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
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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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