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PAT BLAIR ~~ DRIFTING & DREAMING ABOUT ART!

PAT BLAIR ~~  DRIFTING & DREAMING ABOUT ART!
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

MY JOURNAL


PORTER'S CELEBRATES 
THE MEDFORD RAILWAY DEPOT - 100 YEARS


Watercolor:  Impressions of the Depot II
An invitational exhibition of paintings by 54 local artists are on display at Porter's Restaurant in Downtown Medford.   The exhibit was scheduled for the month of November but proved so popular that Brian Porter, the owner, has extended the show to include the month of December as well.  He has, in fact, requested that the artists allow their pieces to remain at Porter's for all of 2011 too.  He is planning to repeat this show with another invitational next year at this time.

Acrylic:  1st painting
My acrylic painting (LEFT) was sold after being on display for only three days!   To honor that sales agreement, I have offered a new painting to the  couple who purchased the first one.  They have chosen the second painting. I will present the first painting to Porter's as a gift. 

This is such a fun show!  All of the paintings are done as a 12" x 12" unframed piece.  What each artist created to show their personal "Impressions of the Medford Depot" is wonderful to see!  

Monday, October 18, 2010

MY JOURNAL

"Hanley's Wheat In The Field"  Watercolor/Pastel     SOLD


I have been in love with the Hanley Farm since I served on the Southern Oregon Historical Society Board of Directors.  I was introduced to the farm when we decided to use the site for a plein air paint-out fundraising project in about 2001.  We invited 100 artists from Southern Oregon to the farm for a one-day paint out and lunch.  52 painters accepted the invitation and arrived early to paint.  They spread out over the farm and selected views to paint.  Their charge was to paint something historical.  The artists were all generous enough to donate a completed painting to an auction.  After a lovely lunch we all returned to our easels to complete the paintings.  Nancy Fox of the Frame Shop was generous enough to frame the paintings that came to us unframed.   The auction was  also held at Hanley Farm under an elegant white canopy.  Dinner was catered and the auction guests were entertained by music before the auction began. We raised more than $20,000 that evening!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

MY JOURNAL: "ON THE ROGUE AGAIN"

Rogue River at Takelma Park



















































































































































This is one of my latest plein air paintings done on location just below Shady Cove, Oregon.
The Rogue River was running high due to the excessive rain we had experienced in Southern Oregon during the entire month of June.  Now that Lost Creek Dam is full there is plenty of water to release.  Fishing is great and lots of boats and fishermen can be seen wherever the fish are spawning.

Friday, July 16, 2010

MY JOURNAL: DANCING WITH THE MUSE MEMBER EXHIBIT

Friday, July 16th marked the First Annual Membership Art Exhibit, "Dancing With The Muse" at the Rogue Gallery and Art Center.  This is my contribution to the exhibit below.  This is a "must see" show!  As Liz Robinson wrote in these poems especially for this occasion:


Impressions of
Pat Blair's Hayfield 
by Liz Robinson

Six hay bales
rolling over the gold grass hills
rounded hay bales
leaping their own shadows
down and pounding
in watercolor movements
scattered by the benevolent hand of the goddess of harvest hay
rolling leaping rounding down the midsummer day




ROGUE GALLERY MEMBER'S EXHIBIT 2010 by Liz Robinson

Gallery members
hung on the walls
painted, printed, sculpted, sewn,
glazed, jeweled, woven, blown.
Not the usual minimal,
maximum cheers,
media shoulder to shoulder
crowding the space,
realized on white-washed walls
where art's hung out for fifty years.
Community on display--
new lives that join us,
decades--old lives, proud of the site
and insight gained in this gifted place.
The friendliest night,
greetings warm as smiles
and sun ripe tomatoes.  "How are you?
How are the kids?"
An Opening,
Rogue Valley style.

Liz Robinson

Monday, May 31, 2010

ART JOURNALS


 This Spring I tried out a new class offering in Creating Art Journals.   It was a challenge to me although I have done journals for myself for many years.  Teaching a person to create something that they would be pleased with is difficult since we all come from a different mold. What I would want to feature is most definitely not what another creative person wants to do. At best the instructor becomes a coach and not a teacher.  It is a matter of discussing ideas and techniques that will assist an individual in becoming successful.  Sometimes the progress is slow but in the long run well worth the effort!

My theory is that art journals are a personal picture book that you may or may not want to share with other people.  If a person were to take photographs and place them in a photo album... that picture book is only seen once or twice because you must be with that book in order for the photos to be fully interpreted.   When you do an art journal... you will write something about the photo...something that describes where you took the photo... how that scene made you feel... and you may even include a diagram, a hand drawn map, or a small sketch to enhance that scene.  Voila!  A story book!  

My student, Lorrie, worked on an art journal of her trip to the Galapagos Islands. Her journal pages take the viewer along the cruise route and hiking paths  where she and her husband took many photos of wildlife found only on these islands.  I think she was quite successful!


I concentrated on My family beach excursions on the Oregon Coast.  I used my photos and simple drawings as page development examples.  My pages featured ocean views, family photos taken on the beach and the more common wildlife which can be seen any day on an Oregon beach.   The family, however, is unique and amazing!!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Newly created Fine Arts Web pages -- Click here!

This past month I have worked on uploading my paintings to a new commercial website called Fine Art Studio On Line.  I found this website by looking at several artist sites that I admired from my Plein Air Painters Of Oregon membership.   It is so easy to use and I am able to keep it up daily if I prefer to do so.   I have designed the page links to include all of my other art links in order to make this a "one-stop looking site".  Do check it out!

Saturday, March 27, 2010

MY JOURNAL: ... Then and Now

Three Hens And A Rooster     Acrylic  

I was reminded after my last blog entry about The Black Necked Stilts that once before one of my sold paintings had "come home to roost"!    The tale goes like this:

My good friends, The Duncans, who used to fly a small private plane quite a bit were out for a day trip to Florence, Oregon.  Once they landed they went to a popular local eatery in town called, "The Blue Hen".   When they were seated,  Ann looked up on the wall at the large painting just above their table.    The artist signature on the painting was mine, Pat Blair!   When they returned to Medford, Ann called and asked if I had ever done a painting of chickens for a restaurant in Florence.    The answer of course was yes I had done chickens but not for a restaurant.  I, in fact, had painted several different paintings with chickens (which was a popular thing to do in the mid-seventies! )  When I tried to determine which painting it might have been Ann could not remember the details of the painting... just the artist's signature on the piece.   The next time I visited Florence, Oregon was about 6 months later.  I made a point of having lunch at The Blue Hen so that I could see the painting.  It was not anywhere to be seen!  I asked the hostess about the painting and she did remember it and said "Oh that sold right off the wall!"   So I decided that I could not solve the mystery.   I told my ex next door neighbor about this story and asked if she still had the painting I had traded her for a kitchen range.  She did.  I asked another friend who now lives in California about the painting her mother-in-law  had purchased.  She told me that her in-laws had moved from Medford to Florence and that she sold the painting she had in a big moving sale when they down-sized for retirement.  Case solved.  Except I still don't know what painting it was... just that it must have been that one.    All was fine with my not knowing anything more and I let it go.   Then...my ex-neighbor, Fran, came into our Hot Pots! shop Anne Duncan, Arlene Kramer and I owned  with the large acrylic painting of Three Hens and a Rooster shown above.  She wanted me to have it back since she has no room for it now that she has down-sized in her retirement years!    

That is the way the chickens came home to roost!  The painting is happily hanging in the home of my youngest daughter who loves it!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

SEE MY NEW ArtSlant INTERNET SITE -- CLICK HERE!

I am constantly looking for a better venue for exhibiting my paintings on the Internet. I believe I have found a really fine one. Please look at this site. It is so very simple to navigate and certainly good looking as well.

SIGN UP NOW TO TAKE ONE OF MY CLASSES OR TAKE ONE OR ALL OF MY PLEIN AIR EXCURSIONS WITH ME!

CLICK ON THE WEBSITE BELOW TO CONNECT TO MY CLASSES

YOU WILL FIND:
Class Fees Calendar of Classes 
Plein Air Painting Schedule 
Painter's Supply lists
Do check this out! If this isn't the right time, 
be sure to let me know you are interested 
in an up-coming class!
NOTE:
I just recently responded to a request to answer interview questions about art. It took some thinking on my part but I found it helpful in determining just what I do think about art.

Interested? Just cut and paste this http address in your browser. http://www.whohub.com/en/patlblai

Thursday, February 4, 2010

MY JOURNAL: ... Then and Now

Black Neck Stilts  - Acrylic 

Amazing things happen all the time but rarely do they happen to me!  This is a short story, really, but I'll just make a condensed version here:

I painted this acrylic painting of Black Neck Stilts in 1968.  At that time I was still painting on very large canvases.  Several of my paintings sold during an art show/sale that was a part of Westminster Presbyterian Church's Annual Fall Festival.  Many artists who belonged to that church brought their paintings to the festival and displayed them there.  The festival was always well attended and sales were brisk.  I sold several paintings, prints and pen and ink drawings that day.    A couple from Grants Pass purchased this piece.  They were very excited to purchase this one and hang it in their newly acquired home.    

In October, 2009, (exactly 41 years later)  I received a telephone call from a woman living in Winston, Oregon.  She asked if I were the Pat Blair in Medford who painted and had I ever painted  a clutch of black and white birds with long legs.  When I answered yes, she explained that she had inherited the painting from a dear friend who had passed away recently.  The woman said she had no room on her walls for a painting this large (30" x 34") and that the colors nor subject matter would match her decor.  She wanted it to return to the original artist. She dropped the painting off just this past December 20th and asked that I take a photo of the painting with me and my three daughters sitting in front of the painting. 

Below is an original photo of me and my three daughters taken in 1968 and also the photo and my three daughters taken in December 2009.

VIEW PAT'S FINE ART GALLERY

VIEW PAT'S FINE ART GALLERY
(Click on) Monument Valley II . . . Watercolor. . . Collection of The Artist

GALLERY & STUDIO SALES

My Gallery/ Studio is in my home and I am fairly successful in selling my work by having an open house studio/gallery reception about twice a year (one in the Summer and one in early winter.) I find it fun to do and usually set a three hour time for the gallery sale to run. I serve wine and cheeses and spend a lot of time visiting with my friends and neighbors. (Sixteen of my paintings sold in my last sale during a three hour time period!)

Let me know if you'd like to be on my invitation list.

Just email me at:
blair432@charter.net.


2013 ~ Pastel ~ SOLD

2013 ~ Pastel ~ SOLD
"Orchards on Carpenter Hill" Collection of Dr & Mrs Tom Hanenburg

2013 ~ Pastel ~ SOLD

2013 ~ Pastel ~ SOLD
"From Pascal to Roxy" Collection of Dr & Mrs Tom Hanenburg

2013 ~ Monotype~ SOLD

2013 ~ Monotype~ SOLD
"Monotype Desert" Collection of Dr & Mrs Roy Lichtenstein

2013 ~ Watercolor ~ SOLD

2013 ~ Watercolor ~ SOLD
"Sea Jetty" Collection of Susie Lee

2013 ~ Watercolor & India Ink ~ SOLD

2013 ~ Watercolor & India Ink ~ SOLD
"The Old Mill" Collection of Mr & Mrs John Dailey

2013 ~ Watercolor ~ SOLD

2013 ~ Watercolor ~ SOLD
"Rogue River Below Gold Rey Dam" Collection of Mr & Mrs Rob Patridge

2013~ Watercolor ~ SOLD

2013~  Watercolor  ~  SOLD
"Tablerock" Collection of Donna Blalock

2012 ~ Watercolor ~~ SOLD

2012  ~ Watercolor ~~ SOLD
"Favorite Summer Pastime " owned by Mrs. Sue Smith of Medford, Oregon

2011 ~ Watercolor ~ SOLD

2011  ~  Watercolor ~  SOLD
TABLE ROCK ~~ Owned by Dr & Mrs Eric Overland

2010 Pastel ~~ SOLD

2010 Pastel   ~~ SOLD
Hanley's Wheat In The Field

2010 Pastel

2010 Pastel
View From Rogue River Lodge

2008 ~ WATERCOLOR (Available)

2008 ~ WATERCOLOR  (Available)
HAYFIELD - Watercolor ~~ $650.

2008 WATERCOLOR & INK (Available)

2008 WATERCOLOR & INK (Available)
Provence Farm~~ Watercolor~~ $250.00

2008 WATERCOLOR (available)

2008   WATERCOLOR (available)
Tuscan Farm -- Watercolor, 2008 ~~ $ 450.

2006 WATERCOLOR (Available)

2006 WATERCOLOR  (Available)
Mesa Verde Cliff House ~~ $250. ~~

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Taos Adobe ~~Watercoilor~~ Collection of Wallace Swanson, Ankorage, AK

~~ SOLD ~~

~~ SOLD ~~
Rogue River Gorge At Union Creek ~~ Watercolor ~~ Collection of Tudy Schiveley, Tualatin, Oregon

~~ SOLD ~~

~~ SOLD ~~
Horner Ranch View ~~ Pastel ~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs Dan Kellogg, Gold Hill, Oregon

~~ SOLD ~~

~~ SOLD ~~
Three Little Brown Birds ~~ Watercolor ~~ Collection of Marcia Legg, Ashland, Oregon

~~ SOLD ~~

~~ SOLD ~~
Seven On The Rogue ~~ Watercolor ~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs Stuart Foster, Medford, Oregon

~~ SOLD ~~

~~ SOLD ~~
Bramble of Birches ~~ Watercolor ~~ Collection of Diane Newland, Jacksonville, Oregon

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Farm At Table Rock~~ Watercolor~~ Collection of Dr. Tony Grubesic, Bloomington, Indiana

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Abstract Oil ~~ Wet Dog ~~ Collection of Gary Blair, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Blacksmith Done Gone ~~ Watercolor~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs Wm Cousineau, Sunriver, OR.

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Beach House ~~ Watercolor~~ Collection of Mrs. Sharon S. Stacy, Ashland, OR

~~ SOLD ~~

~~ SOLD ~~
Monument Valley II ~~ Watercolor ~~ Collection of Sharon S. Stacey, Ashland, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Watercolor~~Tuscan Vinyard , 2007 ~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs David Reitz, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Up The Road With Bixby ~~ Watercolor~~ Collection of Gary Blair, Medford, Oregon

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Au Poir ~~Watercolor~ Collection of April Creson, Medford, OR.

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
The 'Dear' Hunter~~Colored Pencil~~ Collection of Jennifer Oliver, Eureka, CA.

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Shadow Water ~ Collection of Mrs. Cherie (Hilts) Phillips, Roanoke, VA.

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Tuscan Sky~~Collection of Mr & Mrs Greg Martinez, Colorado Springs, Co

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Provence With Lavender -- Watercolor, 2007 ~~~~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs John Thiebes, Medford, Oregon

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Caprock Thistle ~~ Watercolor ~~ Collection of Dr & Mrs. Eric Overland, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Ah...Tuscany! Watercolor, 2007 ~~~~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs Stuart Foster, Medford, Oregon

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Good Friends, Good Wine -- Watercolor, 2007 ~~~~~~Collection of Mrs. Cherie (Hilts) Phillips , Roanoke, Virginia

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Four Pots, Two Ears and A Story To Tell ~~ Collection of Marcia G. Legg, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Fishing From The Dock -- Collection of Mr & Mrs Bill Cousineau of Sunriver, Oregon

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Storyteller With Chilis ~~ Private Collector ~~ Dallas, Texas

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Grapes On The Window Sill ~~ Watercolor ~~ Collection of Marcia G. Legg, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Stained Glass Birches ~~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs Craig Olsen, Medford, Oregon

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Birches In The Afternoon ~~ Collection of Dr & Mrs Jerry Barrett, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Grass Is Always Greener -- Collection of Mr & Mrs Wm. D. Cousineau of Sunriver, Oregon

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Four Pots And A Basket ~~~ Collection of Mr & Mrs Rob Duncan, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
New Mexico Pots -- Collection of Dr & Mrs James Theen, Medford, OR

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
River Bend ~~ Collection of Mrs. Cherie (Hilts) Phillips, Roanoke, VA

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Snowfield ~~~~ Collection of Ms Meghan OFlaherty, Vancouver, WA

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Monument Valley ~~ Monotype~~ Collection of Tim Harolson, Perth, Australia

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Bue Storyteller ~~ Monotype ~ Collection of Tim Harolson, Perth, Australia

~~SOLD~~

~~SOLD~~
Grapes In The Afternoon ---- Collection of Mrs Emily Carpenter Mostue, Medford, Oregon