Author Archives: Kate McGee
Still Life in a Busy World
The deck project is ongoing and I am still at home watching it come together. One of the contractors brought us beautiful heirloom peppers and I painted them. I sat before my easel concentrating on making only marks and … Continue reading
23rd Anniversary Celebration for Vistas and Vineyards
Tonight’s the night! The show is up of selected work from a terrific summer of plein air painting. There is an awards reception from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Giustina Gallery at the LaSalles Center on the OSU Campus. The … Continue reading
Studio Still Lifes
I am bound to my studio these weeks as Scott is off nursing his mom and I am left to midwife our new deck and landscaping project. Since he is gone, I have become a denizen of my basement studio … Continue reading
Working on an Old Painting
During the past few weeks I reworked an old painting and improved it substantially. This week I tried another. There are a couple of new directions I am considering. One is to add more lines of water leading to the … Continue reading
Reworking a Painting
I have had Soggy hanging in our bedroom for some time, watching it to see how it could be improved. The invitation to show at the Corvallis Fall Festival Fine Arts Showcase this year motivated me to work to make … Continue reading
In My Element
The Philomath Open Studio Tour was a success. I met many interesting folks who love art and enjoyed the party atmosphere of our visitors as the volume of discussions rose at the end of each group’s wine tasting. I am … Continue reading
Philomath Open Studio Tour 2011
Philomath Open Studio Tour is this weekend and the next! Yesterday, Harold Wood and I set up our show at Spindrift Winery in Philomath. Our studios are too far from town to engage the public so we are depending on … Continue reading
Up on the Wall
Was in Eugene yesterday, hanging a show of diverse work at the Pizza Research Institute at 530 Blair…a diverse show with Purely Pastel Artists. I have four pieces in the show. PPA is five pastelists from the lower Willamette Valley. … Continue reading
Get Ready
The workshop with Erik Sandgren was great: mixing my edges from hard to soft, my forms from warm to cool, designing the picture plane as well as the painting composition and, most importantly, making space on paper. He advised that … Continue reading
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