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.

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.  

I just completed this small 11x14" plein aire piece, "The Road Less Traveled."  Not a car in sight that day reminding me that I was very much alone as I was out painting.  Haven't decided if that was a good thing or a bad thing. Seemed great at the time, and yet it weebs me out later as I think of all the "what ifs"

Today I am in my studio putting the finishing touches on a 24x30"studio piece.  I kept putting it aside all month to work on smaller paintings.  I want to have a large inventory of small works for my show as I think those just may be the big sellers this year with people having less disposable income as in the past.
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