Back in August

I'm leaving on Sunday, July 5, for a trip to Mongolia. I'll be posting paintings again by mid-August. If you would like to follow my journey, you are invited to visit my blog at: www.foxstudio.wordpress.com.

'Pine Cone Ball' Oil painting by Rachel Schlueter

$75.00
Howdy, posting from Weaverville CA. Been camping and painting all month.
Our paintings will be featured in July at the Highland Art Center, Weaverville, CA. It's been an amazing adventure, seen lots of wildlife and rescued an infant scrub jay from an untimely death. A Raven was quick to hear the cries, a Jay had fallen from it's nest, we watched as the whole seen unfolded with in a few minutes time. What could I do but interfere? 'Juno' is doing fine, and almost grown up already, Stock and I will stay at camp until Juno can feed himself and return to the wild. 6"x6" oil on panel

"California Coast, Near Westport" by Linda Mitchell

6" x 8" oil on panel

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Here's another one from Westport, on the northern California coast north of Mendocino. I spent a week in the area last year, painting with my group of plein air painting buddies.

'Old Cone' oil by Rachel Schlueter

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6"x6" oil on panel, second in the series, we are still out plein air painting. gotta go paint while day light's burnin!

PATH IN SPRING, Oil Painting by Kathy O'Leary

This painting is on an 8 X 10 canvas covered panel. It was painted on location in the Spring at a beautiful wildlife marsh in the Northern California town of Arcata at the north end of Humboldt Bay. SOLD

"Mendocino, California Coast" by Linda Mitchell SOLD

oil on board 6"  x 8" SOLD 

This painting features Mendocino, a small town on California's north coast. It's an impossibly gorgeous place, with a quaint Main Street, miles of wind-swept bluffs, and a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean.

"Eleanor Again" by Amy Stewart--$40--SOLD

8 x 10 oil on board. Buy it now for $40 plus $5 shipping in the US, $10-$15 international, via Priority Mail.

This is the third of a set of portraits I did of my Rhode Island Red hen Eleanor to practice for a larger painting I did directly on my chicken coop. This one is 8 x 10 on art board. I think it's my favorite of the three. Or did I say that about the other two also?

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'Pine Cone' oil by Rachel Schlueter

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oil on 6"x6" panel. Been camping along the Trinity river all week, Stock and I are back for Open Studios, then we will head- out for three weeks to paint on location along the river and in the mountains. It's been a beautiful week of partly cloudy skies and pleasant warm spring weather. I felt this cone was the perfect subject for a small painting.

LUPINE PATH, Oil Painting by Kathy O'Leary

This scene was painted on a 9 X 12 canvas covered wood panel. It is the last in a series of paintings done on location along side two other Northern California Artists (Rachel Schlueter & Linda Mitchell of this blog). The spectacular lupine bloom was on the Bald Hills Road at the South Eastern end of Redwood National Park. SOLD

CALIFORNIA SKYSCAPE, Oil Painting by Kathy O'Leary

This painting is 8 X 10 on canvas covered panel. It's a scene from my Central California travels last September. I couldn't resist the grassy oak knoll under puffy clouds in the brilliant late summer blue sky. SOLD

"Lupine, Bald Hills Road" by Linda Mitchell SOLD

9" x 6" oil on panel SOLD   

This is the final painting from my plein air excursion with Kathy and Rachel to the Bald Hills, just outside Redwood National Park.

"Wild Lupine, California Coast" by Linda Mitchell SOLD

6" x 12" oil on linen canvas   SOLD

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Here's another one from our painting excursion to the Bald Hills a few days ago. The Times Standard ran an article about our adventure in the Sunday edition titled Painting the Lupine.

'Cowboy with Black Hat' oil by R. Schlueter

SOLD 6"x8" oil on panel, inspired by a photograph that my son, Tyson Ritter shot while he was with our local news paper

"HILLSIDE EUCALYPTUS", Oil Painting by Kathy O'Leary

This painting is a scene from my travels through Central California last Fall. I loved the light hitting the tree trunks and branches as it was filtered through the leaves and surrounding bushes. I find the Eucalyptus, while not a 'native' California tree, to be one of the more colorful and interesting trees to paint. This painting is 8 X 10 on canvas covered panel. SOLD

"OAKS UNDER PASSING CLOUDS", Painting by Kathy O'Leary

This is an 8 X 10 oil painting on canvas covered panel. It's a painting of a scene from the rural ranch lands of Central California. Violet clouds passed in front of the sun and gave the hillside and oaks a deep rich color without the usual shadows. The blue sky behind the clouds offered a nice complement to the ocher colored grasses. SOLD

"California Lupine" by Linda Mitchell SOLD

6" x 9"  oil on panel  SOLD     

Here's another one from last week's plein air excursion to the Bald Hills, which is just outside Redwood National Park, southeast of Orick.

"Purple Lupine" by Linda Mitchell SOLD

8" x 6" oil on panel

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This painting was inspired by an article in Eureka's Times Standard, regarding an especially spectacular wild lupine bloom on the north coast's Bald Hills. I traveled to the area, which is an hour northeast of Eureka, with Kathy O'Leary and Rachel Schlueter last week to paint the lupine en plein air.

Plaza Red by Rachel Schlueter, $75.00

6"x6" oil on panel. Painted alla prima from a photo I shot during a visit to Sonoma Ca. In the spring time the rose garden on the plaza is in full bloom and I must have taken 100 shots.

SUNSET, DRY LAGOON by Susan Fox SOLD

SUNSET, DRY LAGOON 8x10 oil on canvasboard- Dry Lagoon State Park is about 20 minutes north of us and is one of our favorites. This scene is looking east from the beach when we were there late one afternoon a year or so ago.