$64 © Pam Van Londen 2012, Turner 4, 8×8 Oil on Clayboard The view from the farm in Turner is always spectacular! I’ve painted this composition before but I like this version better.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Frazier Wetland 2, 8×8 Oil on Clayboard Last weekend my daughter and I were enjoying the wetlands to paint and do homework. It was peaceful, but hard to paint due to having 2 dogs who want to greet all the passing dogs. It was a very green day but [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 29, 8×8 oil on claybord $35 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 30, 7×5 oil on claybord I enjoyed painting downtown on the waterfront today. Everyone was in a jolly mood while they biked/walked by with their dogs and kids. Since it was warm outside, I [...]

My latest painting, Party Colors, has been selected as a finalist in the Corvallis Fall Festival Poster contest! If you are so inclined, please VOTE for my painting to become the 2012 poster art. Voting ends May 2 or 3rd. Thank you!

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, 18th Street Snow 3, 8×8 acrylic on Claybord $64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Snowy Path, 8×8 acrylic on Claybord The snow day afforded me the opportunity to lay low and work at the easel today. I enjoyed working with iridescent acrylics on the Ampersand Claybord panels.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Morning 11, 8×8 Acrylic on Claybord Lately, I prefer acrylic over oil paint on the Claybord surface. With it, I can still get a transparent underpainting that shows a lot of visual texture then pile up thicker paint on top to create a physical texture.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Morning 10, 8×8 Acrylic on Clayboard The chilly morning with sunlight burning through the fog inspires me to paint! It is warm and cozy in the studio but I will have to venture out in the freeze to get the day’s list of chores taken care of.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 28, 12×12 acrylic on gallery-edged canvas This painting was commissioned for a couple that floated the Willamette River years ago. The technique here uses an alizarin crimson underpainting to keep the palette bright. Once dry, I layered thick and thin swirling and flat layers to build depth. [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 31, 8×8 oil on claybord This painting is very abstracted and was painted without a reference…I just like to feel the brush strokes and don’t think too much about where they go.

$56 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Slot Canyon 1, 8×10 oil on canvas panel $76 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Slot Canyon 2, 9×12 oil on canvas panel $56 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Slot Canyon 3, 8×10 oil on canvas panel What it is about slot canyons that create excite- ment? Perhaps it is [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 29, 8×8 oil on claybord SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 30, 8×8 oil on claybord I love the colors and shapes of canyons, so continue the Canyon Dreams series with two moer!

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Park Trees 5, 8×8 oil on claybord SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Park Trees 6, 8×8 oil on claybord Trees, trees, beautiful trees! Every corner of Corvallis is filled with interesting trees and I want to paint them all.

The Obama for America Artworks program is hosting a poster contest around the theme of getting Americans back to work. I’ve spent this sunny day making a poster submission instead of doing chores. It includes 51 of my paintings and the message is about supporting local economies. Sales of many of these daily paintings paid [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Clouds 5, 8×8 oil on claybord SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Storm 5, 8×8 oil on claybord Once the rain stopped, the sky at Thursday night’s CHS/CVHS varsity girls soccer game was spectacular and inspired these paintings.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Park Trees 4, 8×8 oil on claybord The OSU campus has many interesting trees to paint from. Everyone morning when I walk to the office, I see all manner of shapes, sizes, and colors to study. You might notice I am building a series of oil paintings that use [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Fall Maple Leaves 1, 8×8 oil on claybord It has cooled down here and is raining again so I could buckle down and paint! Very few leaves have turned bright colors yet but that time is not far off. I can smell it in the air. If you have [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Greg Sarris’ Garden 7, 8×8 oil on claybord Greg Sarris’ garden provides so many lovely painting scenes; I have yet to finish them all. Can you smell the lavender and hear the grass rustling while the bees buzz around?

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Arctic 2, 8×8 Acrylic on Clayboard $64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Arctic 3, 8×8 Acrylic on Clayboard I’ve switched to acrylic paint lately to see how it works on Ampersand Claybord panels. I like its staining properties and the textures created when I remove partly-dried paint. In addition, [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Arctic 1, 8×8 Acrylic on Clayboard I have been experimenting with iridescent acrylic paint on Claybord lately and like the watercolor effects on the clay for the underpainting and thicker shiny pearls on the top layers.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Beverly Beach 5, 8×8 Acrylic on Clayboard We visit Beverly Beach and Otter Rock a few times per year to rejuvenate. The sunset was spectacular on July 4 this year.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Frazier Wetland 1, 8×8 Acrylic on Clayboard Corvallis is situated in such a lovely spot on the map. We have ocean 1 hr away, refuges, forest, valleys, mountains, etc. One of my favorite spots is Jackson-Frazier Wetland. Here is my first painting from one of the viewpoints.

$108 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Klamath River 4, 12×9 acrylic on claybord In the early morning beside the Klamath River, you might spot a bear across the way, or a blanket of flog seeping in and out with the tide, or a buzzard looking for fishing scraps.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 22, 8×8 oil on claybord While the kids are practicing soccer, I was practicing painting. We are lucky to have such a great sports park next to our Willamette River. This painting was painted en plain air and goes with these other paintings: Avery Park Trees, Willamette [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Greg Sarris’ Garden 1, 8×8 oil on claybord $64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Greg Sarris’ Garden 2, 8×8 oil on claybord Sold © Pam Van Londen 2010, Greg Sarris’ Garden 3, 8×8 oil on claybord I’m spending a day at Greg Sarris’ home in Sonoma County, California, with [...]

Is this a pine or redwood? I forgot to figure it out before I left the area. This is just one of many quick watercolor sketches done plein air in NE California in the Sonora area.

$100 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 21, 12×12 watercolor $100 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Clouds2, 12×12 watercolor

$100 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Park Trees 2, 12×12 watercolor $100 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Park Trees 3, 12×12 watercolor

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Estuary 4, 8×8 oil on claybord The foxgloves and Queen Anne’s Lace were blooming in the estuary at Newport last week.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Old Mill Challenge, 8×8 oil on claybord The Daily Paintworks Weekly Challenge from a few weeks ago is to paint this old mill on a river.

$100 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 19, 12×12 watercolor $75 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 17, 9×12 watercolor Here are a couple of watercolors I created last night. I have two more but these are the best. I was too pooped to paint at the river so I painted from memory.