Rainy Season Approaching

As the rainy season approaches, we will be in our studios painting. This means more still life paintings will be available for sale. So, if you love still life artwork, be sure to sign up for our blog for updates

Art by Kathy Huxley

More Work At A New Gallery By Eva Marie Tanner Klaas

My cat oil paintings  are now showing at a new gallery called Patris Studio and Gallery located at 3460 2nd Street in Sacramento, California. If  you are in the area, please stop by and see my cats  and the other artists' wonderful artwork.  You will also find my work for sale at the Crescent Harbor Gallery in Crescent City, California,  the  Winchuck Gardens and Nursery in Harbor, Oregon,  Manely Art Center in Brookings, Oregon and on my website Cattailgallery.com or my blog evamarietannerklaas.blogspot.com.

"Adoptable 6x6 Oil on linen gallery wrap SOLD

"Docked" by Eva Marie Tanner Klaas

"Docked" 8x10 Oil on canvas board

This is a boat docked at the Brookings/Harbor Port.  The dock has been damaged perhaps by the tsunami but it still a working dock.
To me this was a complex subject. This meant I had to set up a game plan before attempting to paint it.  Therefore, I spent the morning cropping the original photo into several different compositions until I was happy with this one.  I constantly checked my proportions while drawing.   I have a tendency not to measure consistently because I just want to jump into the painting. This creates too many frustrating problems later on and  results in poor artwork. I used a limited palette to work on my problem with  values and I took my time analyzing the direction of the brush strokes due to the different planes.  Sounds exhausting, doesn't it?  It is. But in my mind, it was good study in values, perspective and proportions. 

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Audi Stanton Is Demo Artist of the Month At Crescent City

Audi Stanton is the demo artist for the month of October at the Crescent Harbor Gallery located in Crescent City.  Check your calendar  for October 25th  at 12 noon so you don't  miss out on this opportunity to see her demonstrate her palette knife and color technique. Audi will be using a limited color palette and you will be amazed of the colors she can create with the primary colors and white.

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"Little J" By Eva Marie Tanner Klaas

This is a painting I  did of the boat name Little J located at the Brookings/Harbor Port in Oregon.  I have spent a lot of time at the port painting the boats the last couple of years. It is all about seeing and practicing.  (Yes - practice, practice, practice).  I am trying to keep the background abstract, limiting the detail in the middle ground and detailing only my focal point. I am  using a limited palette to work on my values.

"Little J" 9x12 Oil on Canvas

If you want to visit the port, it is before the bridge to Brookings, Oregon heading north on 101 and after the bridge heading south.   It a lovely port by the Chetco River and the Pacific ocean.  A wonderful place to site see and, of course, a wonderful place to paint.