I am a landscape and seascape oil painter. I have been painting for over 30 years. Inspired by the beauty of nature that surrounds me. I try to paint daily while life continually gets in the way! Life? What is that? It's what happens when I am not painting! Being a wife and mother, finding the remote, the shoes, signing permission slips. Where is the permission slip? "Mom why is there alizaran crimson on my permission slip?" I paint en plein aire as often as possible, and studio paint when I can't, like at 1:30 in the morning. Often enlarging small plein aire paintings onto a large canvas. I hike all over Mt. Diablo and the surrounding hills gathering field notes for my large paintings in the form of sketches, notes, small oil sketches, and photographs. I have been chased by cows, tangled up in barbed wire, soaked in rain swollen creeks with slippery crossing rocks, and all the while I have to make sure I am back in time to pick up a kid from school! Back in the studio, I get to work on the day's information I have gathered. Recreating it on a large canvas. When I hear, "what's for dinner?" Dinner? What's for dinner? I should know this. My mother always knew this. It should be on the table in about ten minutes from now, and I haven't a clue as to the answer of that question. I am still trying to figure out how I got alizarin crimson on the permission slip!


Please enjoy my work, I will post as often as possible. Feel free to leave comments or to contact me by e-mail.



All works © 2010 Catherine McClure Lindberg No images may be reproduced without express permission from the artist.

Friday, February 15, 2008

February 15, 2008


I started this blog to help keep me on track with my goal as a painter.  I feel like a blog will be a way of being accountable.  I will feel like I need to continually create so that I will have something to post for you.
Today I am deciding what to paint.  I just finished a canvas yesterday and it is still too wet to handle to photograph and post for you.  I have a little voice calling me away from my easel.  In the form of a 30% off coupon that expires tomorrow from Dick Blick art supply store. I think I may have to take a slight detour from painting and run off and use it. I am in need of a new solvent can with a leak proof, air tight lid for out door painting.  This painting I posted is a recent one of mine painted at Lime Ridge in Walnut Creek, CA.
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