Ucluelet Rocks - NFS

"Ucluelet Rocks", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board, 2014

I spent the second week of August with my painting buddies on the wild coast of Vancouver Island in a small town called Ucluelet.  The first day we painted just outside of town by the lighthouse.  Who can resist the waves of the Pacific crashing on the rocks?

Cape Disappointment - NFS

Cape Disappointment", Oil on Museum Board, 10 x 12 In, 2013

Dear Friends,

I've worked out how to deal with the new changes to blogspot and solved the problem of not having all that I wanted in either the old or new formats by utilizing both formats! Now you can click on the "View All Images" button and you simply go to my second site, created in the new blogspot format. Its a bit more work because I have to post to both sites, but better than creating an entirely new site with another provider. That was looking like a nightmare!

Anyway--this is a photo of one of the paintings I did with the Plein Air Washington group in the State Park down by the mouth of the Columbia River in September 2013. It was a gorgeous, stormy day!

NFS

Margaret - NFS

"Margaret", Oil on Museum Board, 11 x 14 In, 2005

Dear Friends--

I have not been painting much or posting because of some personal issues, but I hope to get back to a little more of what I love to do in the New Year!

Meanwhile, Google Blogspot has changed their format, and from my current blog, the "View all Images" function no longer works. The Blogspot people apparently arbitrarily and without notification deleted this function from the traditional blog template. When I went back to my old template after trying out the new one, even my old template was changed and some features are missing.

Since I don't like the new blogspot template and I no longer trust them, I may move to a different provider--and that will be a lot of work. But figuring this out is one mission for the New Year. If any of you are having similar problems with blogspot and have figured anything out--please let me know! Or if you use a different provider that you like, I'd also like to hear about that.

I wish you all the best for the New Year!

Kathryn

Columbia River - Cape Disappointment - NFS

"Columbia River - Cape Disappointment", Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24, NFS

First place winner of the Washington State Parks exhibition at The American Art Company Gallery in Tacoma, Washington. It was a wonderful painting season with the Plein Air Painters of Washington, painting the State Parks. I have belonged to this group for several years, painting with them in such places as Glacier National Park, Canyon de Chelly, and the Grand Canyon as well as our local and beautiful Washington State. They are good painters and I thank them all for their friendship to me. There is nothing like a "painting buddy." Thank you to all of you.

Grand Canyon Sketch 9

Grand Canyon Sketch 9, 6 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This is another of my paintings from my trip down the Colorado in the Grand Canyon in May, 2013. I have not done much studio painting in the last few months, but the trips in the open air are still very important to me--they definitely take me outside of myself and as you can see, I'm painting with more abandon than ever.

Purchase this unframed painting.
Contact me if you would like to purchase a plein air frame.

Grand Canyon Sketch 3 - SOLD

"Grand Canyon Sketch 3", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
We painted early morning and late afternoon. Deep in the Canyon the sun goes down quickly. All these paintings were fast and loose with the brush and I felt a wonderful sense of both focus and freedom painting them.

Grand Canyon Sketch 6 - SOLD

"Grand Canyon Sketch 6", 9 x 9 In, Oil on Museum Board
This was the last painting I did on the trip, as the sun was going down behind the walls of the canyon and most everybody was partying down by the river. I wanted to do this last painting but I also wanted to hang out with the group, so this was a quick painting--maybe 30 minutes. Its hard to describe what its like being in the canyon on the river--it is a world apart. One of my favorite things is that because the canyon is in an uplift zone, the rock in the Inner Gorge is vischu schist. Here is a photo I found on the web of the vishnu schist. I've got some of my own photos--just haven't managed to go through them yet.

Here's a close up photo of the schist with pink granite.

Grand Canyon Sketch 5

"Grand Canyon Sketch 5", 8 x 10 In, Oil on Museum Board
This was a second painting one morning before our departure on the river, so not much time--loose and abstract.

Purchase this unframed painting.
Contact me if you would like to purchase a plein air frame.