SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Fog 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
I started this painting in August and finally had the imagination to finish it. Sometimes a resolution takes awhile.
The subdued palette is kind of fun.
More crows playing around
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 7, oil on 8×8-inch archival Claybord panel; unframed.
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 8, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 9, 8×8 oil on claybord
These crow images were painted in oil on Ampersand claybord; my favorite surface.
I usually start with a red underpainting and layer thinned haphazard stokes on top. Then I use graphite to etch a bit of thinner lines, adding a bit of whimsey.
You can purchase this set or each individually. If you are interested in purchasing, write the check to HVCC to add to my daughter’s choir tour account. They are singing in Vienna this summer.
Is it snowing yet?
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Storm 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Storm 2, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Storm 3, 8×8 oil on claybord
In anticipation of the coming winter, I’ve painted three stormy images.
My many drives up and down Hwy 99W are always inspiring no matter what the weather.
I used a gray underpainting instead of alizarin crimson this time. I miss the red.
More nests of prosperity
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Nest of Prosperity 6, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Nest of Prosperity 7, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Nest of Prosperity 8, 8×8 oil on claybord
One of my favorite subjects to paint is a bird’s nest. They come in all shapes and sizes and include little bits of treasure in the form of eggs…new life waiting.
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Valley morning, with iridescent paints
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Morning 6 Vinyard, 8×8 oil on canvas panel
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Morning 7, oil on 8×8-inch archival canvas panel, unframed.
After playing with iridescent oil sticks last night at the First Thursday Art Walk, I had the urge to use them again.
This morning, I worked on canvas panels so the texture would easily pick up the oil. With the alizerin crimson underpainting and shimming deep colors, I was able to recreate a majestic atmosphere. And the sgraffito adds a bit of whimsey.
Willamette Valley Trio
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2013, Valley Evening 5.2, 8×8 oil on canvas panel
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Evening 6, 8×8 oil on canvas panel
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Evening 7, 8×8 oil on canvas panel
This trio of oil paintings on canvas board are images from artist Donna Beverly‘s property outside Philomath, Oregon.
They are painted in the Impressionist style instead of my more unique style of underpainting in alizeran crimson and abstracting the landscape with large obvious brushstrokes.
From this perch, you can see for miles on a clear day. If you sit there awhile, you notice the light changing.
The first one was revised in 2013.
Nests of Prosperity
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Nest of Prosperity 3, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Nest of Prosperity 4, 8×8 oil on claybord
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These nests were painted in oil on claybord, and have a bit of sgraffito. Both come framed in black wood.
Molalla River, Oregon
Sold © Pam Van Londen 2010, Molalla River Shore 7, 8×8 oil on claybord
Sold © Pam Van Londen 2010, Molalla River Shore 8, 8×8 oil on claybord
I just love photographing and painting rivers…so peaceful yet invigorating.
This 7th image of the Molalla River in Oregon uses a bit of splattering to render the rocks.
The 8th image uses sgraffito. I scratch into the paint with a pencil and render small lines.
Love Bird series part 2
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Love Birds 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Love Birds 2, 8×8 oil on claybord
The technique is transparent oil on Ampersand Claybord panels. Each is framed in a black wood frame.
See the previous post for the other two in the series.
Love Birds Series part 1
$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Love Birds 3, 8×8 oil on claybord
$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Love Birds 4, 8×8 oil on claybord
I painted these four at the same time so that if you purchased all four, they work as a unit. They hang in one large square or side by side or vertically.
Mauve Teal Pumpkin
$350 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Mauve Teal Pumpkin, four 12-inch panels totaling 24x24x1. Acrylic
Last weekend I had another wild hair about painting abstractly. This one uses just four colors, premixed to match a selection I made from the series of books called “Designer’s Guide to Color 5” by Chronicle Books.
These four square panels can hang in a larger square together or apart, or individually vertically or horizontally. Each is painted on the edge so no framing is needed.
More Crows in the Grass
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 4, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 5, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 6, 8×8 oil on claybord
Here are three more crows to sit with to the other three (see previous post).
Each is painted in oil on an archival clay surface on masonite board with sgraffito outlining for the foreground.
Once again my camera is having trouble photographing anything that is predominately red like the last crow. Odd.
Crows in the Grass
Sold © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 2, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow in the Grass 3, 8×8 oil on claybord
This series of crows use the same transparent oil point technique I’ve been using all year, with a little sgraffito added.
The clay surface provides enough scratching surface to add thin whimsical lines to the bold and wide brush strokes.
Crows at the Beach
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crows on the Beach 12, 8×8 oil on claybord
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow at the Beach 13, 8×8 oil on claybord
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow at the Beach 14, oil on 8×8-inch Claybord panel, unframed.
The most popular subject matter at the last exhibit was birds, and more specifically, crows.
Here are three new images of crows in flight. The invented color image has a style I’d like to work with for awhile.
See my work at Fall Festival Sept 25, 26
Woo Hoo! I sold 9 paintings!!!!
I’ll be selling my original 8×8 daily paintings at Corvallis Fall Festival on Sept 25 from 10:00am to 6:00pm and Sept 26 from 10:00am to 5:00pm at Central Park.
Stop by my booth (#168) to view my new work. Older work will be on sale.
See my work highlighted at the Fall Festival Blog.
Raven series
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Raven 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
I’ve been painting crows this year but I want to study ravens, which are larger. This one is first in a series.
This painting is featured in an Etsy Treasury.
KahNeeTa 5
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, KahNeeTa 5, 8×8 oil on claybord
Just another of my favorite scenes…the orange earth with a wisp of white sand, a majestic cliff, and a deep blue sky.
This one hales from KahNeeTa Resort in the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.
Teepee at KahNeeTa
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, KahNeeTa 4 Teepee, 8×8 oil on claybord
I’m not sure that teepees were typical Central Oregon High Desert dwellings before Europeans arrived there a few hundred years ago, but they are a popular scene in the USA.
KahNeeTa has teepees to camp in; they are like yurts only shaped like a teepee. They provide a romantic scene even with all the cars and RVs parked nearby.
Learn more about the Warm Springs Reservation.
Sage and other grasses at KahNeeTa
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, KahNeeTa 3, 8×8 oil on claybord
Here is another of my favorite desert scenes which includes sage, grasses, rolling hills, and a big blue sky with puffy clouds. I brings back memories of my strenuous solo hike at KahNeeTa near Warm Springs in Central Oregon.
Valley Evening 4
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Valley Evening 4, 8×8 oil on claybord
I started this painting a month ago at a plein air class. I’ve added to it several times but fell like it is done now. It is a relaxer…view to ease your eyes.
Watermelon and Fork,
for the Monthly Challenge
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Watermelon and Fork, 8×8 oil on claybord
This month’s Painting Challenge is a typical August still life…a picnic with watermelon.
Sage with a lonely rock
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, KahNeeTa 2, 8×8 oil on claybord
I love how the high desert grasses looks when everything is blooming, especially the sage.
This big rock sits by itself near the trail. I think it is a chunk of basalt.
Black Butte beyond the forest
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Black Butte 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
This abstracted highway scene shows Black Butte beyond the forest trees. I was unable to stop and take a reference photo, so I’m working from memory. I think the trees are pine but I have stylized them quite a bit.
Blooming sage in Central Oregon
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2013, Sage 1.2, oil on 8×8-inch archival Claybord panel. Unframed.
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2013, Sage 2.2, oil on 8×8-inch archival Claybord panel. Unframed.
August brings blossoms to the Central Oregon high desert. Sage and other small flowers are lighting up the cinder floor. I see Oregon sunshine and some small white flowers that I am unable to identify.
These paintings were revised in 2013.
First of a series from KahNeeTa
near Warms Springs, Oregon
$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, KahNeeTa 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
Our weekend trip to Central Oregon was an adventure. The terrain looks much like Arizona and New Mexico with red, gold, and white-painted hills.
This painting was done with a butter knife because I forgot my brushes! I have many more planned (with and without a knife), so stay tuned.
Columbia River Traditions
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Columbia Gorge Horsetail Falls, 8×8 oil on claybord
$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Columbia Gorge Oneonta Logjam 2, 8×8 oil on claybord
Our family tradition is to hike to a waterfall, ford the Oneonta slot canyon, and sit in the mud at Rooster Rock on the Columbia Gorge.
This year we hiked to Ponytail and Horsetail falls again, climbed over the logjam (the kids did, while I painted), and wade in the mighty river (the kids did, while I painted).
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Columbia Gorge Rooster Rock Flowers, 8×8 oil on claybord
My granddaughter saw her first waterfalls, hiked in her new boots, and her favorite…got up to her waist in the river and muddied-up her toes.
This photo expresses her joy!
Monthly Painting Challenge
Maya at the Fountain
$50 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Maya at a Fountain, oil on 8×8-inch archival Claybord panel. Unframed.
I think this fountain is located in downtown Portland but I’ve forgotten. Can anyone locate it for us?
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Prince Edward Island for the Virtual Paintout
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Prince Edward Island 1, 8×8 oil on claybord
August’s focus for the Virtual Paintout is Prince Edward Island.
This scene is from Tryon Point Rd facing the Northumberland Strait.
Many families have boats in their yards. I’m not sure if they are no longer being used or if they are just waiting for high tide.
Mary’s Peak 8 painted
en plein air
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Mary’s Peak 8, 8×8 oil on claybord
I enjoyed another evening of painting outdoors last night. We settled into some property south of Corvallis where we could view the sun setting over Mary’s Peak.
The wheat fields provided a gold texture against the misty blue backdrop of hills and mountains.
Join the group on Thursday for just $15. Contact Mark Allison.
Willamette River Paintout
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 10, 8×8 oil on claybord
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Willamette River 11, 8×8 oil on claybord
It was class outdoors again last evening. We painted at the Crystal Lake Boat Landing in Corvallis. Due to the heat of the day, many folks were boating, rafting, mud-soaking, and biking. The atmosphere was jubilant.
My favorite scene was the harmonica player conoeing with two dogs. He floated down river then appeared again later; he must have done the whole trip again! The lighting and the music seemed to transport me back 200 years and I expected Tom Sawyer to come strolling by.