$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.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Estuary 1, 8×8 oil on claybord $64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Estuary 2, 8×8 oil on claybord  SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Estuary 3, 8×8 oil on claybord I’m traveling at the coast this weekend and am having trouble uploading with my Verizen Palm Pixi hotspot. So [...]

$75 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willametter River 16, 11×8.5 watercolor It was a glorious day in the park this morning. The farmer’s market has grown and so have the crowds. I tried some Tayberries, which are like long, large raspberries. Their taste was like another flavor I’ve experienced but could not remember what. I’ll [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Fog 2, 8×8 oil on claybord This tree is amazing but very hard to paint. After 2 days of messing with it, I finally have a style that works. Here is a companion piece.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 25, 8×8 oil on claybord One of my favorite scenes while driving includes blooming sage, pinyon trees, dried grasses, dark canyons, distant mountains, and high clouds in the sky. To keep myself awake on long road trips, I’ll pretend I’m painting the scenes. It’s like practicing without [...]