One Morning in Cayucos California impressionist seascape oil painting

 

"One Morning in Cayucos"    8 x 10 inch oil painting

This plein air painting was painted on location in Cayucos, California, at the beach house of a friend. It was a cool day, with gentle wave action. This painting is available for sale. If you're interested ... click this link to write me. See more of my paintings on my website.

Oak Tree Forest California impressionist landscape plein air painting

Trail to Springtime, 9 x 12 inches, plein air California landscape oil painting on linen panel

"Trail to Springtime"

9 x 12 inches

Oil on linen plein air painting

This California impressionist plein air landscape was painted at the Tejon Ranch, on a quiet trail in the middle of an oak forest. The fresh spring greens and yellows were incredible, mixing with wildflowers and other colorful plants.
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Yosemite Falls Summer oil painting - Sierra Nevada Art

Yosemite Falls, Summer

Original 24 x 18 inch oil painting

on canvas

Yosemite is one of my favorite painting destinations. After painting numerous versions of the falls in a horizontal format (seeing the scope of the valley and meadow in the foreground,) I decided it was time to do a vertical painting featuring the upper falls. 

Yosemite Creek feeds the falls from the top, and after a fall of almost 2500 feet, the flow joins the Merced River.

Not this year, but perhaps next year, I hope to visit Yosemite in autumn to capture some of the dazzling color of the turning leaves.

This painting is available for sale now. If you are in the Southern California area, you are welcome to see it in person, please write.

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Eaton Canyon Stream - California impressionist landscape stream oil painting - plein air

 

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"Eaton Canyon Stream" 9 x 12 inch oil painting

Eaton Canyon Nature Preserve, Altadena, California
(Near Pasadena)

 Eaton Canyon, near Pasadena, California is a favorite plein air location for me. This painting shows the seasonal stream that runs through it in a "good" rain year. California live oaks grow along the banks, along with willows, sycamores and many other riparian California natives. Interested in this painting? Click this link to write me. karen@karenwinters.com

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Quiet Day Carmel Bay oil painting, California seascape

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Quiet Day, Carmel Bay

11 x 14 seascape oil painting

This is a painting of Carmel Bay, on the Monterey Peninsula, on a quiet day. I love to paint in this area - the sea shows so many different moods and the colors are constantly changing. The day I was there, the sea was like glass. Beautiful, colorful glass.
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California Poppy Time - Antelope Valley Oil Painting by Karen Winters

"Poppy Time, Lancaster, California"

Original California poppy landscape oil painting
11 x 14 inches, oil on plein air panel

Very soon, the poppy fields of Lancaster, California will be in full bloom. The Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve is a wonder to behold, as long as it doesn't get too cold or breezy (then, the poppies close up, protectively.)

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Yosemite Valley Oil Painting from Wowona Tunnel by Karen Winters

SOLD, but I have more Yosemite paintings, see links below.

This original artwork oil painting of Yosemite Valley is from the viewpoint of the Wowona Tunnel. It's a classic view, showing the sculptural beauty of El Capitan on the left, Half Dome in the center and Bridalveil falls on the right.

12 x 16 inches
Oil painting on canvas.

This is not a mass produced copy. It's an original oil painting by a California impressionist painter - my work is shown in museums all over the state.


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Yosemite Valley
original oil painting
12 x 16 inches

The view of Yosemite Valley from the Wowona tunnel, as an original California landscape oil painting.

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Laguna Beach Painting - Divers Cove - Heisler Park

Diver's Cove, Laguna Beach
8 x 10 oil on linen laid on plein air panel

The incoming surf made mist rise at Diver's Cove in Laguna Beach, as seen from my viewpoint in Heisler Park.

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Pasadena Art: Colorado Street Bridge Landscape Painting - The Bridge Aglow

"The Bridge Aglow"
(The Colorado Street Bridge from a vantage point near the Federal Court of Appeals, Arroyo Seco)

SOLD

11 x 14 inches
plein air painting


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In October 2010, I had the opportunity to paint the Colorado Street Bridge from the vantage point a little south of the Federal Courthouse on the east side of the Arroyo Seco, at a private home.

The late afternoon light grazing the bridge created a peaceful mood. The foreground oak tree provided a natural frame for the scene.

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The Way of the Oak - California Impressionist Landscape Eaton Canyon Oil Painting

The Way of the Oak

12 x 16 oil on canvas

A stately old oak arches over one of California's most popular trails at Eaton Canyon, in Altadena. The trail beckons the wanderer on a beautiful spring day.

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California Hillside Landscape Oil Painting - Those Fields, Those Hills

 
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An old pepper tree, a typical California sight, leans over a dusty summer hillside in California. The spring grasses have turned dusty brown, but wildflowers are still flourishing.

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California impressionist painting - Landscape Oil Painting - Gaviota Springtime - California Art Club Gold Medal Show 100th Anniversary 2011

 

Gaviota Springtime

11 x 14 oil on linen plein air panel

SOLD in the 100th Anniversary of the California Art Club

Gold Medal Show, 2011, Pasadena Museum of California Art

This painting was exhibited and sold at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in Pasadena, California. It was also featured in an editorial article in the April 2011 issue of American Art Collector magazine.

It represents a graceful eucalyptus tree, arching over a springtime meadow near the coastline town of Gaviota, north of Santa Barbara. This central coast California painting is in the spirit of the early California impressionist painters such as Granville Redmond and others, who captured the natural beauty of the state and were the founders of the California Art Club 100 years ago.

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Colorado Street Bridge Pasadena Painting - by Karen Winters

Colorado Street Bridge Painting - Morning Swim in the Arroyo
Originally uploaded by kwint

SOLD

Some people are surprised to learn that there's water under the Colorado Street Bridge in the Arroyo Seco. It's true. And waterfowl love to swim there, depending upon the season.

This 12 x 16 original oil painting is sold but I have many other paintings of the bridges. You are welcome to see them in my studio in La Canada, by appointment.


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Bishop Peak Oil Painting, San Luis Obispo, Central Coast California Art

"Farm at Bishop Peak"
San Luis Obispo, Central Coast
oil painting
14 x 18 inches

When I was painting in San Luis Obispo County earlier this spring with the California Art Club, I was especially attracted to the numerous large peaks that rise from the city of San Luis Obispo out to the sea, the last of which is Morro Rock. Bishop Peak (sometimes called Bishop's Peak) is one of the Nine Sisters. Technically they are "volcanic plugs," and the volcanoes that rose above them are long gone. Bishop Peak is the tallest of the formations, and it was noted in the diary of John Muir who wrote:

"The trail brings the traveler suddenly in sight of
Bishop Peak ... The town is fairly encircled with beautiful hills...
the one just named being most conspicuous."

The soft afternoon light and atmospheric mist from the sea made this a picture of rural tranquility that held great appeal for me.

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Pasadena Pond - Ducks in the Arroyo Seco below the Colorado Street Bridge - oil painting

Arroyo Ducks
(by Pasadena's Colorado Street Bridge)
12 x 16
oil painting on linen panel
SOLD

Cars may travel overhead on Pasadena's Colorado Street Bridge and the 134 Freeway, but below, in the Arroyo Seco, ducks calmly paddle in ponds as they most likely always have.

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California impressionist landscape oil painting - Arroyo Seco, Pasadena

Snow on the San Gabriels
(Federal Courthouse with view of the Arroyo Seco)
12 x 16 oil on canvas

The winter storms, which may now be over, often leave rare snowcaps on our local mountains - for a few days. I took advantage of one of these unusual scenes last month. This is a view I have painted before, in the autumn when the sycamores are in full color - and will likely paint again through the years with different weather and seasonal looks.


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California impressionist landscape painting - Crystal Crag, Mammoth Lakes, CA

SOLD
Crystal Crag (view from Lake Mary)

Mammoth Lakes, California

5 x 7"

Oil

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The noble granite structure of Crystal Crag can be seen from Lake Mary, one of the Mammoth Lakes in this popular California recreational area. The summer cabins are closed now as everyone is in line for the ski lifts.

Lake Mary, Crystal Crag, Mammoth Lakes, California, landscape, snowscape, snow painting, winter, Karen Winters

California impressionist landscape painting - Upper Arroyo Seco - Pasadena area

Southern California San Gabriel Landscape Arroyo Seco Oil Painting
Originally uploaded by kwint

View of the San Gabriels (Upper Arroyo Seco)
14 x 18 oil on canvas

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Romantic Rose Garden Oil Painting at Twilight - Descanso Gardens

Descanso Rose Garden at Twilight - romantic garden oil painting - Karen Winters
Originally uploaded by kwint

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Descanso Rose Garden at Twilight - romantic garden oil painting - Karen Winters

Descanso Garden Evening
12 x 16 oil on canvas

Late afternoon light falls on a rose garden path. Old shrub roses and perennials shimmer in this formal garden setting.

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Rose Garden Oil Painting - Descanso Gardens artist Karen Winters

Rose Garden Oil Painting - Descanso Gardens artist Karen Winters
Originally uploaded by kwint

Rose Garden Oil Painting - Descanso Gardens artist Karen Winters

12 x 16
oil on canvas

Descanso Rose Garden with Crepe Myrtle bush

Will be exhibited April 18-19 at Descanso Gardens, LCF, Calif.

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