Lily Pond Series

Water Lily Prints

Featuring my Water Lily Pond Series. All of these images were created from photos of our backyard pond.

These and more are available in your choice of sizes and style of print at Dana Patterson Art Photography

California Coastal Art Photography

I am sponsoring a page at Fine Art America for beautiful images of California's Coast.
California Coastal

Please drop by and create something beautiful - canvas wrap, prints, framed/matted, in almost any size you would like.

FAA - Fine Arts America

Fine Arts America Profile
Clicking on this link will let you review, comment, follow, create prints, and even LIKE my work.

Have fun!

New Webstore Open Now!

Finally  took a deep breath and opened a web-based marketing site to sell my artwork.  Beginning with photographs, I plan to add images of the original pieces I still have.  Won't you stop by and view my galleries?

http://dana-patterson.artistwebsites.com/news.html

Ten Days To Cruise

Getting ready for a thirty (30!) day cruise around the Horn of South America. Got the drawing and watercolor pencils packed? CHECK
Beginning to feel excited about all of this and sharing some beautiful photographs of tropical places, penquins, the Ends of the Earth, and friendly people from villages to big cities.

Pastel Project No. 2

Copy a portrait of a favorite artist. So, I chose one. I kinda wish I hadn't chosen this one, but anything would have given me trouble. All-in-all, I learned a lot more about pastels and it was fun.

After Rembrandt (my version)

8x10, Artagain black paper, Prismacolor nupastels and (lol) Rembrandt soft pastels.

Detail from the original portrait (1659)

Pastel Projects

Started in with a pastel group for this Fall. I don't really know much about pastels and am willing to get dusty to learn more about the medium.

Assignment One is a self-portrait. I read somewhere that it is a good idea to do one every year. Probably like eating your vegetables or exercising- - good for you, but not really that much fun sometimes.

PastelSelf 2010, 11x14, 140 lb. cold press Canson

Nupastel (need a bigger set of these), Rembrandt soft pastels, and some other kind of pastels I have, but don't remember how I got them. This was an interesting way to paint as, in order for my old, nearly blind self to see, I set up a mirror reflecting another mirror in front of me while I was painting. (And, yes, I do look kinda slack-jawed like that when painting. I see, now, that one of my eyebrows could use some blending, too.

This was an arduous experience for a relatively short, but very intense, drawing/painting session. It seems that after getting the basic colors in the right places, you sort of "sculpt" the pigment into place and push it around.