Teri's Page

When I took my third semester of drawing, we were able to use pastels. I remember these pears were being difficult, and so was the pastel paper ... it was full of pastel and wouldn't take anymore pigment. I had to scrape some off and then could finish the painting. I loved using color, and the pastels were buttery and rich. I was in love with them.

This is my first painting in Beginning Painting class. We set up a still life (using a stuffed animal) and painted it. It was really scary to put the first oil paint on the canvas. But, once placed, daub-by-daub the rest was done almost as if by itself.

One semester, I took a digital art class from John Fehringer (his web site here).
This image was done with the help of Photoshop. I learned a little about that program during this class and we were required to begin our own art blog.

This is mine:

Teri's Art Blog

These are paintings done in Painting class taught by Jane Terzis. The top one is from a photo of Cape Perpetua on the Oregon Coast.

The next painting is also from a photo of an area near Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It is titled Klondike Autumn.

Plein air painting. There is a local group who go out each Saturday all year to paint, and they are called the Plein Rein Painters.
http://pleinrein.blogspot.com/

This painting, Sentinel Tree at Eagle Beach, was done en plein air on a beautiful June day.

This fall semester, 2010, I took Painting again and this is one of my first paintings, a small 10 x 8" study titled Crimson Clover. I like how the sky turned out. This was painted on Wallis sandpaper.