Long_Painter
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Energetic & colorful landscape paintings for those building a contemporary collection capturing all the best feelings of travel. Purchase originals here: Chrislongpainter.com
A plein air painting of the sunrise from my front yard this morning. The Canadian wildfire haze was so thick I could just look directly at the sun. 8”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel (plein air)
The photo references for this piece were shot on a Canon film camera (that I received for free, so you know it produced terrible photographs) and are essentially dark gray. The bright color is how I prefer to decorate that memory. . 12”x12” Oil on cradled wood panel Available on my website.
Harbor Study No.21 11”x14” Oil on cradled wood panel Available on my website.
I wrote a while ago that I was working through my Montana reference folder. Still at it. This one is from a morning hike during the summer Canadian wildfires a few years back. Everything we had in our RV smelled like woodsmoke even after we travelled south to NM in the autumn. . 8”x8” oil
I had gone for a blue hour dog walk in our coastal Oregon RV campground and took the road down into the tent camping area. Most sites had lots of lights and sounds, but some were quiet like this one, and it made me feel like a Bigfoot watching in the darkness. . Solo Camping 24”x12” oil on canvas
When the setting sun is perfectly blocked from your eyes by trees- but only for a second before you’re forced to squint again. . Though Down This Road We’ve Been So Many Times 8”x10” oil on wood panel
Could’ve gotten away with fewer brush marks, but I think they work to move the composition back towards abstraction. . Harbor Study No.20 10”x8” oil Available on my website.
New small oil studies from this past holiday weekend. Available on my website.
The sixth painting in my “feels like my 90’s bike rides listening to Pink Floyd cassettes on a Walkman” series. I made nine in the first series last summer, so I have three more to go in July. . You Are Only Coming Through In Waves 10”x10” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available on my website
Good things always come in threes. Buc-ee’s III 6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available on my website.