Worktable Wednesday

Mile High Color 22x60" ©

Roughing in new mountain image, dreaming of the snow and rain shower those clouds dropped during the winter last year. It wasn't much but it was glorious all the same. It made the plants perk up and give a great show of sparkling color as they drank in the moisture.

Friday Easel

Les Deux Gingembres 12x12"

 

Spending time with the pooches today.

Thursday Easel

Today I'm working in the Utah Desert, visiting Hite Country in my studio while listening to audible books. It sure feels like the desert with this early heat.

 Hite Country, Utah 12x48" in progress ©2015

Worktable Wednesday - at the easel

...well, trying to be. Plenty of distractions to go around this fall and not enough time in the studio. Still.... I'm working this week and starting new paintings for upcoming deadlines. These are just the first pass, getting the drawings right before really diving in.

Mule Deer, Dixie National Forest,Utah ©

Wee Birdie ©

California Bushtit ©

Worktable Wednesday - Dreaming of Coastal Fog

in progress, variations on a theme ©2014

Worktable Wednesday - Summer shore

Sea Grass Patterns 48x24" ©

On the easel today, in progress still,
but making my way to the finish line.

Worktable Wednsday - Summer & Beloved

Newly started ode to summer and beloved, 

departed pooch, Athena.

Beloved 24x24" ©N Strasburg

Worktable Wednesday - pooches

In the Meadow ©2014 12x12"

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On the easel today, new winter water vertical

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Back to the easel...

snow path, low tide, foggy shore, roiling clouds

after a printmaking workshop using copper drypoint.

Wilson's Warbler in the shrub

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Spring Fog {in progress} 48x24"
©2014 N Strasburg

Worktable Wednesday 2014

A new year, a new start. 

New oil sketches on the easel.

It feels good to be back at work.

Wintery Wednesday

 

Last week was a big week, New Terrain was dismantled, dispersed and the remaining paintings tucked away in the studio while new work continues to be made. Mountains and snow have not been worked out of my system yet and what a perfect time to celebrate snow paintings but the beginning of winter. Craig Krull in Santa Monica has mounted three shows celebrating winter with a few of my small paintings in the mix.

Stuido with New Terrain images

Winter Greys 12x12" © 2013

Craig Krull Gallery presents A Little Snow....

Showing at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica through January 11, 2014

Also opening last week, 100 GRAND at Sullivan Goss. 100 paintings under a thousand dollars for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. It's a visual feast with something for everyone.

Summer Light 12 x 12" ©2013

100 GRAND

Sullivan Goss

11 East Anapamu, Santa Barbara

Show runs through February 2, 2014

New work includes more of my mountain getaways, more animals and yes, the beautiful wintery seashore is also prominent. One of my favorite times of the year is winter at the seaside, the light on the ocean, the clear blue of the sky reflected on the water and the extreme tides. It's difficult to decide what to paint first!

Fall Willows {in progress}

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Critter Crush

Island Kit Fox 12x12" ©2013

Working towards my next show with Sullivan Goss in Santa Barbara. The show will open First Thursday in September 2013. Stay tuned for more details.

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On the easel today:

Flora and Fauna

Inspiration from the mountains. Wild Santa Barbara Milk Vetch {Astragalus Trichopodus}and a most elusive/evasive coyote, Canis Latrans or otherwise known as the American Jackal, brush wolf or prairie wolf.

SB Milk Vetch 12x12" ©2013 {in process}

Canis Latrans 12x12" ©2013

News from the front

One busy elf here, where to begin? Printing, posting, stamping, painting, travel.

New etchings will be arriving at Pierre Lafond Upstairs by the end of the week.

Sullivan Goss 100 GRAND Exhibition opens First Thursday in December.

100 GRAND, 2012 (100 WORKS OF ART FOR $1,000 OR LESS)
OPENING: 1st THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 from 5-8pm
SULLIVAN GOSS, 7 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara, CA

RUNS:    December 6, 2012 - Feburary 3, 2013

WORKS AVAILABLE FOR PRESALE: Thursday, December 6 at 9AM

Sullivan Goss is pleased to announce the gallery’s fourth annual 100 GRAND exhibition, with 100 works of art being offered at $1,000 or less.

100 GRAND will feature work by: Benjamin Anderson, Sean Anderson, Tony Askew, Ken Bortolazzo, Phoebe Brunner, Dorothy Churchill-Johnson, Connie Connally, David Cooley, Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Joann Dufau, Pamela Enticknap, Noah Erenberg, Martha Mayer Erlebacher, Peggy Ferris, Jon Francis, Rafael Gaete, Nancy Gifford, Robin Gowen, Amanda Grandfield, Holli Harmon, Tracey Sylvester Harris, Kristen Hawkes, Cynthia James, Scott Kahn, Masha Keating, Dan Levin, Mark Lozano, Susan McDonnell, Mehosh, David Molesky, Julie Montgomery, Jennifer Moses, Brad Nack, Ken Nack, Zoe Nathan, John Nava, Zack Paul, Rafael Perea de la Cabada, Angela Perko, Chris Peters, Hank Pitcher, Ian Putnam, Paula Re, Robert Redfield, Maria Rendon, Brad Reyes, Lindsey Ross, Jourdan Ross, Blakeney Sanford, Caren Satterfield, Elena Siff, Leslie Lewis Sigler, David Skinner, Barry Spacks, Nicole Strasburg, Marlene Struss, Makeda Tekle-Smith, Jane Taylor, James David Thomas, Susan Tibbles, Dug Uyesaka, Sarah Vedder, Deborah Veldkamp, Daniel Warth, Roe Ann White, Monica Wiesblott

Worktable Wednesday

It's astonishing that anything is being completed in my studio at present ... husband Bill has other ideas about what I should be doing with my time... like helping put the new roof on. YES I am a roofer by day and painter/printer by night. IF, that is, I can still lift my arms to hold a brush or even stand on my wobbly legs after a day on the pitched roof.

Still... there are shows coming, the fall is full and deadlines approach so there is no help for it but to suck it up and keep working despite the weary joints and muscles.

Shows on the horizon:

15 year anniversary show at FRAME with the lovely and fabulous Elaine Esbeck. Opening October, 11, 2012.  {that's 10/11/12 people} Announcements forthcoming.

Annual 100 GRAND show at Sullivan Goss opening First Thursday in December.

New work will be arriving at Sundance in the coming months and the possibility of something for the annual Small Images show at the local City College for October.

There is certainly plenty to be getting on with and many stamps yet to be made for the holiday crush that is also creeping up. I know, now I've gone and said it, Christmas is coming. Ho ho ho.

Don't forget to stop in and see all the new shows at Sullivan Goss. Elemental: Water, the Fall Salon, Ken Bortolazzo Equipose and Martha Erlebacher.

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Today is an easel day.

Worktable Wednesday - Printing Again

At long last, the sun. I was beginning to lament that we would be socked in fog for another 4 weeks so I high tailed it up to the mountains where I was sure to be able to expose my SUN plates so that I could start printing.

Sure enough, the second day home it's been nothing but beautiful, bright shining days. Still, I have plates to print which makes me happy. Dog prints no less. I do have more landscape images in the works but the dog obsession has not diminished one iota, so why not... dog prints!

Gone to the dogs

Scenes from my studio... all paintings in progress. 

I've become a dog lady and I ain't too proud to admit it!

Skye at the beach ©2012 N Strasburg

Snow dogs © 2012 N Strasburg

Molly on the Turkish rug ©2012 N Strasburg