Lisa McShane Art

Study for Wheat 1. ©2011 Lisa McShane. Oil on Linen. 8" x 8". This Friday, 6-8pm, is the opening of Invitational Small Works Exhibit at Roby King Galleries on Bainbridge. If you're in the area I hope you'll stop by! Study for Wheat 1 is one of several small studies I spent months with over the spring, summer and into September. I paint a great many paintings of fields, especially wheat fields, and have struggled with them. Deborah Paris made some suggestions last spring and I diligently went to work trying them out. Study for Wheat 1 was a back and forth process of opaque paint with thin, transparent paint glazed over and wiped off.

Road, 3 Trees in the Palouse. Oil on Canvas. 30" x 40". This is one of my top fav paintings that I'm hanging in Walla Walla at Syzygy Wines today. I love this painting! It's been hanging in my office for the past year and looking at it just makes me happy. Why? Well, it's got a road, so there's that. If you've seen my work, you know there's something about roads... And not just any road but a black, smooth and perfect road. (Mars Black.) I love the composition with a sliver of blue at the top, the simple forms and abstracted fields. The three trees at the highway intersection with all the wonderful symbolism that they bring to mind. The colors. These are the things that I enjoy about this painting. And yes, it's for sale :). Syzygy Wines - it will be there from May through July. Stop by! And - bonus - I just got word that the jury accepted my application to the Whatcom Artists Studio Tour. This is the first two weekends of October. I'm exc...

View of the 3rd floor gallery. My paintings will go on the wall on the right, you can see Anacortes Gap 2 on the floor ready to hang. Shirley Ericksen's fabulous Raven sculpture is visible. Steve Satushek's cool paintings on metal on the left. More on his website here . Loomis Hall's group exhibit, 'Olympic Small and Large' part 2 is opening tonight at 6:00. For hours and directions, click on the gallery here . Blaine's newspaper, the Northern Light, has a great article on this. My apologies for the mediocre photos. Apparently if you don't recharge your Nikon batteries every once in a while you're stuck with the iPhone.

Blue Horse Gallery on March 2nd, 2010 Why yes, photos taken with an iPhone are generally terrible. But here's a shot of my paintings installed at the Blue Horse Gallery in preparation for Friday's 6 pm opening. To the right, in the entry, are Ruthie V's paintings looking great, to the left are Mary Froderberg and Valerie Collymore's luscious paintings are farther to my left, out of the shot.