Recently I was pleased to be featured on Seattle Refined as their Artist of the Week. You can find the story here. Typically they share artists from the Seattle area, but my work was also of interest because of ties to the area and my collection of work created while visiting the Pacific Northwest.
Washington is one of my paintings featuring the area near Seattle.
The Smith River flows from the Klamath Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in Del Norte County in extreme northwestern California. It flows through Siskiyou National Forest, Six Rivers National Forest, and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. The river is named after explorer Jedediah Smith.
Puget Sound was created around the same time as Inlet, white spending time on the Olympic Peninsula.
Inlet was completed while visiting a friend in Friday Harbor, Washington.
Port Orford is the most recent addition to my Pacific Northwest gallery. I completed this pastel while experiencing forty-mile an hour winds. That day, I walked out onto an island near Port Orford, Oregon, to get to this vantage point. It was a little dicey because I had to navigate a very thin ridge to get into position. However, once out there, I found a cove that protected me from the wind.Â
Battle Rock is a scenic spot on the Oregon Coast. This rocky mound, near Port Orford, was named after a historic battle that took place here.
I’m currently building up the images in my Pacific Northwest gallery. Alaska is the latest addition.
Brookings, Oregon is a beach community, located just north of the state line with California.
This is a painting of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. I modified the view a bit by adding the island.
Banff
Oil Painting
48″ x 60″
10,000
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Mount Baker was painted while I was in North Cascades National Park. It is the only work that survived that day as the rest blew away in the wind. After Mount St. Helens, Mount Baker is the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range. It is the highest peak in the North Cascades and the northernmost volcano in the continental United States.
Mount Baker
Oil Painting on Canvas
30″ x 21″
2500
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