Linda J. Edwards

Posted: November 20, 2008 at 5:31 pm · Filed under Online Art Tour

Shadows ©2008 Linda J.Edwards, Watercolor, 7.5" x11"

I am an award-winning artist who has been living in Corvallis for the past year.  I work in a variety of media including watercolor, oils, and prints.  I am also an art educator.  I  taught drawing and painting at community colleges for 24 years in California before relocating to live in CohoEcovillage, a cohousing community in Corvallis.  I am currently teaching watercolor and drawing for LinnBenton Community Education in  Albany, Corvallis Parks and Rec, and the OSU Craft Center. 

I love to paint landscapes outdoors on location.  I am a member of Vistas and Vineyards and spent many wonderful hours painting neaby locations with the group this past summer.  I was in a 3 person show at the Guistina Gallery at LeSells Stewart at OSU in August where  I showed 34 watercolors. I will be showing watercolors at the Albany City Hall in December of 2008.  I have work in collections around the world, including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. My work can be seen on my website.

 ”Shadows” is part of a painting project from Different Strokes from Different Strokes. Artists are invited to paint a weekly painting from a photo by Karin Jurick, which she posts on the site. She then posts all the submissions the following week. This watercolor was inspired by an upside down photo of a walker. We each created our painting upside down and then inverted the final result.

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Rusty van Rossmann 32 years later

Posted: November 20, 2008 at 5:23 pm · Filed under Online Art Tour

© Rusty van Rossmann "Number 8" acrylic NFS

After 32 years of providing illustrations for Archaeologists I’ve finally decided to admit I’m an artist and do some exploring.

This piece (Number 8) was a breakthrough painting for me and was done under the instruction of Mark Allison. I recall struggling with the use of color in my attempts at figure painting and got the impression Mark didn’t think my realistic renderings were art. I was angry when I painted this piece and tapped into emotion. I overemphasized the figure to express my frustration and caught the shadows representing different aspects of the model. The colors fell into place without me thinking about it and Mark made me stop before I kept messing with it. This piece won best 2d for that year’s Corvallis  Community Art Show.

You may want to visit my developing web site to see some of the work I’ve done since starting Van Rossmann Illustration in 1976.

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Donna Beverly, Carolee Clark and Caradon Exhibit at Unitarian Fellowship

Posted: November 20, 2008 at 4:53 pm · Filed under Events & Exhibits

Who is Caradon?  Carolee and Donna = Caradon.  Collaborative acrylic paintings by Caradon and individual paintings by Donna & Carolee will be exhibited at the Unitarian Fellowship on Circle Blvd. in Corvallis, Oregon from December 7 - January 5.  Open to the public Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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Norma Eaton

Posted: October 22, 2008 at 9:23 pm · Filed under Online Art Tour

Norma Eaton works primarily in collage, painting her own papers for an inexhaustible variety of colors and textures. She has invented her own vocabulary for the paper textures she has developed.

The paper texture most often seen in her art she calls “smoosh” paper because various colors are “smooshed” together between 2 pieces of paper. These are often seen in the sky and in water.

Her subjects for painting are the beautiful northwest wild places. Every summer she and her husband hike the many natural areas of her home state, Oregon, gaining inspiration for her art. She is a member of the Corvallis Art Guild and a local plein-aire group, “Vistas & Vineyards”.

Her art can be viewed at the Westgate gallery in Philomath, the Corvallis Art Guild online art tour and at various businesses throughout Corvallis.

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Members’ Fall Shows

Posted: September 23, 2008 at 5:36 pm · Filed under Brush Strokes Newsletter, Events & Exhibits, News (home), Regional Shows, The Arts Center

LaVonne Tarbox-Crone will have her home studio open two weekends—October 18, 19 and 25, 26 from 11-5.

Paul Rickey has a permanent show at Rickey’s Deli.

Mike Bergen is showing his work at Harry’s Fishmarket, 151 NW Monroe, through Oct. LBCC Faculty Art Show is in South Santiam Hall ArtGallery through November 21.

Carol Chapel is featured in the LBCC Invitational Art Show at North Santiam Hall Art Gallery through December 5.

The Transparant Watercolor Show at the Florence Events Center in Florence has four of our CAG members showing their work: Karen Kreamer, Carolee Clark, Doyle Leek, and Tom Allen.

Vistas & Vineyards Annual juried show will be held at OSU’s LaSells Stewart Center Sept. 29-Oct. 29. An artists’ reception will be held in the LaSells Stewart Center on Thursday, Oct. 8, from 6-8 pm.

Between now and Oct 21, Pam Van Londen is showing 38 landscape and portrait paintings in acrylic and oil at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis at 2945 NW Circle Blvd. Reception at 12:30 pm on Oct. 5 at UUFC.

The Arts Center will feature the 6th Around Oregon Annual from October 2 -30, with a reception on October 2 from 5:30- 7:00 pm. This annual exhibit always is a wonderful sampling of artwork from around the state. Look for work by Carol Chapel, Kathryn Honey and Charles Leach.

Doyle Leek has a collection of his work at Red Horse Coffee, 308 S.W. Third St., now through mid-October. Doyle’s favorite subjects over the past three years of painting range from the mechanical to the human form.

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Hanging Around Town Schedule

Posted: September 23, 2008 at 4:45 pm · Filed under Archive, Brush Strokes Newsletter, Hanging Around Town, News (home)

Click here for a link to the Hanging Around Town schedule for October-November.

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Online Art Tour

Posted: September 23, 2008 at 4:00 pm · Filed under Online Art Tour

Scroll down to view additional biographies and art. Artists with their own web sites are listed at the left. Join the online art tour if you have exhibiting member status.

View exhibiting members’ web sites:

Mike Bergen (Mike Bergen) blog

Frazier Creek Studio (Karen Brockett)

Carol Chapel

Carolee Clark (Carolee Clark)

Mariah Creations (Maureen Frank)

A Painter’s View (Katy Grant Hanson)

An Artist’s Life (Diane Hoff-Rome and Gordon B. Dobbie)

LaVonn Tarbox-Crone (LaVonn Tarbox-Crone)

Kristi Mitchell (Kristi Mitchell)

FernLeaf Studio (Jasmine Nahorniak)

Earl Newman Prints (Earl Newman)

Alice Art (Alice Tetamore)

Creative Calalyst Productions (Lynn Powers)

Acorn Studios (Andrea Seavers)

Tasman Studio (Carrie Tasman)

i-Paint (Pam Van Londen)

Umbrella Painting Journal (Diane Widler Wenzel)

Harold Wood (Harold Wood)

View member art and bios below:

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Hanging Around Town Schedule

Posted: September 16, 2008 at 10:00 am · Filed under Events & Exhibits, Hanging Around Town

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Artist Reception for Pam Van Londen

Posted: September 14, 2008 at 3:35 pm · Filed under News (home), Regional Shows

Between now and Oct 21, Art Guild member Pam Van Londen is showing 38 acrylic and oil landscape and portrait paintings at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis at 2945 NW Circle Blvd.

Join her for a reception at 12:30pm on Oct 5, 2008 in the UUFC Sanctuary.

Van Londen has been painting and drawing since she was 12 years old. The work hanging in the UUFC show is of her recent larger works on canvas. Most scenes are from her travels around the Pacific Northwest, California, and the Southwest.

She is part of a large group of artists known as Daily Painters, who paint very nearly every day. The daily paintings are typically between 5×7 and 8×8 on wood panels.

She has a BA in Art and an Interdisciplinary Masters degree from Western Oregon University and teachers Web Development and Women Studies courses at Oregon State University.

For more information, contact Pam Van Londen.

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Clothesline Sale 2008

Posted: August 20, 2008 at 9:34 pm · Filed under Archive, Clothesline Sale, News (home)

The weather for the 47th Annual Clothesline Sale of Art was perfect–partially overcast, partially sunny, not too warm. Everyone had a good time, even though the crowds did not seem as heavy as they have been at recent past sales. Perhaps the economy and price of gas took its toll, since sales were down about 25 percent from last year.

Doyle Leek and Norma Eaton are interested in comments and suggestions from all who participated and will be having a meeting soon to discuss the Sale and plans for the next one. They want to thank everyone who helped in a thousand different ways, especially those who were not hanging.

Gross Sales Clothesline Sale 2001-2008
2001 $26,500.00
2002 $31,500.00
2003 $37,800.00
2004 $32,200.00
2005 $46,000.00
2006 $47,100.00
2007 $38.200.00
2008 $29,500.00

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