Art From My Easel...by Jacqueline McIntyre

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If you happen to live in the Portland Oregon area, next Saturday and Sunday, the 21st and 22nd come see the Wild Arts Festival put on by th...

My daughter took this picture with her cell phone so the image is rather blurry.  The paintings behind me are the two that won the awards at...

I was recently accepted in a juried art show that happens in early March. I was thrilled to be accepted as it's a difficult show ...

This fellow is my favorite bird, he seems to have such a funny birdy expression on his face.

 I did a few changes on this. I felt I needed to work on the hanging lights and try and give them more of a glow...not easy to do and I don...

When my Thursday painting group meets I usually work on a collage. This is the first time I have tried do almost the entire collage with pa...

Thought while I have figured out how to post again I would show the latest collage I am working on. Still needs some more work and I took ...

I entered this painting in the North Clackamas Art Guilds 16th annual show and to my amazement the painting won "BEST OF SHOW". ...

I took some pictures of crows on the beach last year and recently came across them while searching for some collage ideas. I decided to tr...

Right after I finished doing the Cosmetic Series I felt compelled to go back to painting flowers. I saw these beautiful Canna Lilies at th...

This is the last in the cosmetic still-life setups. I am so anxious to get back to doing looser still- lifes and trying my artistic hand ...

I haven't had a lot of painting time lately; but managed to finish two more of the cosmetic series. This one and the next post are th...

Last February our Daughter had some errands to do, so she brought along her Dog Pearl. She parked her car on a very busy street in Portland...

This is the first painting I did several years ago of cosmetics. I did in a class I was taking with the Artist Larry Morace . http://www.la...

This was an attempt to do the painting with more of a monochromatic feel. I should have had my head examined in attempting to do the wall pa...

This is another painting in the Cosmetic Series. The gallery I am in had a wonderful response to them and sold all but one. So, I thought I...

This was my first idea for the perfume bottles and probably the one I like the best. which one . Any opinions about the two paintings would ...

I was asked to do a commission of some perfume bottles. I have been working on some ideas and have completed two for the commission. It alwa...

It's been awhile since my last posting. I have been working on a cosmetic painting that is a commission , which is close to being done....

A note to add to this previous post. I am thrilled to say that these have sold and I have also received a commission from this series. Th...

This painting was created as a gift for my sons 40 Th birthday. Egad.....saying my son is 40 sure makes me sound old. He lives in Los Ange...

One of my favorite art forms is collage. I haven't focused on it for awhile, but when I get together with my Thursday Painters Group, I ...

My friend and fellow artist Wendy Dehart , http://www.wendydehart.com/ asked me to go out recently to paint in a local park. Our plan was ...

This is the most recent painting in the flower series. It's the first time I have worked on a canvas that is deep (1 1/2 inches ) on th...

This is another painting in the cosmetic series. I have been painting this on my own prepared gessoed Gatorboard panels. It's been a ch...

I thought I'd give myself a break from the flower series and start another series with a different subject that I thought would be fun ...

The top picture is the pastel sketch I worked from. I originally tried painting the intense yellow and greens I had in the sketch, but fe...