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!


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

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

Clouds Over Diablo      10x20" oil on canvas

I finished this piece this week so that it could be in the preview show for the Open Studio Tour. I had my Diablo Summer in the brochure but it was too large to be in the preview exhibit. I tried to remember where I was when I painted Diablo Summer.  I will never paint the exact same thing twice, but this was on purpose.  I felt the public looking at the brochure might want to see something very similar at the exhibit.  Just being at a different place in your life, and a different mood, and a different day and temperature will of course make the painting different. Nature itself changes.  Going back to a location, the mountain is still there, but vegetation changes, or was I at the exact same location?  I hike all over, and my field notes get scribbly the more excited I get.  I will forget to write what trail I was on, but I will remember to note the temperature, the color of the grass, the color of the sky, cobalt, or prussian blue?

Now the trick is to get this painting dry enough to exhibit it on Friday!  I have set the painting out in the warm sun everyday this week to accelerate the drying time.  Having unseasonably cool weather has not helped.  It is just dry enough to the touch today, just still wet on the edges.  Darn titanium white takes the longest to dry, and that is what I mixed with blue for the sky.

Contact me if you want to see me at the Open Studios Tour in Alamo.  Or go to ADAS4art.org and click on events and them on Open Studios and look at the map.  I am on it!  There is close to 90 artists participating this year.

Until my next post, enjoy the art!