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.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Plein Aire @ Wood Ranch, Danville, CA

This morning I went out to the Don Woods Ranch in Danville, CA on Tassajara Rd. to paint with a handful of other plein aire artists. What a wonderful opportunity to be invited to this private property.  I got a personal tour of the property by Don himself. He has lived on that ranch for 73 years.  It has been in his family for a very long time.  It is truly a step back in time.  There are many out-buildings, barns, wagons, windmills, water silos, grain silos, and cabins on the property.  Some really cool dilapidating  old cabins that were used by friends and relatives that would come over for the weekend or week from the big city of San Francisco to spend time in the "country."

Here are a couple photos of me painting the eucalyptus tree and driveway to the property. I will post the painting later when the paint is dry enough to handle and photograph.





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