$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Black Eyed Susans 1, 8×8 oil on clayboard Corvallis is alive with flowers right now. I can’t walk 5 feet without stopping to take a picture. These flowers are from last summer’s neighborhood garden in our cul de sac.

Five Etsy sellers have listed five of my works in Etsy Treasuries this month. These treasuries show up on the Etsy home page and help bring traffic to my shop. This post started out with 2 and now lists 5 just for the month of May. I’m thrilled and honored. Thank you to these wonderful [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, California Poppies 1, 8×8 oil on clayboard This one is from another in a series of homogenous compositions of flowers. These three make a nice set. SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Lavender in Full Bloom, 8×8 oil on claybord $64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Under the Vines, [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Grand Canyon 4, 8×8 oil on clayboard Love this big hole in the ground. Hope to paint more of it over the next 50 years.

$35 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Walk Around Campus 2, 5×7 oil on clayboard Spring in Oregon means lots of flowers. These bluebells and daffodils can be found a block off the OSU campus.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Ke Krci Branicka Prague, 8×8 oil on clayboard This month’s Virtual Paintout is Czech Republic. This scene was shot by Google in Prague. Perhaps someday I’ll get to travel there in person.

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 9, 8×8 oil on clayboard I just hate wasting paint, so I keep painting until the palette is clean. This Willamette River scene was the result of yesterday and today’s palette cleaning.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Elmira Rain 1, 8×8 oil on clayboard SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Mary’s Peak 7, 8×8 oil on clayboard Highway 99 in Oregon is my favorite. Every turn brings a new spectacular view of coastal and Cascade mountains, quaint valley farm scenes, and a light show of clouds. [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Portland Rose Festival Float, 8×8 oil on clayboard Years ago I photographed some water floats waiting for a Portland Rose Festival race. I’m finally getting around to working on some paintings from the references. This is a close up of a larger photo offered in the May 2010 Monthly [...]

$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Mary’s Peak 6, 8×8 oil on clayboard This quick sketch of Mary’s Peak outside Corvallis and Philomath uses exaggerated color and the same transparent oil on Claybord technique I’ve been using lately.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 20, 8×8 oil on clayboard I started this painting before last weekend’s Art Walk, worked on it while I had an audience milling around, then finished it today. The layered colors are mostly transparent, so there is an etherial feel to the image. This item is featured [...]

$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Independence Park 2, 8×8 oil on clayboard

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Turner Valley Farm 3, 8×8 oil on clayboard Dana Marie Art Gallery Downtown is hosting art-stops to celebrate OSU Moms Weekend With an Art Walk & Raffle Friday April 30th, 2010 from 1pm to 6pm. Stop in at each participating art-stop and see artists-in-action, a variety of exhibits on [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Arizona Highway 1, 8×8 oil on clayboard SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Arizona Highway 2, 8×8 oil on clayboard I’ve been staring at the reference photo for these two images for 4 years! I love the composition and loneliness of the photo. The mood is different when painted. [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Campus Garden 2, 8×8 oil on clayboard My favorite garden on the way to work is behind the Cafe Yumm. The hedges are trimmed regularly so they are round and the aspens are lined up in a row. The concrete wall is pointed at an angle, so the whole [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 18, 8×8 oil on clayboard SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 19, 8×8 oil on clayboard. See it in the Dad Etsy Treasury. This 19th Canyon Dream painting is of Georgia O’Keefe’s mountain in New Mexico, called The Pedernal. This view is from the campground [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 16, 8×8 oil on clayboard SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 17, 8×8 oil on clayboard I sold three Canyon Dream paintings this week, so am eager to repaint some of them. They never look the same twice; I’m just not that kind of artist.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 15, 8×8 oil on clayboard This scene was painted a few months ago on an alizarin crimson underpainting. Today’s version uses pthalo green underpainting, in two shades. The watercolory transparent effect comes from using thinned, overlapping color.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Canyon Dreams 14, 8×8 oil on clayboard This piece depicts the majesty of canyon walls towering above a swift running river. The walls are eroded smooth by wind, rain, and time.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Nest of Prosperity 2, 8×8 oil on clayboard Green is the color of money (in this country, anyway) and reflects Mother Earth’s abundance. A nest of eggs symbolizes prosperity; something many of us need during this trying time. This work uses transparent oil paint on a clay panel with [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crows at the Beach 7, 8×8 oil on clayboard I’ve sold the other two of this composition, so felt compelled to paint it again. I find painting ripples a challenge to render and they are quite different every time I do them. When painted on Claybord, it is tougher [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Morning 5 clouds, 8×8 oil on clayboard Ah, it was a plein air day! Painting outside in perfect weather is invigorating and inspiring. It gives you a chance to look up at the sky and contemplate the clouds. Artists often have their heads in the clouds; they are [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Hollyhocks 1, 8×8 oil on claybord Hollyhocks are one of my favorite flowers. They are found in the south leaning against stucco homes and wooden fences. We have them here, too, but they are often double-headed and less delicate. When the sun shines through the petals the color is [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Inspiration Lily Pad, 8×8 oil on clayboard Painted for the Inspiration All Around Us painting challenge facilitated by Dana Marie Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon.

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 6, 8×8 oil on clayboard SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 7, 8×8 oil on clayboard SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 8, 8×8 oil on clayboard Join the Heart of the Valley Children’s Choir at 4:30pm on May 2, 2010 for their [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow on the Beach 6, 8×8 oil on clayboard For the love of crows. They are everywhere, cleaning up after us. This one is waiting for something to eat. I was able to approach within 5 feet before it flew away. It hopped around, called out, and checked the [...]

SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow on the Beach 4, 8×8 oil on clayboard SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow on the Beach 5, 8×8 oil on clayboard A popular series of recent paintings is of crows. Here are some images painted from video I took at another trip to Taft, Oregon, south [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Calle Gran Bretana Adeje, Canary Islands, 8×8 oil on clayboard $64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Camino Matoso Buenavista Del Norte, Canary Islands, 8×8 oil on clayboard This month’s Virtual Paintout is of the Canary Islands. Since the participating artists could not fly to the islands to paint plein [...]

$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Forest Dream 2, 8×8 oil on gessobord After several days of contemplation, I was able to finish this work. It is similar to one done a few weeks ago, but on claybord instead of canvas panel. This series derived from the desire to use leftover paint. The calligraphic use [...]

© Pam Van Londen 2010, Brick Wall 1, 8×8 oil on clayboard For April’s Monthly Painting Challenge, we are painting a fairly flat image; a brick wall with climbing ivy and electrical boxes and tubes. This panel is the third attempt to render something interesting. Painting every brick is tedious and sometimes renders a boring [...]