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.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Diablo's North Gate

9x12"  Plein Aire oil

This is actually an "indoor" plein aire painting.  I have a request from a client to paint a painting similar to one she purchased from me last spring.  The request was to use the same colors, size, frame and possibly something from the North Gate side, since she lives near there.  Well, every thing is so gold right now that I luckily have this wonderful photo in my files that I took last February when I was painting in that area.

I was sitting at the Pioneer Gallery in Danville last Sat. and I like to paint while I am there, so I started this piece from the photo there in the gallery. You can see the start of it on my easel when I photographed my newly made pochade box.
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