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.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Yosemite Falls
Monday, November 3, 2008
El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, CA
El Capitan, oil on canvas, 40x30" Studio piece painted from field studies
Monday, October 6, 2008
Danville Plein Aire
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The Pride Of Danville
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Guardian at Wood Ranch
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Copyright Infringement
Last Saturday a small local paper in a nearby city ran an image of the above painting without my permission. It was a great spot, right on the back page of the paper, taking up 1/6th of the page. Nice size......... Although there was no credit to me at all.
Hazardous Waste & Tightie Whities!
Friday, September 5, 2008
Plein Aire @ Wood Ranch, Danville, CA
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Diablo's North Gate
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Quick Plein Aire
Monday, September 1, 2008
Finished Pochade Box
Pochade Box
Inside lid showing spring mechanism
Close-up of spring mechanism
Inside lid cover with slots for metal "L-hook" for canvas support
Hinge made out of a toggle bolt
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Half Dome Sketch
Friday, August 22, 2008
Sketching
When I am out I always have my moleskine book with me and a very small travel pan of Cotman watercolors. This is a sketch I did of Lower Yosemite Falls. I sat on a rock at the bottom looking up and throughly enjoying the mist on a hot day. I usually do a very quick 30 minute sketch. It is enough information for me to bring home and do a larger painting if I want to. I also photograph the site and may do pencil sketches as well. I don't always have my plein aire oil paint set up with me but I try to always carry this sketch book and watercolors. All of this information is field work that I do to bring back in to the studio.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Yosemite!
Sketching in my moleskine book in Yosemite National Park.
I just returned from a trip to Yosemite with my daughter and my paint. I did a lot of hiking, bike riding, and plenty of sketching. In oil, and in my moleskine sketch book with a small watercolor kit. It is a tiny book that fits ever so nicely in the front pocket of my backpack. Many of the tiny sketches will be later turned into studio oil paintings. Stay tuned for images, as paintings are drying.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Clouds Over Diablo
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Work Never Ends!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Keepin' Busy
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Mother's Day!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
New Website
I am slowly joining the world of technology. This blog and now a new website which you can click on the link in the upper right corner of this blog or go to: www.zhibit.ogr/catherinelindberg
Friday, May 9, 2008
Busy Friday
Friday, May 2, 2008
Pacific Fine Arts Festival in Walnut Creek, CA
Well, the Walnut Creek show has come and gone. (Pacific Fine Arts Festival) I am posting a photo of my booth that I took early last Friday morning just after I had set up. I am still in the shade at that time. I had also already sold one of the small paintings. That was a good thing. But I wanted to take the photo before any sales were made. Well, I guess I can't complain about a sale. It was a great show. I couldn't have asked for better weather. I always do well in Walnut Creek as I paint the local area everyone loves so much.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
California Spring
Here is a small 10x10" plein aire oil that I just finished. It is still wet. I hope to sell it this weekend in Walnut Creek! With the way the economy is at the moment, I have tried to concentrate on having smaller more affordable pieces for sale.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Colors Of Spring
Today I am getting ready for the Pacific Fine Arts Festival in Walnut Creek that starts on Friday and runs through Sunday. This marks my 10th year with that show and luckily I have been on the same corner for 19 shows. They do 2 shows a year there in Walnut Creek, April and September.
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Road Less Traveled
What a month! Trying to work up a lot of paintings for my up coming Walnut Creek Art show. It is usually my biggest show of the year sales wise. I like to have a lot to offer. Walnut Creek is always my first outdoor show of the year.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The Business of Art
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Studio Sunday
It is very stormy today. I have spent the entire day in the studio. Working on a new piece of one of the local canyons and the oak trees and scrub oaks. I spent a lot of my time last weekend driving and hiking around several of our local canyons. The field work I gathered was enough to create many paintings. My sketch book is filled with notes and sketches and I must have taken over 200 photos on both days that I was out!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Rainy Days = Green Hills
Just sitting down to paint after a morning full of errands. Very stormy today. Not exactly a plein aire sort of day. Really cool lunar eclipse last night. I am posting a studio piece I finished a few weeks ago for a gallery show I had. "Winter's Green Splendor" is a scene from the Franklin Canyon area not far from me. It is a 24 x 36" oil on canvas. Everything is so green right now. All the surrounding hills. I like capturing the atmosphere and distant hills. I'd better get back to the easel.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Rainy Tuesday
I am posting my current studio piece titled "Poppies and Lupine." I went out in the field on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I found myself in Niles Canyon on my way to a memorial service. I packed my sketchbook and camera and set out early to take the opportunity to sketch and photograph along the way. There is no real place to put your car on that winding canyon road. I squeezed as close to the side as I could and climbed out for some quick photos. I did find and old road to venture off on and got some good sketches done. They may very well become paintings.
I note on my pencil sketches what the weather was like, the temperature, the wind and what kind of sky it was. A Prussian sky or a Cobalt sky. These are colors I use when I paint and these notes are very helpful when I get back in to my studio. I may put that the clouds had a hint of cad red light in them, or possibly an alizarin hue to them.
On Sunday I took off and traveled down Crow Canyon Rd. With no map in hand I rambled along and stopped many many times to innumerable to count. I climbed over guardrails and fences. Again I snapped more photos and did lots of sketches. I was in territory that I had not really been in before. Not while I was driving. When I am driving, I will stop to sketch a rock, a post, a cloud, a cool looking bush ....... you get the idea.
When I finally set up to paint I knew that the light was going fast. I quickly blocked in my light and shadows before I lost them. It was a hazy day, the air was stagnant. The clouds were moving in, which explains today's rain. I really rushed this painting as I was worried about my van precariously parked on the side of the narrow road. "Crow Canyon February" is an 8x10" oil on canvas.
I know when I paint en plein aire, that I am quite often painting history as many time places I have painted have been bulldozed over for new developments. Some other places thankfully have been preserved as public open space. I feel honored to capture this precious land around me on canvas. To help preserve and document its history. We need to care for the land we live on so it will be here for the future generations to come.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Artistic Distractions
Off to a foggy start this morning. I have to go to a funeral today. It is about an hour away from my home. I plotted my driving route and it will take me right through Niles, and Niles Canyon Rd. Beautiful area. I will have my camera and sketchbook with me. No paints allowed. I am trying to figure out what exactly I can wear to a funeral and look acceptable and still be comfortable enough to go out hiking and sketching along the way. I am leaving in plenty of time to lollygag along the way. I am thinking black jeans, and bring a change of shoes and a nice sweater to put on when I arrive at the service. Works for me. Can't miss an opportunity to capture some of that beautiful scenery I will encounter along the way. I can't wait to get back home tonight and paint where I've been! In the meantime I am posting an old oak tree I painted. Everything is so green this time of year.
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.