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Palette Art League League Winner Best of Show

 

 Kathe Altazan Art

My studio will be open for you to see my new summer paintings and more on display this week during The Art Odyssey artists studio tour. Visit Thurs. - Sat., 10am-5pm, Sept. 26-28, 2024. Hope to see you then! Or visit my  online storefront/gallery at www.KatheAltazan.com

I along with 28 other area artists from the Mountain Home, Arkansas  area as well as Yellville, Flippin, Bull Shoals, Lakeview, Cotter, Gassville, Salesville, and Gamaliel will open our studio/galleries to the public. Maps to our studios are available online at www.TheArtOdyssey.com, at the Baxter County Library and other local businesses.

Summer Paintings 2024

I hope you enjoy viewing my summer paintings!

For complete painting descriptions and sales information visit www.KatheAltazan.com. 
Or, click on each PAINTING TITLE to open it in my online storefront/gallery. Thank you!

Left: 
Triple Falls Jasper, AR  |  24x36” | Oil on 1.5”deep gallery wrapped canvas

Right:
Waterfall,Dry Run Creek Norfork, AR  |  18x24” | Oil on 7/8” cradled hardboard panel

and below:

Top Row:

Left: Point of Return, Dogwood Trail  Lakeview, AR |14x11” | Oil on 3/4” cradled hardboard panel
Right: Dogwoods, Lakeside Trail | 11x14” | Oil on 3/4” cradled hardboard panel

Bottom Row:
Left: Heron’sCove Mountain Home, AR  |  12x12” | Oil on 3/4” cradled hardboard panel
Right: ReflectivePool Jasper, AR  |  10x10” | Oil on 1.5”deep gallery wrapped canvas

Painting Waterfalls Plein Air

August found me painting plein air during a workshop led by Kathleen B. Hudson at Cumberland Falls, KY and lodging at the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park's Dupont Lodge. During the 3-day workshop  Kathleen demonstrated her en plein air oil painting techniques atop the fall's viewing platforms and  then gave feedback as the 14 member class painted on their own.

 

Many of us also gathered at the falls at night for the Moonbow viewing - the only location in the Western hemisphere where this phenomenon occurs. Kathleen even set up her easel and painted it! Students who attended also  received Kathleen's "Painting Water in Oil" 44-page workshop handbook detailing her drawing, value studies, color mixing, block-in, brushwork, and edgework. She emphasizes that observing the landscape and doing small studies en plein air are essential for accurate value ranges, color shifts (especially in shadows), and distant atmospheric effects.

My event paintings included some small thumbnails, an 8x10 and a 9x12.

Also, I didn't photograph the Moonbow but another student shared a photo.

Spring Paintings 2024

New paintings this spring included lakes, creeks, waterfalls and the roads leading to them.

Top row: left to right: 
Big Creek, near Heber Springs, AR
20x16" | Oil on 1.5" gallery wrapped canvas

Livingston Creek, near Sylamore AR just snorth of Mtn. View
20x16" | Oil on 1.5"deep gallery wrapped canvas

Bottom row: left to right:

Road Less Taken at Cotter, AR
24x12" | Oil on 1.5"deep cradled hardboard panel

Ozark Mountain Vista near Mt. Judea, AR

24x12" | Oil on 1.5"deep cradled hardboard panel

Below: Top row: left to right: 

Magnolia Falls Pool, at Pettigrew, AR

24x18" | Oil on cradled hardboard panel

Dry Run Creek Pool near Norfork in Baxter County

12x16" | Oil on cradled hardboard panel, framed

Bottom row: left to right:

Buffalo River at Roark Bluff, Ponca, AR at Steel Creek Campground

12x16" | Oil on 1.5"deep gallery wrapped canvas

Sunrise Float, on Arkansas’ Bull Shoals Lake.

10x10” | Oil on 1.5”deep gallery wrapped canvas

All paintings are for sale in my online storefront/gallery at www.KatheAltazan.com.

 Click on each painting's title for its full description.

Email me at KatheAltazan@gmail.com for an appointment to visit my studio.

Thanks for viewing!