Showing posts with label Sauvie Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sauvie Island. Show all posts

Monday, August 31, 2009

Sauvie Island Reflection


"Sauvie Island Reflection"
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"






What great fun. I just found another artist's painting from almost the same location. Jef Gunn and I must have similar taste in plein air.

His can be viewed at http://portlandpleinairandstudiopainters.blogspot.com/ just above the August 19th entry.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

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?