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"Placerita Canyon Evening"© #santaclarita #landscape #laurawambsgans
With a little rain, spring greens are popping up in the canyon. After so many months of muted gray brush the bright green is almost shocking and clearly a delight for all living things. Oil, 16" X...
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"A New Day"© #WhidbeyIsland #oilpainting #Wambsgans
This studio painting was created using the plein air painting as the reference. This weekend Saga Gallery in Monrovia is opening an exhibit of the gallery artists work, plein air to studio paintings....
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"Desert Beauty"©
At the recent Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival I had the opportunity to demonstrate oil painting during the art show. This little painting was the result and easy to paint while talking to all the...
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"Along the Pacific Coast"©
Over the last few weeks I painted twice in the area of Carmel, California. Part of that time was during the Carmel Art Festival, which hosts a plein air competition for four days. 60 artists have two...
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"Lingering Warmth"© #HansenDam #wambsgans
In a couple of weeks I am flying to Vermont and driving up to the Adriondacks with my gear to paint the classic scenes of the Hudson River group, from long ago. In this painting I was thinking about...
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"Summertime" and traveling with oils....
For this painting I experimented with Gamblin's Fastmatte oil paints. I wanted to see how the paint would work, because I was considering taking Fast Matte paint on my trip to the Adrirondacks, since...
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Painting in the Adirondacks
Lower Saint Regis Lake, 18X24, OilLast week I traveled with Marian Fortunati to upper state New York, deep in the Adirondack's to paint in the 2015 Publishers Invitational. The variety of the color...
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"Julia Pfeiffer Falls"© #Bigsurart
The Julia Pfeiffer Falls has been an iconic location for photographers and painters for decades. Usually the scene is captured in the late afternoon, with the falls and cliff face warmly lit. I...
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"Vasquez Rocks"© #vasquezrocks #laurawambsgans
The last 10 days I have been painting pieces for an upcoming show of historic and contemporary landscape paintings of the Santa Clarita Valley and nearby areas. Vasquez Rocks is a location that many...
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Ventura Plein Air Competition 2015
Ventura View, 12X16, oilThe city of Ventura has held an Artwalk for decades and this year added a plein air competition to the event. Artists were invited to paint for a week and then display their...
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"Classic Sierra Hwy View"©
As you drive from Santa Clarita to Agua Dulce the road winds though this landscape. The terrain is dry and roughed with a sprinkling of ranches, a famous cafe and a very nice French Restaurant, named...
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"Approaching Winter Storm", © #SantaClarita #laurawambsgans
For the next couple of months this painting, along with 4 others are hanging in the College of the Canyons Art Gallery. The exhibit is called Plein Air, California Landscape painting and has some very...
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"Pacific Morning Glow"© #seascape
24" X 30, Oil on CanvasToday I am framing up paintings for the Thousand Oak Art Festival this weekend. This painting, "Pacific Morning Glow", was an experiment in layering paint, allowing the rosy...
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"High Sierra Trail", ©
A few weeks ago a small group, known as PAC6 Painters, packed into Lake Ediza to paint for a week. All of the words that John Muir wrote came to life visually on that trip. We saw scenes that took...
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"The Soloist"©
"The Soloist", was painted on a whim for a student wondering about how to paint the confusion of leaves and branches in a tree. Trees are one of my most favorite subjects because the possibilities...
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"Canyon Morning" and "Canyon Evening", © #placeritacanyon #laurawambsgans
"Canyon Evening", 11X14, Oil"Canyon Morning", 11X14, OilAlready painting for next years shows, these two paintings are headed to the Hillside Gallery in Claremont, California in February. The show...
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"First Snow"©
Christmas day I started this painting and shot the process for an upcoming January workshop. It seems to help people if they can see how you painted the piece from the start and they realize how truly...
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"Double Take Show at Hillside Gallery"
"Alpine Glow", 16" X 20", Oil"A Break in the Storm", 16" X 20", OilIn a couple of weeks I am showing with PAC6 at Hillside Fine Art in Claremont, with a show that has a very unusual concept. Here was...
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"Sycamores"©
This group of Sycamore live in the Placerita Canyon Nature Center, just down the road from my home. The California drought has been rough on all the plant life and this years rains have brought...
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"Yosemite Falls"©
Last January while staying in the lodge at the base of Yosemite Falls it snowed all night, blanketing the world in pristine shades of white. This was the view as I walked down the lodge staircase,...
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"Around the Bend on Hwy One"
One of the advantages of camping along the Big Sur coast, is that you can stumble out of your tent as the sunlight comes streaming though the mountains at dawn. Without another soul around, accompanied...
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"Pismo Beach Dunes"©
Very early in the morning the plant life on the dunes take on a violet hue to match the cold breeze off the ocean. It is so very quiet, even the waves seem like a hundred miles away. Standing there...
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Carmel Art Festival and plein air painting.....
Plein air painting or painting on location has become a "thing" for landscape artists. All the talk, the term plein air, has trickled down to the masses. Competitions, workshops and so on have...
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"Falls Gold"©
"Falls Gold", 20" X 24", oilNatures natural color harmony is difficult to resist. Lavender and hues of blue are the perfect backdrop for falls golden leaves.Subscribe to A Painting A Day by Laura...
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"Salt River Cliffs"©
18" X 24", oilLast week, I took a course from Mark Boedges. A terrific Vermont landscape painter, who studies with Richard Schmid. We painted everyday in the Arizona desert, along the Salt River in...
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