A Day At The Beach

A Day At The Beach was painted in one day as a mock up of a large painting I am planning for the future.  I worked at getting the beach colors just right and the connection of the family members.  After finishing it I then put it up for a few days and look at it each time I walk by to see if there is anything that I want to change. This painting is smaller,  just 12" x12".   

A Day At The Beach                                                    @ copyright Glennda Field

Windfall Purlieu - Lavendar selected for Oregon Soceity of Artists Fall Juried Show

Windfall Purlieu is a beautiful farm just up the hill from the Sandy River.  It is on Woodard Road in Corbett, Oregon.  The owner,  Alison Knieriem, grows 5 different kinds of lavender and fields of sunflowers.  It is a beautiful farm.  I love driving past her fields on my way home and often stop to buy a bundle of lavender or a bouquet of sunflowers .  It was early evening when I glanced over at her lavender fields and what I saw inspired this painting-

Windfall Perlieu - Lavender
 Windfall means blessing
Purlieu means the area near or surrounding a place
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"Eloise" was juried into the Watercolor Society of Artists Fall Show

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   SOLD

Eloise is among 80 paintings selected by juror Linda Baker to be included in the Watercolor Society of Oregon's Fall 2014 Transparent Watercolor show. Linda selected from 328 paintings submitted by 198 artists. I am delighted to be one of the 80!  

The Watercolor show is held in conjunction with-

Roguish Affair – WSO Aqueous Convention

October 3-5, 2014

 

You can see all 80 pieces at the Rouge Gallery and Art Center

October  4   through November 14, 2014

 

40 S. Bartlett Street
Medford, OR 97501
phone: 541-772-8118

email: info@roguegallery.org

Art Center Hours

10am – 5pm, Tuesday – Friday
11am – 3pm, Saturday
5pm – 8pm, every third Friday

Admission

Entrance to our galleries are free to all. We, however, do appreciate any donation you can make to support the Rogue Gallery & Art Center, a non-profit charitable organization.

 

 

 

Summer of Painting People - Workshop

Eloise

Taught my final class at Clark Community College today.  I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching beginning and intermediate watercolor for the past 5 years for them.  I have met the most amazing artists and feel like I contributed to their art quest through my classes.

Today's workshop was painting people. 

Eloise was my model.  She the daughter of a friend and she has a big personality and is just the cutest.  I think there are more paintings of Eloise in my future.  

Painting the Sights of Summer

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Painting the Sights of Summer Workshop  on July 16 found 15 students painting Multnomah Falls.  The painting on the left uses mostly warm tones to capture the lush greenery surrounding the most visited tourist sight in the state of Oregon.   

This was my demonstration painting for the morning session.

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Multnomah Falls II - one more version of the majestic falls.  This one includes some cooler tones of red and blue to emphasize the contrast of the granite cliffs against the sunlit trees as the sun comes up from the east.

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The afternoon session was scheduled to include a painting of  the students favorite summer flower.  However, the class was so focused on finishing their Multnomah Falls painting that we had only enough time for me to demonstrate painting a white Matjilla Poppy.

Coat of Many Colors

A rooster on the grass with sky as the background.  Hmmm.....nice but no wow factor.   Did a little reworking, had a lot of fun, enjoyed using a wider variety of colors with some added compositional elements and ended up with a flamboyant bird. 

Coat of Many Colors
Acrylic on Canvas 24" x 30"
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It's nearly the season for Sunflowers

Sunflowers have to be one of the happiest flowers of all.  They are very fun to paint.  

Sunflower Morning  
 24" x 30"  Acrylic on Canvas

Columbia Gorge Art Festival 2014

The Columbia Gorge Art Festival is always a wonderful event.  Artists from all around the area bring their paintings, pottery, hats, cards, quilts, soap, jewelry, garden art, wood carvings, photography, hand made gifts and many other wonderful products to sell.  A portion of the proceeds goes to the Corbett School District.  A beautiful drive in the Columbia Gorge is always a good choice for a Saturday or Sunday Drive and the Columbia Gorge Art Festival is definitely a stop you will want to make.

Here is my space before the Festival started.  There are still  paintings available so if you see one you want get in touch with me.  Glenndafieldart@gmail.com

Redo - White Tulips reworked

I decided to rework this painting.  It is an acrylic on canvas 24 x 36.  I liked it but it was never quite right so I spent some time on it and now I love it!

                                                                          

 Newest version

Before the tweaking

Sometimes you just have to look at a painting for a while to see what will work and what won't.  I'm glad I spent the time to do some tweaking.  Now I like it a lot.  What do you think?

Deep Purple

Yes! I am so delighted that my painting Deep Purple, selected by juror Robert Burridge, is to be included in the Watercolor Society of Oregon's Spring 2014 Aqua-Media show. Getting the news was like getting an unexpected, wonderful Christmas gift. I'm so excited.

Deep Purple   
          Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper 26 x 23  
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