Winter Vase Project

"Another Vase?"
20" x 16"
Oil on canvas










A few of us from the Portland Plein Air & Studio Painters decided to purchase the same vase and include it in a painting of our choice. That vase is the clear square one in the foreground of my painting. I tried and tried to find something to put in the vase that would inspire me and came up with nothing. I then "tossed" it in to a big plastic tub I have my other vases in and asked myself did I really need another vase? I liked the way the vases looked all together in the tub but they didn't seem just right no matter how I turned it so I took some of them out and sat them on the table. Ta Dah....

New NW Coast Native American Designs

"Hummingbird"
12" x 9"
Acrylic on Canvas

Wiley 'Brer' Hummingbird has the heart of an Eagle
An eager warrior and a defender of home
Yet is known as a symbol of peace
and a return to vigor and life in the Spring.
May our soldiers all be Hummingbirds.


"Frog"
12" x 9"
Acrylic on canvas

I'm loosing my place on this earth.
Animals step on me.
Birds eat me.
Man drains my ponds.
I have no home.
When I leave,
everything will be changed...forever.

These paintings and others of my NW Coast Native American designs may be purchased at:
American Trails
27 N Main Street
Ashland, Oregon 97520
541-488-2731

Portrait of Kathy Allegri

"Paper Cut Out Kathy"
8" x 6"


"Kathy"
Oil on Canvas
14" x 11"





This is my finished portrait of Kathy Allegri. The Portland Plein Air & Studio Painters teamed up two by two for a project. We each were to do a self portrait which I painted first for practicing my people skills and which I posted earlier. Then we were to do a portrait of our partner. Kathy has such beautiful skin color in real life and I must admit that I had to attempt many variations and I'm still not certain about what I have on canvas. I did the paper cut out from a few scraps I had in my studio so the values of the hair and skin tones are too close but it helped me to get an idea where the basics were. Kathy has such an engaging smile both in person and in the photos she sent me that I made both portraits, the one of myself and the one of her smiling, but I found teeth a challenge and have vowed that my next portrait subject will have to be happy with their mouth closed if I get to choose.
Kathy I enjoyed painting you and I learned some very nice things in our correspondence. See you in person soon I hope.

Portrait Project

Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas
14" x 11"

This is my first attempt at a self portrait. I am doing it in conjunction with a project with the Portland Plein Air & Studio Painters. About 20 of us have paired up. Each person is to do a self portrait and a portrait of their painting partner. I have done portraits of people before but have always shied away from doing one of myself. Now I wish I had done it when I was younger and less "character lines". It is really difficult to be objective. I'm open for constructive critiques.

Honorable Mention

NEWS FROM ...

Kingstad Gallery

Portland Plein Air & Studio Painters’ Annual Exhibit 2008
Expressions Of Nature Expressions of Self
through 12/06/08

Award Recipients ...
Juried by George Broderick, Eric Kingstad & Lora R Fisher

Celeste Bergin Thoughts Of Malcolm, 30 x 40, oil,

Best of Show

Kitty Wallis Hot Tub II, 24 x 36, pastel First Place
Michael Orwick Sunset At Vista House, 20 x 18, oil Second Place
Amanda Houston May Clover, 20 x 20, pastel Third Place

Honorable Mention,
Brenda Boylan View From Center, 8 x 13, pastel
Maeona Urban End Of The Tile Factory, 11 x 14, oil
Barbara Szkutznik Passage, 31 x 36, pastel

Exhibiting with internationally recognized guest artists:
Mitch Baird, Eric Bowman, George Broderick, Scott Gellatly, Eric Jacobsen, and Cathleen Rehfeld

Portland Plein Air & Studio Painters:
Vicki Zimmerman, Jack VanNess, Katherine vanSchoonhoven, Quin Sweetman, Carolyn Rondthaler, Cris Merrill,
Mary Luzinski, Bev Drew Kindley, Kimberly Kent, Carrie Holst, Kathy Fisher, Jonathan Farley, and Kathy Delumpa Allegri

stone sculptor Joni Mitchell and metalsmith Bill Dawson

Information:
Lora R Fisher
Director, The Kingstad Gallery
Lora@Kingstad.com
Lora@LRF-FineArts.com
503.626.6338 • 971.344.5848

Presenting original works of art by regional and national artists from all visual disciplines,
in the largest privately-owned exhibition space in the Portland Metro region.

15450 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton, Oregon 97006 • 503.626.6338

Gallery hours:
Monday – Thursday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Friday, 9:00 am – midnight
Saturday, 5:30 – midnight
Sunday, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
or by appointment: 503.626.6338

To view other works in the show click the link in the upper right.

Cafe in the Heat of the Day

Cafe in the Heat of the Day
16" x 20"
Oil on Canvas
Sold






Expressionist Plein Air project assignment number three. Do studio expressionist piece from sketch, plein air, photo or imagination/memory.

My previous entry shows a study I did of a VanGogh cafe. This is our local cafe only instead of night mine is in the afternoon. I wasn't able to get the texture I wanted when I did the Van Gogh study so I used a palette knife to do most of this one. I'm trying to learn something new after painting in a closet for so many years. This has been a fun assignment.

Maeona Van Gogh

Maeona Van Gogh
A Study of
A Sidewalk Cafe at Night
by Vincent Van Gogh
18" x 14"
Oil on Canvas Board





Expressionist Plein Air Project

Assignment two was to do a painting from any painter who you feel has achieved expressionist landscape painting. So here is my feeble effort.

Seated Plein Air Painter

Seated Plein Air Painter
Oil on Canvas Board
14" x 18"






As a member of the Portland Plein Air Painters I have been working on a project called "Expressionist Plein Air". Since I have been trapped in studio painting for years this is a challenge for me. The first assignment was to do minimalist paintings in Plein Air. I first had to study some minimalist artwork to even get some idea. Well here is my effort. My friend Nancy and I went out painting on Sand Island, St. Helens Oregon. The green is the receding tree line heading down the beach. The tan is the beach. The blue sky. The red is her blouse. She was wearing white shorts and leaning toward her painting surface, which was pastel paper. The black under her is the shadow area cast by how she was seated.

Schriener's Iris Garden

Schriener's Iris Garden

16" x 12"
Oil on Hardboard

I painted this one lovely day in Salem, Oregon, while on a paint out with the Portland Plein Air Painters. Seems to be a favorite with several of my friends. I hope to be showing it this September 10th through December 5th with the PPAP group in our annual show. This year the location of the show will be the Kingstad Gallery in Beaverton. "Expressions of Nature/Expressions of Self" 15450 SW Millikan Way. We each get to submit 10 of our paintings. I'll have more information soon.

Outing at Sauvie Island, Oregon

This was the beginning of the day.







This is stage two.

This is stage three.


I would call it the finished painting but I'm finding it rather bland.
My husband says it's peaceful. It was a cold, wet, windy day and about six or eight artists were huddled in a wildlife viewing shelter. At one point in the day about 40 high schoolers unloaded from a bus to identify birds so we shared the shelter with them for about 15-20- minutes. When it was time for us to quit for the day the sun came out.



I'm looking for comments on this one. Should I put a flock of ducks, a log in the foreground, leave it alone, or paint over it?