Lisa McShane Art

Still Water. ©2010 Lisa McShane. Oil on Linen Panel. 9x12. I have great news: the Roby/King Galleries on Bainbridge will be representing my work in that area. I'm thrilled to be working with Wes and Andrea and pleased to join their gallery. If you're in Seattle or Bainbridge, please stop by the gallery in downtown Bainbridge and see my paintings! Among them is Still Water. This is a favorite of mine and one that previously was not available for sale.

Canoe 1. Oil on Linen Panel. 9 x 12 . This was the first canoe painting I started, months ago. And here's the great thing about posting works on progress: I can look back in amazement at how long a painting can take to complete! Here's the first blog post about Canoe 1 from March. Yes, March! This small painting took 2 1/2 months to paint. Except for my trip to Texas, I worked on this every day. Canoe 1 was a study for a larger version, Canoe 2. You can see the finished version here . I love both. Both are crazy hard to photograph as they are deeply glazed.

Canoe Among the Alders. 16 x 12. Oil on Linen Panel. As you may have noticed, I've spent a lot of time these past few months at my small nearby lake - Lake Padden - watching the canoes and kayaks. Last week it was over 60 degrees and there were a LOT of people and boats at 6 pm. This is in the winter; the alders are bare. I love the mossy one on the left.

Yesterday was a big day in my studio: not only did I return from my workshop w/ Deborah Paris, but my paintings, brushes, paintings and frames arrived home from their travels too! Most notably, my canoe painting - above - arrived home framed in a gorgeous hand made frame from Mountains Edge Frames! Check them out here . This one is perfect for my painting. It's a dark, strong and simple presentation. I love it - thank you Steve! And my apologies for my blog post title: this is what we've said for decades when we return from a trip. I can't help myself.

Canoe 2. Oil on Linen. 30" x 22". After weeks of glazing, Canoe 2 is now complete. As you may be able to tell in a glance looking at this jpeg, the final photo isn't complete. Something this large and this glazed is really, really hard to photograph. I'll try again tomorrow morning. This is of a canoe on Lake Padden at dusk in the late winter. When the painting began the trees are bare. I was just at Lake Padden. It was 70 degrees and everything was leafed out. I miss the winter light already. As I wrote about here , here and here , Canoe 2 was inspired by a number of canoe paintings by Peter Doig and by my evening walks at Lake Padden.

Canoe in the Alders: Underpainting, part 2 This is the third in my series of canoes at Lake Padden. Lately everytime I'm there so are the canoes. My husband tells me it's all the same guy, named Wallace or something but that's just silly. These canoes do move fast and I love the wake they leave behind. This painting is 16" x 12" and is a linen panel (350DP from Wind River Arts - their heaviest thread with an alkyd priming. I like it so far.) The paint is Vasari Shale and what you see here is the second, more detailed underpainting. The first one was a light turp wash to roughly establish the layout on the panel. Next I'll let this dry and then begin adding the transparent color over the underpainting, probably adding in a little more detail with shale after I see a couple layers of color. Right now I'm excited about the old tree on the left: it will have a chartreuse moss on the right side. Cool!