The Tales of a Tag-Along • Part 2 • Pacific Northwest Plein Air 2010

Day Two…

After an incredible first day of Pacific Northwest 2010 , I was unsure what to expect for the rest of this adventure. I mean, that was amazing and pretty hard to beat. I was careful not to expect too much.

Jeanne and I got up before the sun by about 20 minutes. Not being use to the Oregon light schedule had cost us precious morning light. We quickly threw our gear in the paint-mobile and sped to our scheduled meet up with some of the other artists.

Our destination: Panorama Point.

When we arrived this scene is what greeted us. Quite impressive yes, but we had no time to ogle. Daylight was burning, literally. I could not believe how quickly the sun was rising! Let’s just say this week was a lesson in speed painting for me. I had about 30-45 minutes to trow something on my canvas before the lighting had changed so greatly that I had to stop. Below is my painting. It has since been touched up a tad. Another 20 minutes has gone into it just to complete the over all feel.

9×12 • Oil on Canvas Panel • Original is Available

The below photo was taken when I finished painting. Notice the difference in the landscape. Pretty dramatic eh? This is Michael Orwick and Elio Camacho. Both were great painting company. Nothing like a lot of creative energy and a couple wise cracks to spur some artistic productivity.

Next we headed out to Multnomah Falls. This was a direct result of my pestering and I am so thankful for the others catering to my touristy whims.

Is this not a gorgeous spot?!

I was quite the happy camper just hanging out at the base of this incredible waterfall. So calming yet energizing.

Below is a quick video of the view from the upper bridge looking up at the falls.

The hundreds of tourists that passed by while we painted were curious about our art but even more so about our cool shades…

Here is the lovely Jeanne modeling our communal pair of decoder glasses. (Thank you Michael for sharing your stash!) They came in extremely handy especially while painting this waterfall which happened to be in flat light. They reduce your vision to a single hue (or color), thus making your sight purely a value scale, or light vs. dark. Very important for painting. The (other ) tourists would stare quizzically and the brave ones would ask, “Does that make the waterfall 3D?” … mmmm yeah. I’m serious.

After painting the falls from the viewing platform we retreated to the parking lot which proved to be just as amazing. Even better, it had sun. So I sat myself down on the grass and painted another little painting. I am having WAY too much fun at this point!

After that we headed back East and stopped for our final painting stop of the day in Cascade Lockes, Oregon. It was about 5 PM and I had 3 paintings done. I was feeling pretty accomplished.

We walked out to the end of Thunder Island where we paused to take in the view. What a place, what a view, what a blessing this has been. *breathe* ahhh…

Ok, back to paint brain! What to paint???

Oooo, that’s a pretty cool stern wheeler! Lets do that!

“I don’t know, It’s Friday night. I’m sure they have a dinner cruise scheduled” Said Thomas Kitts, another one of our very talented painting associates.

He pulled out his iPhone and made a call… Putting his phone back in his pocket, he looked up river towards the stern wheeler and said,

“They leave at 6:30. We have an hour.”

Three of us exchanged excited glances and quickly got started…

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Tags: Art, Artist, Karen, Karen Whitworth, Oil, Oregon, Painting, Plein Air