continue to be interested in your current projects, whatever they might be  :)

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Next Zoom meeting is Thursday August 6 10am

The TOPIC is Color Mixing (Tell us something about your color mixing “philosophy”)
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Send your photo to allaprimaportland@gmail.com with “ZOOM AUGUST 6” in the subject line.
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