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.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The Business of Art

Diablo Moon  30x40" oil studio piece


Well, as much as I would like to post a painting daily, I paint daily but a lot of it is in my studio on large pieces that take weeks to complete.  You will notice that the "painting a day" bloggers are posting pretty small pieces of art.

Aside from painting daily in my studio, if you want to run your art as a business it involves taxes, which I have been busy working on and entering shows.  I spent a better part of last week phoning around looking for a studio to share to participate in a local "Open Studio Tour" that is coming up the first week of June.  My studio is outside of the area on the map. Then there is a big "Spring Show" coming up that I was busy selecting 2 pieces for and filling out paper work for.

Yes, it is not all painting.  It is paperwork, phone calls, volunteering at local galleries and associations you are in and then just the office work in your studio keeping track of which painting you entered where.  Believe me, if you do not take the time to organize your calendar, you will quickly find that the show you entered scheduled for the first weekend in June is the same date as the show you committed yourself to enter on June 7th. It is kind of hard to have your painting in two places at once.  Believe me I can juggle, and I am good, but NOT THAT GOOD!
I have been in my studio working on a larger piece of one of our local canyons.  The weather has been phenomenal and I feel guilty that I am not out in the field painting.  I do however have collectors that are waiting for larger "new" pieces from me.  Small plein aire 8x10's just don't cut it hanging on the walls of some of the what I call "monster" homes in our area.  Even a 3x4' piece I have been told looks like a postage stamp hanging in the great room of some of these humongous homes. 
I just entered two of my larger pieces into a local show.  I am posting one of them entitled "Diablo Moon."  It is of Mt. Diablo as viewed from the horse staging meadows on Castle Rock Rd. in Walnut Creek, CA.

This blog writing has been interupted 3 time by e-mails and phone calls, all pertaining to "the business of art!"  I am off to paint!  I hope you are too.
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