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Pacific Art League Juried Show
I went to the opening reception last night for the Pacific Art League’s juried show, Landscapes, Seascapes, Urbanscapes. Lots of amazing work! I got someone to take a picture of me next to my...
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How to Use Photo Editing to Help You Paint Details
I’ve been working on a painting for a family member, based on this photograph I took in Oregon. That’s my husband and three year old son standing in front of Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach. I made a...
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Winter Camping: Finished tent painting
This is another one of my winter camping paintings, inspired by a snowshoe trip in the coast mountains of British Columbia with my husband. Coast Mountains, 24″x 30″ acrylic on canvas, copyright ©...
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Landscape Site Upgrade
I’ve just launched a redesigned main site, kathrynbeals.com. This new edit has improvements to the print store (although you can still shop my store on Etsy) and the video gallery. I’ll be making...
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Sunrise Painting Step-By-Step, with Video
I’m really excited to finally have a new, professional camera setup. I’ve been filming painting videos for a while, but they were shot with our old point-and-shoot camera from, um, 2003. Check out...
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Finished Painting: Lupines in Bella Coola
This is a painting I did several years ago after a trip to Bella Coola, north of where I grew up on the coast of British Columbia: Bella Coola Lupines, 16″x 20″ acrylic on canvas, copyright © Kathryn...
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Snowshoe trip in Yosemite: Sunset on Snow
This painting is from a snowshoe trip to the Ostrander Ski Hut in Yosemite. We hit bad weather and got to the hut close to midnight, but the next day, we got to snowshoe around the nearby lake and...
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Winter Night Sky Painting: Wander
This is another painting from a snowshoe trip in Yosemite a few years ago. We had a long trip in to a stone shelter hut, and due to bad snow conditions it took much longer than we expected. It was...
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Getting Started: Setting up your Painting Space
Welcome to my series for beginners learning to paint, based on my own trial-and-error experiences as a self-taught artist. Once you’ve got your paint, brushes, canvases and other supplies, you’ll...
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Photos of my Canvas Prints
I spent today unpacking a few canvas prints I ordered for a fundraiser auction, and thought I’d take some photos of them. I’ve been selling canvas prints for a while through my Etsy store and my...
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Blue Skies in the Sierra Mountains, Finished Painting
This is another one of my paintings from our trips in the high alpine trails of the Sierra mountains. My husband and I have backpacked the highest section of the Pacific Crest Trail, including the John...
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Snowshoeing in the Coast Mountains, Finished Painting
This is a painting from a winter camping trip I took in Garabaldi Provincial Park in British Columbia. My husband and I snowshoed up a steep trail and camped in view of the Coast Mountains. Alpine...
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Alpine lakes painting in progress
I’ve been working on this painting of an alpine lake scene from the Pacific Crest Trail in the high Sierra mountains of California. This one is loosely based on the area south of Mather Pass. We...
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Starry Night on the Pacific Crest Trail, Finished Painting
I just finished this one this morning. This is my painting of the area below Mather Pass, on the Pacific Crest Trail: Amazed, 20″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, copyright © Kathryn Beals I paint a lot of...
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Pacific Crest Trail Painting in Progress: Painting Stars
I took progress photos of the second half of my Pacific Crest Trail painting, and turned them into a GIF, so you can watch the sky coming together: After filling in the background colors with a large...
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Montana Valley after a Fire, Finished Painting
This is a painting from a trip I took several years ago to Montana. We visited a valley ten years after a fire, facing the Beartooth mountain range: Regrowth, 24″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas, copyright ©...
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Dreams and the Pacific Crest Trail, Finished Painting
Nine months pregnant with my first child, I had a vivid dream of climbing up Forester Pass on the Pacific Crest Trail, in the high Sierra mountains of California. This pass, also part of the John Muir...
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Winter Wonder Juried Show at Pacific Art League
I just got notified that my snow painting, Solstice, was selected for the Winter Wonder Juried Show at Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, CA. The opening reception will be December 5, 2014 from 5:30-8...
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Acrylic Painting Demo: Blending Colors on your Palette
This is a quick demonstration of my color blending method, for people who are learning to paint. It seems pretty basic, but as a beginner I had a tendency to overmix my paint, resulting in flat...
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Winter Wonder Juried Show at the Pacific Art League
Last night, we went to the opening reception for the Winter Wonder juried show at the Pacific Art League gallery in downtown Palo Alto. My snow painting Solstice was selected to be part of the...
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