oils | Cathryn Powell

• Backlit Aspens

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". A note regarding the price difference between this piece and the other 9" x 12" works; this is framed in a custom made teak frame that is finished with spar varnish and has an oak fillet, so the pr…

• Camel Rock

  Oil, Panel, 9" x 12". Before my mother passed away in 2012 I used to love to take her on girls only trips to our favorite places. One such place was Patricks Point, where we got a room at a cute bed and breakfast lodge…

• Duffy Boat

  Oil, Panel, 8" x 10". When I lived in Southern California I was a msember of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. They had an event sponsored by the Deborah Hughes Gallery on Balboa Island called Fresh Paint. Each…

• Red Cottage

  Oil, Panel, 12" x 9". This is one of the little cottages available for lodging at the Crystal Cove State Park south of Newport Beach, California. The steep hillside behind the cottage was covered with bright orange, yel…

• Dancer

  Oil, canvas pad, 18 x 24. I've decided to begin posting some of the paintings from the figure painting class that I took, taught by Phyllis Shafer. Phyllis is an amazing teacher, and I encourage anyone who has the oppor…

• Reclining Nude

  Oil, canvas pad, 14" x 24". Here is another assignment from my figure painting class taught by Phyllis Shafer. Last week I posted "Dancer", from the same class, painted using the limited Zorn palette. "Reclining Nude",…

• Crouching Man

  Oil, canvas pad, 24" x 18". Another figure study from the figure painting class taught by Phyllis Shafer, again in the Zorn palette, and using the same online source for the image. After discussion in class about Richar…

• Face Of Covid

  Oil, canvas pad, 10" x 20". This week's post is our assignment using the primary triad palette. Again using am image from online for educational purposes. Definitly seeing improvement in my painting skills, and confiden…

• Reclining Nude #2

  Oil, canvas pad, 16" x 23". Here's another Reclining Nude from my class taught be Phyllis Shafer, this time using the primary triad palette. Again, not for sale because it is painted on student grade canvas pad, and the…

• Self Portrait

  Oil, canvas pad, 23" x 17". This assignment was a lot of fun, limited secondary triad palette, ivory black, titanium white, cadmium orange, violet, and viridian green. I decided to take an assortment of selfies with my…

• Bill

  Oil, canvas pad, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2. I had decided to paint my family for the final four assignments in the online figure painting class taught by Phyllis Shafer. The first of these was my husband for the mid term assignme…

• Sanctuary

  Oil, canvas pad, 22" x 16". We followed the Burr Trail within a crack in the earth. The canyon walls grow higher the further we travel. A copse of cottonwood trees stand like sentinels obscuring the entrance to the slot…