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Tag Archives: Oregon
The Long Night Is Over
After the 100 mile per hour PLUS winds, after the 20 inches of rain… after the week without electricity or water… is THIS a Ray of Hope?
Photograph by Pagani
A rainbow shines over a flooded field as seagulls rest in the distant foreground.
Oregon Originals
Oregon realist and impressionist paintings. Where are they now? In the past, I’ve been pretty well known for these types of works even though my later stuff has been in the abstract and abstract expressionist genres.
Although you will find several Oregon paintings here, most of this work can be found at Oregon Impressionist, The Roadside Artist and in the Painter of Oregon studio. By no means are these complete lists or displays of this vast collection, but they will give you a reasonable sample.
There are some additional works (or supplemental works of art) to be found at Blogger’s The Painter Of Oregon collection.
I recommend visiting and bookmarking each location listed above as you never know when this one will disappear. I’m liable to drop dead at any moment, for one thing, so don’t count on this collection being available forever.
And for those who are looking in the decorative vein, there are a variety of prints and posters from original art – available CHEAP – at the Roadside Artist CafePress Store. Some good stuff there…don’t miss it. And I may post some Oregon realism here once again – if you want me to.
Tierra Del Mar Summer Art Fair In Pictures and Words
The Tierra Del Mar Summer Fair is over so I thought I’d share some pictures and thoughts with you. I apologize for the quality of the images: I’m still having some problems with my overpriced digital camera. I’ll probably have to replace it at some point. *sigh* Tierra Del Mar is a little community just north of Cape Kiwanda/Pacific City Oregon and their annual art fair helps fund the community center. I was put in based on the recommendation of one of their musicians but I think they regretted it.
Anyway, let’s get started…
The space was okay, but I had too many large format paintings and not enough smaller ones for the shape of the spaces I was working with. The organizer went out of her way to help, however – and the people were nice.
So you can hardly tell, due to the bad images, but they got a good mix and there were lots of compliments. A few people – – even admired and complimented my my work. Amazing.
Of course, I wasn’t the only one at the show! They were all very nice people (the artists, I mean) and are very very good at what they do.
Charlie Gibbs does many interesting things with glass, and is quite charming too. His work shows he has a real head for art.
Pat Schultz does amazing needle work – she teaches too. Her collection features Brazilian Needle art, and it sold well during the show.
This lady does Pastels and fabric art. Her fabric collages look a little like oil paintings. It’s very impressive. I don’t think the pastels sold well, although they are very competent renderings. Personally, I loved them. It was the fabric art that really was the rave of the show.
You know, I never thought of fly tying as an art, but rather as a skill. But this gentleman has managed to turn his craft into an art. People love his hand-tied flies in Christmas ornaments.
I enjoyed meeting local artists, including Rose Perez, who dropped by to say ‘hi’. I’m not much of a socializer and I don’t consider myself to be an artist in the same way as Rose or some of these other people, but it was fun anyway. And I don’ think the people who ran the event liked me. I’m not sure why. They just didn’t.
Beautiful Ocean Sunset Painting, Cape Kiwanda
A line of clouds, a red sunset, and Oregons bigger Haystack Rock. What more could you ask for?
Sunset At Cape Kiwanda, Oregon
24″ x 30″
acrylic on hardboard
Part of the collection I’ve put together for an upcoming show. It will be nicely framed by then.
Originally, I had planned to put more into the painting, but sometimes less is more….
