Jim Syfert: a. At Grice’s Century Farm...A great time and the sun came out mid-painting so I made some quick changes to reflect the light and shadows. Loved painting this old walnut drying shed. b and c: Practice, practice, practice. 12x16 and an 8x10 value, d-h: Practice is what I primarily do. Working on preliminary sketches, blocking in and trying to keep the value structure when color is introduced. Have a safe, healthy and happy 4th of July!
Celeste Bergin: a. just a little practice with Rembrandt-y lighting (oil on 12x9 canvas panel) b. floral…this is unfinished, but I think I may like it this way (oil 12x16) c,d and e: sketching practice :)
Celeste Bergin: a. just a little practice with Rembrandt-y lighting (oil on 12x9 canvas panel) b. floral…this is unfinished, but I think I may like it this way (oil 12x16) c,d and e: sketching practice :)
Bets Cole: #painting4thursday
Kathy D Allegri: a. “Above the Crowd, Indian Festival” Watercolor 28 June 2020 10.25”x14.25” b. This “Western-Banded Gecko” eats beetles and spiders in our garage. Watercolor c. Summer Night Market Watercolor 15.5”x20” d. Wy'East Countryside 14" x 19" Watercolor
Tom Daniels: Out at Peninsula Park today.
Tom Daniels: Out at Peninsula Park today.
Karen Doyle: A recent painting from our trip to Bend #painting4thursday
Pam Eckert: Crystal Springs Rhododendrum Gardens 9x12 panel
Elizabeth Ereckson: My little painting from this afternoon at Peninsula Park with Brooks Hickerson and others
Renita Gerard My latest painting, just finished
Geri Graley: a & b “Practicing heads” from anchors & pundits on TV! Ink in sketchbook. c. aaaaand MORE “practicing heads” of anchors & pundits from 2017!
Brooks Hickerson: acrylic "Peninsula Park Roses"
Blaine Johnson: #painting4thursday
Tara Kemp: I arrived early at this scenic view to capture the morning light as it rose over the distant hills and valley below. "Looking Eastward", 12 x 9", oil on canvas
Joanne Kollman: a. Painting at Sauvie Island. b. A painting from my archives c. Painting to show students how to think through lighting and composition ideas. I'm asking students to always do thumbnails to have good ideas in place (no matter what the subject).
Bhavani Krishnan: #painting4thursday
Susan Kuznitsky: 'Farm Life' pastel 6 x 12. This was a demo from my 3 day zoom workshop last weekend. It was so fun!
Diane M. Bestor: I’m working to “make friends” with alla prima painting outdoors. Lisa and I painted in her yard last week. I have painted landscapes when I was in college and didn’t have the internal doubts but I’ve become intimidated these past years. Time to practice, practice, practice!
Lisa Marshall: #painting4thursday Newest painting
Cheryl Mathieson: Plein air painting today in Camas, Washington looking at hills across the river East of Portland. Thankful the clouds broke and revealed beautiful blue sky. 9x12” oil
Ken Mazzochi: Artistic Practice allows me room to create personal intuitiveness with paint. "Golden Opportunity" is oil on streched canvas 20x24
Dave McBride: "6-0 Aggies", acrylic on canvas 2’x3’
Mary McNeil: Practice. Started to practice trees and switched to composition. A few issues but feels like it was a good practice.
Pamela Orazio-Mlady: a. Painting of my good friend’s granddaughter. I gave it to her for her BIG birthday. b. (From my archives) My third attempt at plein air painting at a lavender farm in Newberg. It’s a learning process.
Mike Porter: Recent painting, an iconic scene painted from our balcony at the coast
Chris Rectenwald: I painted this with the goal of using fewer, larger strokes with less detail. I held the brush by the long end. — at La Paz, B.C.S Mexico.
Eunice Sause: Painting involves a lot of practice !
Jeffrey Scherer: Pay attention to your inner voice
George Schweser: Here is my drawing from Peninsula Park. It’s the stairwell in front of the bandstand. Pencil on CansonXL Mix Media paper,7x10. I started at 10 and finished about 11:30. Sorry, if I missed seeing anyone. Great location! Drawing involves a lot of practice.
Nancy Smith-Klos: a and b: Harbor Series in progress Pen and ink with wc. 11 x 14" paper 6.27.20 c. Lavender Lemonade 9 x 12 " oil on canvas — at Mountainside Lavender.
Donna Stevens: a. Practice, graphite on 12x18 drawing paper. After this, a square format was chosen. b. This was supposed to be a "warm-up" exercise before making a smaller version. It is only powdered and vine charcoal at this point - completely changeable and erasable. However, I like how it's going, so I am currently thinking about what is the minimum work to take it to completion. c. Ink, bled with water, then ink line added. d&e: plein air practice, 9x6 pastel
Sarah Stroud: Finally got back to painting!! I finished this one last night
Ward Jene Stroud: a. painting for the zoom meeting today b. a. Miss you Gals/Guys! I am going to be teaching online soon.
Joanne Thorpe: Just finished another chicken painting. This is from Tim Young’s photo of Carol Hansen’s chickens with a random barn added.
Kathy Towne: a. This is a quick study of a vineyard in California. My goal was to stay loose and simple, but at the same time capturing the autumn feel of that day. 9x16 oil on canvas. b. Painted this for my daughter and her husband's anniversary. They took a photo of this scene on their 10th anniversary trip to NY last fall, so I painted the scene as a memory for them. 9x16" oil on canvas.
Loretta Unger: Painting is always 'practice' :)
Bonny Wagoner: Barely finished this on time for this week. Another home portrait. Watercolor on hot press cotton paper.
Elo Wobig: a. I just completed this oil study of my son. (I painted with cool colors). b. To get this very bright color, I wiped off a smear of magenta so that the transparency would allow for the light of the white gesso to come through. Mixing it with white would only create a tint of the color. 6x8 oil on panel “Purple Passion”
Tim Young: "Luci"
Vicki Zimmerman: I’m hoping that eventually practice will make perfect. In the mean time I’ve been enjoying working with pen and ink to create texture and contrast in my drawings. And I’m practicing to become comfortable with acrylic paint. :)
Yong Hong Zhong: Another demo from one of my online watercolor classes. a. I encourage everyone to start with a three value b&w layout. b and c: It's a balancing act, I put in enough to get my idea across....but I always want to stop short of "over-describing".
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Our next Thursday Online Gallery is Thursday, July 9 The optional prompt is ‘CREATIVE The prompts remain optional, we continue to be interested in your current projects, whatever they might be :)
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Thomas Kitts is offering NEW online Webinars : You can use this email (thomas@thomaskitts.com) to contact him directly, to ask a question, or to follow up for more information.
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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”)
This is a meeting that you have to plan and prepare for.
We’re asking you to email the image in advance.
Send one good brushwork example* to allaprimaportland@gmail.com with “ZOOM JULY 9” in the subject line.
*We don’t mean a close up, send the entire painting image, we’ll share the painting onscreen with the zoom share screen feature and discuss each participant’s painting. Be prepared to talk about features of your current brushwork.
Structured Zoom meetings* are now once a month (the first Thursday of every month at 10am).
The new format requires that you email one image of a painting of yours that best fits the Topic.
*We will still do “occasional social zooms” every now and then just for fun, but they’re going to be on random dates, so please
Always check facebook and the notes in each weeks blog for dates and times. If you get weekly emails from me you’ll get an invitation to each Zoom meeting.
If you don’t think you are on the list and want to be, email allaprimaportland@gmail.com
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Oregon Society of Artists (OSA)
Plein Air & Alla Prima Juror: Yer Za Vue
Reception Thursday July 2, 6pm…(masks and social distancing)
Online Gallery: https://www.osagallery.org/pleinair-allaprima-show
Online Gallery: https://www.osagallery.org/pleinair-allaprima-show
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Other opportunities at OSA: https://www.osartists.org/gallery/current-upcoming-exhibits
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Dear Alla Prima Portland,
Hello! My name is Natasha Luepke. I am the Arts Program Assistant at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg. In July, we host the Willamette Valley Lavender Festival and Paint Out. This year, the festival has been moved online.
In addition to moving the festival online, we are opening up registration for the paint out to anyone, with the theme "The Landscapes Around You." The only requirements are that artists pay the registration fee and create their painting en plein air, whether the subject be their backyard, a park, or some place else.
The submission deadline is July 11, 2020 and the exhibition will be online until August 31, 2020.
Please read the Call to Artists here: https://www.wvlavenderfestival.org/plein-air-pandemic-paint-out
We also have a Facebook group for painters: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pppout/
If you have any questions, please let me know!
Sincerely, Natasha
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Natasha Luepke
Arts Program Assistant (She/Her)
Chehalem Cultural Center
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