Posts Tagged ‘Oil Paintings’

Requiem For A Dead Sister

There are many ugly things in life, and some of the ugliest involve the loss of close family members. I’m not portraying ugliness, however, I’m trying to tell how I feel…

Requiem For A Dead Sister, Expressionist paintings by Pagani

Requiem For A Dead Sister
Oil on Canvasette
16″ x 20″

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My oldest sister died. We weren’t exactly close, but we were family. And her loss made me feel like I’d missed out on something. It made me wish that we had found time to learn about each other instead of being separated by our messed-up family. But you can never go back, all you can do is remember….

signed, Chriss Pagani

Art Painting of Cannon Beach, Oregon in Oil

It is not quite reality, just a little beyond it. And yet is is truth. This was a small oil sketch, done completely freehand, no drawing or anything. I wanted to maintain a free, flowing style of the plen aire impressionists. I let the paint determine where it wanted to be.

Cannon Beach Oregon, Oil painting image

Cannon Beach & Haystack Rock
Oil on hardboard
9 inches x 12 inches


The philosophy of spirituality in nature, the truth of that which is observed.