Elo: 1. The Mount Hood painting I did a couple weeks ago with Nancy, Dotty, and Greg on top of council crest. I began this painting en plein air during the Corona virus outbreak. Though some changes were made towards social distancing, we had not yet begun the sheltering within policies. Still there was much anxiety over the unknowns. 2. Painting with the hum of the brook for several hours, it was an welcome relief from the news, noise, and worries over our current situation. Named, "Besides Quiet Waters" not only places the viewer where I painted, but also references the words Psalm 23, especially vs 1-3 (see image below) 3. Finally, these perennial Hellebore didn’t get planted til I painted them from life.
Celeste: I’m on a facebook page called Self Portrait Sundays so, last Sunday I drew this self portrait in charcoal on Red rosin paper. During the week Dave and I went to Winco (the grocery store). I sketched the line ahead of us (thanks for the idea, Elo). I have a goal to paint some “narrative” style paintings, so I painted Dave doing yard work (but added an imagined background. (It’s a work in progress). I liked how my two images echo the 1930's, soup kitchens and the depression --(but I am hoping against hope that we are not really headed there) !
Robin: Last week I dusted off my oils and easel and painted at the Molalla River St Pk. Lots of friendly puppy-dogs there wondering if that linseed oil aroma was also tasty.
Annie: Here's 3 portraits I've been working on from little photos from the paper or on line. I think the mood of their politics came through! They are the author of "Franchise" and the former president of Bolivia. I know there's no excuse not to be painting outside, but I keep getting trapped by the blackberry bushes that need trimming Thank you Celeste for making 4 Thursday possible! It's wonderful to see everyone's work!
Stephanie: Ducks at Laurelhurst Park, from a photo taken in Autumn. I've been wanting to go lately, do I risk it with social distancing? 8" x 8",
Kimberly: My first home grown daffodils Oil on board 8 x 6” Artist in Residence at Oakgrove
Hilarie: I am still around and pleased about keeping in touch with my artist community...I've been a meeting stalker because of traffic, but happy to share. This was a commission started alla prima finished in the studio by photo
Tom D: Field with budding tree
Geri: Hi everyone! Here’s my painting for March 26th, an abstract called “Nuclear Polliwogs”, acrylic & colored pencil on watercolor paper, 5x5”
Paula: 3 Value Studies from life in my back yard.
Dotty: This was started as a plein air at Council Crest Park, but in spite of the sun, it was windy and freezing cold, so I worked on it in the studio.
Tom Kane: Realism is painting what you see. Abstract is interpreting what you see. My approach is to bridge the two ....you know it’s a tree.
Thomas Kitts: "Lu Lu Bell with Earrings" Compressed charcoal on Arches paper (FWIW, I have drawn her head at life size.)
Joanne K: #1 4x6” Palette: titanium white, Indian yellow, quinacrinone red, transparent red oxide and ultramarine blue. #2 Same limited palette with a couple of odd n’ ends guest colors at the end. 4x6” oil on toned centurion linen oil primed panel. #3&4: I had a dream last night where I went through all of this commotion and chaos to get to a location and then I saw how beautiful it was there, I turn back to get my paints and I do not have them. so here’s my attempt at remembering the color palette that I so painstakingly tried to memorize in the dream. This casein in a sketchbook. I have not had a chance to acquaint myself with them much.
Bhavani: I thought it only apropos to share digital paintings for a digital show 😉 Painted with Procreate on IPad Pro and yes I am a little obsessed with the moon.
Robin Laughlin: Here’s my Thursday painting for this week. This one is oil and cold wax, 12 x 12. I keep trying to do abstracts and they keep morphing into landscapes. Oops! This one started as a memory and turned out reflective of my current mood.
Pam Orazio-Mlady: Just got this finished for a client: pen and ink 9x13
David McBride: Howdy Portland Alla Prima friends, Hope you are all well and surviving this medical (big) bump in the road. Hunkered in my Fort Collins studio and all is well Sharon and I send a big hug
Kristie: Birds nest-acrylic-currently in the OSA Gallery Show
Wendy: “Home Alone”
Lisa: This is just a fun thing I started at the Villa. Practice painting people in landscape.
Mike: Star Magnolia -so beautiful right now as they are blooming all over my neighborhood.
Donna: I’m almost finished with this 18x24 acrylic on board. Used only Catalyst wedges and blades. Felt playful and free. I really enjoyed seeing the responses to last Thursday's posts and look forward to what this week brings. Stay healthy everyone. Kudos to Celeste for coming up with a way for the weekly art sharing to continue.
Raphael: Rogers Bridge 8" x 10" gouache on illustration board.
Judy: I’ve been working my way through Edgar Payne’s book on composition, so this poor thing has been overworked a bit because it has become a sampler for some of the concepts! LOL. Thanks, Bhavani for suggesting branches within the tree.
Dianna: Last Storm 24" x 18" Just finished (I think)
Nancy: Plum Branch 16 x 20 acrylic Plein air painting from yesterday. Painted with a palette knife and 2" paint scraper. I love being outside under my blossoming trees. There are even a few open apple blossoms today.
Nancy: Plum Branch 16 x 20 acrylic Plein air painting from yesterday. Painted with a palette knife and 2" paint scraper. I love being outside under my blossoming trees. There are even a few open apple blossoms today.
Sarah: I think I'm calling it finished. What do you guys think? Also, I haven't had the chance to say this lately, but THANK YOU ALL for the wonderful advice. Yong Hong Zhong thank you for helping me prioritize that advice, then it all fell into place. You guys are all wonderful.
Jim: Stay at home day, basically like every day for the last couple of weeks, did not even walk to the neighborhood park. Needed some fresh air so set up the paint stuff in the back yard. Did not like any of the boring backyard views so decided to paint from a photo I took on Sauvie Island last September of the apple orchard. 8x8 oil. Very relaxing and refreshing.
Stay safe and healthy out there folks!
Harley: And now for something completely different: Normally I paint landscapes and birds in pastel. Thanks to Sequoia Gallery in Hillsboro, though, I started using oils. Last year I participated in their Hip2B Square event. The requirement was that the painting/or sculpture must be on a square foot panel purchased at the gallery. I did this event along with my son. The new twist for me, though, was that the art could not be framed in glass. That ruled out any kind of pastel. And so for this, I gessoed up my square foot canvas panel, bought some oil sticks and started playing around. Right away it became clear to me that oil sticks were not pastel sticks. They are much fatter and unwieldy. I shifted to abstract before I wasted a bunch of oil sticks. When this year’s Hip2B Square rolled around, I decided to shift from oil sticks to water soluble oils. For the event I painted this as yet untitled piece along the Oregon Coast, which is kind of an abstract landscape. Since the event has been postponed until life kind of returns to normal, I may do some more with it. Abstract is sooooo different a process! Colors and shapes grow and suggest where to go next. Then I need to know when to stop!
Joanne T: Hi all. Hope everyone is healthy. All good here. knock on wood. I have a few things in the works that I am more excited about than these two. I liked the moodiness of the barn painting but it needs work. The second painting is from a Tim Young photo. It had a dock and well, then it didn’t. Lol. It’s better without but still missing something. Maybe a fisherman on the shore??
Loretta: Hello everyone..this is 30"x30" Oil on canvas. "Moonlit Faerie Waterlilies" from my archives. The other painting is also from my archives, but it fits the social distancing theme! I haven’t painted for awhile, but I hope to get back to it very soon.
Bonny:A commission I finished this morning. Some of these buildings out here are hard to glam up because there's next to nothing to work with. As requested I added leaves to the trees and bushes (too early for leaves yet). It's a retirement gift to someone who worked there for 30 years. Watercolor on hot press cotton paper.
Tim: Eliot the cat, Powell Butte and "A very fine house"
Yong: I am preparing drawing lessons for my kids during their extended spring break and social distancing as well. This is My neighbor's forsythia and Magnolias are in full bloom around my neighborhood.
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