Color, Color, Color...
"Sunset Symphony" • Acrylics on Canvas • 36" x 48" • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
Northern California painter Karen Lynn Ingalls creates artwork with vibrantly charged color. Her colorist landscape paintings of rural California often employ oranges and yellows, and warm blues and greens that glow.
It's a warmth reminiscent of a kind of eternal summer — an archetypal last golden hour of the day. And they are the colors of the California poppies and blue lupine flowers that grew in the meadow next to her family's home, which clearly made a deep impression.
It's a warmth reminiscent of a kind of eternal summer — an archetypal last golden hour of the day. And they are the colors of the California poppies and blue lupine flowers that grew in the meadow next to her family's home, which clearly made a deep impression.
Dusk In The Vineyards • acrylics on canvas • 48" x 48" • © 2012 Karen Lynn Ingalls
Although her colors may vary a little, depending on the seasons, the landscape, the time of day, and what calls to her, she always returns to this palette, which she describes as containing "a kind of visual Vitamin C."
It is these colors that people often remark on as drawing them into her work. They are the colors of a golden state — perhaps a California that is a state of mind, or a state of the heart.
It is these colors that people often remark on as drawing them into her work. They are the colors of a golden state — perhaps a California that is a state of mind, or a state of the heart.
"Country Road" • Acrylics on Canvas • 30" x 40" • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
Come visit Karen & her artwork
at Calistoga's First Saturday Art Walk
Saturday, September 2, 2023 • 3-6 PM
at EV Floral Design
1373 Lincoln Avenue, at the corner of Lincoln & Washington
Calistoga, California
at EV Floral Design
1373 Lincoln Avenue, at the corner of Lincoln & Washington
Calistoga, California
Karen will also bring her greeting cards and matted photo prints of her paintings.
Karen's Online Art Teaching
Karen currently teaches art online, and is pleased to be able to teach students from all over the United States and abroad. She is now scheduling her upcoming classes and workshops for summer 2023 — which may include:
- Acrylic Painting 101
- Acrylic Painting Online / Color and Composition
- Secrets of Color Harmony
- Abstract Landscape Painting
For more information, see www.NapaValleyArtWorkshops.com.
This Storm Too Shall Pass...
"This Storm Too Shall Pass" • 11"x 14"
• Acrylics on canvas, unframed • Private collection • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
There was a break in the storm clouds one day in the first week of March, 2020. Beyond I could see blue sky, and a bit of the sun hitting Mt. St. Helena, just north of Calistoga, where I live. It seems emblematic of our times. It's good to remember that, yes, this storm too shall pass. — Karen Lynn Ingalls
Vineyard Tree • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
Autumn Celebration • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
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Trees on Oat Hill • 16" x 20" • acrylics on canvas, framed • © 2014 Karen Lynn Ingalls
Morning Celebration • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
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