Imagination to Explore

You can join me for exploring your own imagination, either at my demonstration, my workshops, or gallery showings. Here are some current dates and places where I am:
Artists' Enclave, 21724 Ventura Blvd. Woodland Hills, Calif.
Sierra Design Studio, Old Mammoth Road, Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
Mammoth Friends of the Library Gallery, "Spring Fling" solo show
reception, April 26, 5:30 pm
Fremont Gallery, 812 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, Calif.
Blinn House, 160 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, Calif
reception, April 21, 6:00 pm
Ojai Art Festival, May 26, 27, Ojai, California
Demonstration of Palette Knife, San Fernando Valley Art Club, May 1, 7:00
4935 Balboa Blvd, Encino, Calif.
Workshop Palette Knife, May 19. Meet at my studio. Call 818 368 6043 or write me at RSummersB@aol.com for more information.
         Here are paintings at Limekiln Creek, where we will paint at the workshop:

Beth is painting.

Yangtze River Cruise, China

River boat with me on the Yangtze River in China, through the Xilan Gorge and then climb up Huangshan Mountain, Yellow Mountain.  The misty clouds and jagged mountains are lined with tall pines native to this area. It is a favorite spot for Chinese landscape painters. 

"Xiling Gorge Sunset" 10 x 8 oil

"Huangshan Mountain" 20 x 16 oil

You can climb the trails here and melt your imagination in the mists that wrap the pointed mountains.

 

"Huangshan Mountain" 10 x 8 oil

 

"Huangshan Mountain Mists" 10 x 8 oil

 

"Huangshan Mountain Abstract" 20 x 20 oil

 "Huangshan Mountain Sea of Clouds" 10 x 8 oil

Pasadena Historical Landmarks and the Palette Knife

Imagination is the palette knife to sculpt colors of the world around us.  Come visit these famous places in Pasadena, California with my paintings.  Then join me for a workshop at Artists' Enclave, 21724 Ventura Blvd, Woodland Hills, Calif. on March 17 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.  Call 818 884 4946 for reservations.

"Colorado Street Bridge"  24 x 30 oil

"Eden Canyon Falls"  24 x 30 oil

"Eden Canyon Trail" 24 x 30 oil

"Eden Canyon Sunset" 24 x 30 oil

"Colorado Streeet Bridge with Court of Appeals" 10 x 8 oil

"Colorado Streeet Bridge from Below" 30 x 24 oil

"Women's City Club of Pasadena"  24 x 36 oil

Bridges, Paths, and Possibilities

Bridges, Paths and Possibilities in 2012

Pasadena: "Colorado Street Bridge" and "Eaton Canyon

Here we are, 2012 with new possibilities and paths...bridges to cross...energy of color. Did you know that color is an antidepressant? All the more reason to change paintings on your walls now and then. We become desensitized to the familiar and need new stimulation. The more energy photons have when they collide and explode, the more color they give off..so join me in some new paintings, new shows this year. Or take a class in palette knife painting and explore your own creativity with me. I will lead one at Artists' Enclave Gallery Jan. 21. Call 818 884 4946 to reserve a spot.

You can also join me for my show at The Great Frame Up, 9010 Balboa Blvd, Northridge, Calif., "Nature's Nurting." The reception is from 5 to 8 on Jan. 27.
                                                                  
                                               "A Wildflower Walk"  oil diptych
                                 
                               
                 "Waves of Passion" mixed media oil and tissue

                                                  "Roll Along with Me"  oil

                                  "Bouquet of Love" mixed media oil and tissue

                                   "Fantasy Forest" mixed media oil and tissue

"Flame of Courage" mixed media oil and tissue

RURAL REMNANTS

You will enjoy scenes from rural San Fernando Valley at La Galeria Gitana, 120 N. Maclay Avenue Ste. E, San Fernando, Ca. from Nov. 19 to Dec .30, 2011. Reception is November 19 from 6 to 10 pm.

I found these places to paint in community gardens of San Fernando and farm lands of Pierce College and Minnie Palmer's Homestead Home in Chatsworth, a historical cottage. 

"Have I Got a Pumpkin for You!"  11 x 14 oil

 "Minnie Palmer's Homestead Home" 16 x 20 oil

"Come Sit in My Garden"  11 x 14 oil

"Leonis Adobe Barn" 16 x 20 oil

"Squash Fields" 11 x 14 oil

Winter's Light

Join me along with 20 other California artists to celebrate the glory of the winter season...  at the Historic Blinn House Estate, 160 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, Calif. The show runs from Nov. 1 to January 31, 2012.  The reception is November 10 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.  Here are three of my oil paitings.  "Castle Craig Skier" is from the cross country ski trails at Mammoth Lakes.  "Icy Blue Danube" is painted from my riverboat cabin window on the Danube in a snow storm, and the sunrise is actually all frosted over.

Icy Blue Danube

The third one is "Snowy Birch Trees" underneath the aurora borealis in Alaska.

Porter Ranch Creekside Studio Gallery Tour

CREEKSIDE TOUR: You can tour my creekside studio with the Valley Artists Studio Tour on Oct. 1 and 2, 2011 between 10:00am and 5 pm.   For information on how to tour the other 24 artist's studios, go to http://www.sfvartscouncil.com.or/ call me at 818 368 6043.  Here are some of my never before shown palette knife oil paintings. Also scroll through past postings here  for more adventures in places I have painted all over California and in my world travels.

"Young Mountain Lion" 16 x 20 original oil

You probably won't see this young mountain lion from my balcony, but down below at the creek there is wildlife.  I was biking along Sycamore Trail when this one courageously stared at me.  Was the mama near?  I turned around until two more bikers came along before proceeding.  I like to paint this trail, and its rare visitor made it even more exciting.   About 10 of these mountains lions live in the Santa Monicas.

"Creek at Porter Ranch" 14 x 11 original oil

I recall swimming in the creek at my grandfather's farm.  What fun these two are having right here in Limekiln Canyon in this Los Angeles suburb. I had wanted to paint the naked infant whom I found splashing there also. By the time I set up my easel, the infant had its clothes on...and besides..nudity?

"Natural Bridge" 11 x 14 original oil 

If you ride your bike up Highway 1 on the Pacific Coast out of Mugu State Park and climb behind the cliffside rocks, you will find this bridge.  But you need to get there soon.  The pounding waves may wash it down one of these days.  SOLD

"Awesome Aspen" 20 x 20 original mixed media  SOLD

These aspen are the real gold of the Sierras. The tissue and oil from my palette knife create ripples of light. 

"Courageous Cascade"  20 x 20 original mixed media SOLD

The abstract interpretation of a cascade on my creek with wrinkled tissue and palette knife oils, is from my special rockside spot where water rushes by to sing its own song.

"Leo Carrillo" 8 x 10 original oil, $325.00
 Painting at this favorite artist's spot with the California Art Club, I was reminded that a special place can never be seen the same way twice.  As with people, each of us is a non-duplicate.

                                 "Hungry Packer Lake" 11 x 14 original oil,
                                                    $395.00
This one took hiking in the high Sierras to 11,000 feet. Fortunately I had mules to carry my paintbox.



"Bloody Mountain Sunset" 11 x 14 original oil,
                  $395.00
In Mammoth Lakes I rode my bike up to this view point. Sunset makes Bloody Mountain deserving of its name. And the rich color from the aspen are glowing with my palette knife.