Fireweed and Cow Parsnips

Another sketch, out behind the gallery in Homer. This particular combination of wildflowers is plentiful all along the roadsides at this time of year in Alaska.

10" x 8" oil on linen panel

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$150 plus shipping, unframed

The Veg Van is almost ready

What you see above is the "before decoration" view of the truck, and the next 2 images are of course the designs as they will be applied to the truck. Recognize those paintings?





What do you think, are these eye-catching enough?

If you want to look at the paintings before they became part of the design, look at my posts on 4/5, 4/19, 5/4, and 5/25 of this year.

Fran Durner, gardening writer for ADN, has just posted on her blog Talk Dirt to Me about the upcoming veg van makeover. Please click on the link and read her excellent article!

Many thanks to Alison Arians of Glacier Valley Farms CSA, and all the folks at Graphicworks and Norstar Color for their work on the scans. And a big thank-you to Fran Durner, who has been following our progress for months.

Keep an eye out for that Veg Van and please email me at info@carollambertarts.com and tell me what you think!

And while I have your attention, please come see me this weekend if you are anywhere near Fireweed Gallery in Homer. I will be doing a painting demo all day Saturday, July 18!

6 AM Return

Here is the final painting from the Homer trip. Looking over these last 4 paintings, you can see that the landscape involved a fair amount of wet ground. I really loved those patterns in the mud flats! When the fishing boat came by, heading back to harbor in the early morning light, it inspired one short and one long stroke of the brush, and the painting was done. That was a fun moment!

10" x 8" oil on linen panel

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Homer Wetlands

The is the 3rd Homer landscape from my trip there in June.

Since the last time I posted I have been up to the Arctic Ocean and into the backwoods of Talkeetna. More paintings from those places to be posted later!

This view looks out at Kachemak Bay from the Alaska Islands and Oceans Visitor Center in Homer. There are paths through the trees that go down into the lowland area. It is all part of a larger wildlife refuge, where one finds lots of birds, plants, and ecosystems to explore. I was there in the very early morning, enjoying the peaceful and soft light on the marsh.

9" x 12" oil on linen panel

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$325 plus shipping, unframed

Homer Spit, Low Tide

Here is another painting from my recent trip to Homer. Very low tides all that week in Homer!

This was begun in early evening on the spit. The Homer spit is a long, curving, narrow bit of land that stretches 4.5 miles into Kachemak Bay. It's a very distinctive land formation, which has changed much over the years due to exposure to earthquakes, tsunamis, and storms. Today the spit is a wonderful place to walk the beach, camp, view eagles and other seabirds, and have a great meal on the little boardwalk. The view across the bay is always a pleasant sight.

9" x 12" oil on linen panel

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$325 plus shipping, unframed

Kachemak Bay First Light

I just returned from my yearly trip to Homer for plein air painting. The weather was overcast on many days, but at dawn the light came in from under the clouds. For this painting, I stood in almost the same place as last year, when I painted Kachemak Dawn #2 (back a few pages on this blog), but the mood is so very different!

8" x 10" oil on linen panel

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$240 plus shipping, unframed

Channel Bouys at Rest

The last of my June Homer paintings. The supervisor of the Coast Guard bouy tender, at anchor nearby, was kind enough to allow me onto the storage yard to paint. Later, two crewmembers came to check on my progress, and took the photo. I had been out there in the wind for some time, and was chilled, but happy.
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$285 plus shipping, unframed

9" x 12" oil on linen panel

Hills Above Anchor River

A bit inland from the coast, I drove up into the ridges. A passing walker remarked that bears like to travel over these ridges too. Fortunately, the bears are more interested in fishing at this time of year!

11" x 14" oil on linen panel
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$525 plus shipping, unframed

View of Homer Spit

As I was leaving Homer, very early on Sunday, I stopped for a look back at the Homer Spit and Kachemak Bay. The sun was just slanting in under low clouds, a perfect Kenai Peninsula summer morning.


9" x 12" oil on linen panel
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Kachemak Dawn #2

This was painted about 7 AM on the same morning as #1, just a little way further down the beach. By this time, the sun had really started to light up those mountains!

8" x 10" oil on linen panel
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Kachemak Dawn #1

In the middle of June I went down to Homer to pay Fireweed Gallery a visit. This little sketch was done on the beach when only a few folks were out taking the morning air. At midsummer in Alaska, 6 AM is a perfect time to paint, before the dawn light turns to daylight.
Available at Fireweed Gallery

6" x 8" oil on linen panel
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