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.
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.
I’m currently building up the images in my Pacific Northwest gallery. Alaska is the latest addition.
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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Welcome to Mark Gardner Art, where I share news and images of my oil and pastel paintings. If this is your first visit to my website, I’d like to share a little about myself and my art.
I’ve spent most of my life in the woods as a logger and Plein air painter. After an accident at age sixteen, I started drawing and have been creating for over fifty years. Formal schooling includes the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, classes at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Art Students League in New York City. Born in the Pacific Northwest, I have lived most of my life in Pennsylvania.
I’ve spent most of my life in the woods as a logger and Plein air painter. After an accident at age sixteen, I started drawing and have been creating for over fifty years. Formal schooling includes the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, classes at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Art Students League in New York City. Born in the Pacific Northwest, I have lived most of my life in Pennsylvania.
Most comfortable in the outdoors, I work primarily en Plein air, as my love of creation and nature drives me. The bulk of my work is nature landscapes, but I deviate from this from time to time. Both the scenic beauty of places traveled and my current surroundings in Western Pennsylvania influence my work.
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