Lisa McShane Art

Towards Bow. ©2013 Lisa McShane. Oil on Canvas. 30"x30". Winter in the northwest. This is the view to the west in Skagit. I don't know why, but the sky under the clouds is often yellow (when we can catch a glimpse.)

Blanchard Dusk. ©2011 Lisa McShane. Oil on Canvas. 30" x 40". Looking east across Samish Bay at dusk with the toe of Blanchard Mountain on the right and flooded fields in the foreground. Blanchard Mountain is a special place. It's the only place along the coast where the Cascades reach the sea. From the top of Blanchard Mountain you can see the entire San Juan archipelago to the east and to the west, Mt. Baker and the Twin Sisters.

Blanchard Mountain. Oil on Linen Panel. 6" x 8". This is a small study for a couple of larger paintings of Blanchard Mountain from the east side, near Alger, in the fog. In this study I experimented primarily with the foreground - what would be in the lower part of the painting to lead the eye towards the mountain? How to convey the fog and how much of the mountain to expose? And the sky? And trees/no trees in the middle ground? If trees, how to simplify and keep your eye moving back? You'll see what I thought worked in the larger paintings that will follow in the next few weeks.