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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.
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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Last week I was commissioned to paint a previous plein air daily painting onto a larger panel. We settled 40×30 inches:
Then I could not stop…I had to paint it again, only 48×48. Which one will they choose?
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.
$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.
$650 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Deschutes River 1, 24×36 acrylic
Thank you to Bekki for the photo to paint from. The dunes are fun to paint and so is the water. This is another painting I may keep working on.
$300 © Pam Van Londen 2010, Sedona Trees 1, 18×24 acrylic
I’ve been working this one for awhile and may just keep on working it! Not sure what is missing…pretty sure something is.
Send me your ideas.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
$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.
Revised © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crow Nesting, 24×18 mixed media acrylic
Since I had a whole day to play with paint, I created something unusual (for me anyway)…a mixed media piece of the current favorite subject (crows). I had left over ribbon and paper flowers from previous craft projects, so incorporated them into this acrylic painting.
Birds often find different fibers to add to their nests. This little crow found some gold ribbon, a doodad, and some transparent silky ribbon.
This painting has been revised. See the new version.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
$64 © Pam Van Londen 2010, KahNeeTa 6, 8×8 acrylic on claybord
When I forgot to bring brushes to KahNeeTa resort earlier this year, I painted with a butter knife. The effect was a fresh look, so I’ve painted another. This one is also a KahNeeTa scene.
I pulled out paint tubes of color that I often ignore. I call them my ugly colors… Phthalocyanine Blue, Indanthrene Blue, Quinacridone Gold, and Sap Green. They are not so ugly when grouped together.
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.
SOLD © Pam Van Londen 2010, Crows on the Beach 11, 8×8 oil on claybord
Ah to while away the hours watching birds at the beach…that is a vacation.
And if you can’t be on vacation, paint the scene to allow you to go there when you must just rely on your imagination.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
$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.
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!
