Mammoth Lakes, California Art Festival

Come to lovely Mammoth Lakes this summer for the Art Festival at Sam's Woods Site on September 1, 2, 3, 2012. You can see a wide range of my paintings from all sorts of places and enjoy the cool summer air of Mammoth. Meanwhile also view my work at Sierra Design Studio, Mammoth Lakes; Blinn House, Pasadena; Artists' Enclave, Woodland Hills; ImagineOnMainStreet, in Ventura. My workshop in palette knife Aug. 24 is at ImagineOnMainStreet. Or just scroll through other of my postings for whatever experiences you might like to enjoy wherever I have traveled. To find out prices of these paintings or others, contact me at RSummersB@aol.com.

Meanwhile, come taste my watermelon!

A Slice of Watermelon

                                                            
                                                               An Iris I Can

                                                        My Window Box in Rome

A Street in Nice

                                                                   Cyrus, Greece Windmill

Eton Falls

                                                                  Colorado Streeet Bridge

                                                        San Fernando Mission

Fireworks

Fresh Picking Corn

Fresh Strawberries

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.