SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Canyon Dreams 5 Road, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard When you travel in the red rock country, the roads are often red, too. It’s a nice change from gray. Color is very important to me when I’m driving on long stretches of nothing. It keeps me awake!

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 4 Sage, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard I find driving at dusk very difficult in the city…too many lights assaulting the eyes. But in the desert, the quiet color palette of the cacti, sage, and red rock often seem more brilliant. Faraway canyons and hills turn purple, [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Canyon Dreams 3 River, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard I’m really enjoying this series. The transparency is fun to work with; every brushstroke is visible. I’m trying to keep the palette as bright as possible.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Canyon Dreams 2 Sunset, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard I’m dreaming of driving the dry country again. It is a bit wet in Western Oregon right now but I make it tolerable by painting warmth and awe, from memory. My goal with these dream paintings is to keep the [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Canyon Dreams 1, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard I enjoy the essence of watercolor paintings…the transparency creates such a etherial mood. I’ve achieved the same essence with this oil painting on a clay panel. I painted this canyon from memories of driving through Eastern Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, and [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, PA Snowfall 2, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard This piece is a mate to the previous PA Snowfall, below. The mood has changed, suggesting later in the day before snow falls again.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, PA Snowfall 1, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard In April 2006, we had just left NYC’s spring-time glory and overnighted in Pennsylvania. We woke up to snow! The kids in the neighborhood enjoyed it, of course. They played in the tall, dried grass, slid down the slice, and threw [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Wondering the Garden 1, 12×12 acrylic on gallery-edged canvas $75 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Wondering the Garden 2, 12×12 acrylic on gallery-edged canvas SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Wondering the Garden 3, 12×12 acrylic on gallery-edged canvas $75 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Wondering the Garden 4, [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Columbia Gorge Beacon Rock 1, 8×8 oil on clayboard I’ll be showing my Columbia River daily paintings at one of three locations in Feb. Stay tuned for an update. This image was painted from a photo taken at the Women’s Forum Park on the Columbia River, Oregon side. It [...]

Natalya’s Studio, home of custom knit, crochet & felt designs, has created an Etsy Treasury which includes this purple painting of my daughter, the songwriter. Visit Etsy for a wonderful shopping experience.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Larch Mt View 1, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard Two summers ago we drove up Larch Mountain on the Historic Columbia River Gorge Highway, hoping for a spectacular view of all the adjacent mountains. We did have a wonderful view, but not of mountains. The haze was rolling in [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Molalla River Shore 1, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard In the middle of winter, the colors of a river take on a dusky, moody look. This painting references the dark mauves and blue/phalo hues that reflect the various sky and cliff colors around the water. I’ve added a touch [...]

NFS © Pam Van Londen 2010.  Oil on 8×8 archival clay panelframed in ready-to-hang black laquered wood. Meet Kenneth, a new baby of my cousin Naomi and her hubby Kenny Sr. It is a great joy to paint a new being. When the face and its personality finally emerge with the last brushstroke, something special [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Navarre Beach 5, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard For those of you that like to participate in painting challenges, I invite you to participate in one I’ve set up at PaintingChallenge.Wordpress.Com. I’ll post reference photos for each month and you can “comment” by adding a photo and citation for [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Columbia Gorge Slough 3, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard To help develop a style I could work with exclusively, I’m experimenting with brushes and color schemes. This painting was painted with the funny brush, like the first one. I don’t feel it is as powerful as the brissle-brush version [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Columbia Gorge Slough 2, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard When you hike up to a high point, looking down at the world puts life a new perspective. It is almost other-worldly. This is a slough from viewed from, I think, the Crown Point Vista House on the Historic Columbia [...]

Thank you to Kelly J Callahan for highlighting my work in her Obsessions of a Renaissance Women site. Crows at the Beach is listed among a few other figure/animal original paintings for sale for under $100.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Columbia Gorge Slough, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard I’m working with the Funny brush again today. I like the layered chaotic brush strokes it makes. If you  know the name of this slough, please write me a comment. I’ve lost track of where I was when I took the [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Aspen and Tulip, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard This quaint scene was found on one of my walks to work last year. The simplicity of it allowed me to fill most of the space with a fun layer of colors, applied with a rubber funny brush.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Portrait of an Artist 2009, 8x8x1 on oil on claybord 2009′s annual portrait challenge for the Different Strokes from Different Folks project is done and being highlighted on Karin Jurick’s YouTube channel. The portrait I painted is of Violetta Smith from Canada.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Crow Speaks Her Mind, 8x8x1 on oil on clayboard After a dizzying day of being stepped on, I decided to step back (take that two ways). The thing to do with a difficult day is to paint and spread some joy. Works every time. This crow is painted in [...]

$320 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Junior Stars of Basketball 3: 45 checks 33, 16x20x1 on acrylic on gallery-edged canvas Whoo hoo! It’s basketball season. This one of #45 is third in a series. I hope to do each player on the Future Spartans team before the end of the season. See last season’s paintings: [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Johnson Creek 5, 8x8x1 on acrylic on clayboard Awhile back I painted three conceptual pieces with short square brushstrokes. It had no subject. For this painting, I used the same technique but with a subject (Johnson Creek again).

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Johnson Creek 4, 8x8x1 on acrylic on clayboard We spent Thanksgiving in Portland and though we did not get out much, we did think of our favorite parks. Johnson Creek Park is just a block from family, so we spend a lot of time there. This bend in the [...]

Please join me at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis on Circle Blvd in Corvallis for the annual holiday bazaar. We’ll be there from 9:00am to 3:00pm. See medium and larged-sized original paintings at the Philomath Library during the month of December. If you can’t make it to the exhibits, you can purchase in person or [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Biosphere Garden 1, 8x8x1 on acrylic on gessobord When traveling in 2005/06, we stopped at the Biosphere 2 park to see how it might be possible to live in a bubble. The grounds were spectacularly designed with a minimalist and green approach. I took a few hundred photos, of [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2009, Struggle 1, 8x8x1 on acrylic on canvasboard $64 © Pam Van Londen 2009, Struggle 2, 8x8x1 on acrylic on canvasboard These paintings are about the struggle to maintain a balance. How does one be economical yet spontaneous, light-hearted but firm, decisive but flexible, or imaginative but contained? The paints [...]

© Pam Van Londen 2009, Joy 3, 8x8x1 on acrylic on canvasboard Due to some technical glitches, I am repainting this series. I’m experimenting with thick, squirted paint and a funny brush made of several rubber tips. Check back next week for the final work. The paints are quite thick and take a long time [...]