The Spot Cafe'

"The Spot Cafe'"
Oil on canvas board
14" x 18"
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The Spot Cafe' is located at 446 Main Street, Hillsboro, Oregon. They have a to die for smoked pulled pork BBQ sauced sandwich cover with cool creamy coleslaw. I stood outside painting four a little over four hours with the smoke occasionally drifting all over me before I finished this painting and could go in to eat. It was well worth the wait.

Blue Heron Herb Garden

Blue Heron Herb Garden
Sauvie Island, Oregon
Oil on Canvas









Yes I know it isn't blue. He is metal and he rusted. They had several other herons throughout the gardens and I never did find a blue one.

House at Schriener's Iris Gardens

House at Schriener's Iris Gardens
Oil on Canvas
14" x 11"









I never did find out what the ladies went down the path towards the house to look at.

"Hummbug Creek" Camp 18
8" x 12"
Oil on Canvas





Went painting with other members of Pacific Plein Air Painters from around Hillsboro, OR today. It rained and then the sun came out and then it rained and then the sun came out and then it rained.....well you get the idea. Good old Oregon weather.

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....

I'm Famous

On the cover:
Original oil painting and haiku by Maeona L. Urban, Scappoose, Ore.

Sunrise and sunset
From the first day to the last
Time everlasting

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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.

Accepted at Broderick Gallery

"Saturday Market"
Oil on Canvas
11" x 14"








"Bistro"
Oil on Board
10" x 8"








Accepted in the Broderick Gallery downtown Portland.
"Unexpected Beauty, Street Views"
Frist Thursday Reception, February 5, 2009 6-9pm
814 SW First Avenue, Portland, Or 97204 (503) 684-5511 broderickgallery.com
Overall exhibit dates February 5-March 7, 2009
Proceeds benefit Street Yoga (a Portland non-profit organization)

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

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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
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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.

Sold a Second One

Well the Scholls Show ends this weekend and I sold two from it. The second one that sold is the view inside the tile factory where the sun is shining through a hole in the roof on to the brick chimney. I have it posted a few entries back.

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?

One Painting Sold & a Million Left to go

I sold my "McKay Creek Wetland" painting at the South Store Cafe art show that I am participating in with the Pacific Plein Air Painters. I have three more still there and I take one to replace that one this Friday. It always feels so good to think someone else likes my work.

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Well almost always anyway. I recently found two of my Northwest Coast Native American designs that I carved in wood were sold at an auction in Portland last year. I found them by googling my name and looking at all the sights. Well it turns out they were auctioned because the government seized all of some "crooks" assets. So we never know where our work ends up I guess.

Hope I don't get famous for those two.

Just Park Any Where

Just Park Any where
Oil on Canvas
14" x 18"
2007





Donated to the Touch the Heart of a Child 2008 Auction
Theme: "Everything Old is New Again"


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In 2006 I participated in a plein air painting class on Sand Island as part of the Arts & Eats Festival. After the class my husband and I returned to view the art vendors booths and the steamboat regatta. We enjoyed it and I decided that I would try to participate in the 2007 event.

I found that circumstances didn’t allow me to participate as a vendor or volunteer, but I was able to take my paints and find a location to work. I had originally planned to try to get a view of the artist's booths but because they had changed the layout it was much to crowded for that. In 2006 they had used both sides of the courtyard for vendors and in 2007 they had grouped them all on one side. It was just too crowded to locate a good scene. So I went around to the amphitheatre side and found the view you see in this painting. I thought perhaps other “Old cars made new again” might appear but they didn’t. I couldn’t help naming it “Just Park Anywhere” because that’s just what they did.

P.S. Finishing touches added March 2008.

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Caboose Explosions Dahlia

Caboose Explosion Dahlia
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
2000



This was one of my husband's favorite Dahlias. We grew it for a couple of years but it just wasn't hardy enough to withstand my gardening technique, the soggy Northwest weather, and the cold, even digging it up each winter and transplanting it in the spring. The petals felt like velvet and the center felt like wax.

I've kept it hanging in my studio off and on over the years for when I needed a shot of color in my life.