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Sketchbook Project Update - II

4/29/2012

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Bennett Lane vineyard, late December • sketch from "Travel with Me... to the Napa Valley" • © 2012 Karen Lynn Ingalls
Are you in Chicago May 3rd - 5th? Or Portland, Oregon on May 11th and 12th? If so, you may want to head over to see The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour as it zooms through town. My sketchbook, Travel with Me... to the Napa Valley, is a part of the show.

In Chicago, Illinois, it will be at Hyde Park Art Center, on Thursday, May 3rd, from 3 to 7 pm, and on Friday and Saturday, May 4th and 5th, from 12 to 4 pm. Hyde Park Art Center is at 5020 S. Cornell Avenue in Chicago.
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The old Calistoga Gliderport • sketch from "Travel with Me... to the Napa Valley" • © 2012 Karen Lynn Ingalls
In Portland, Oregon, it will be at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel (yes, really!) on Saturday, May 11th, from 4 to 8 pm, and Sunday and Monday, May 12th and 13th, from 1 to 5 pm. You'll find it at 1022 SW Stark Street in Portland.

A note about the old Gliderport: both it and the old warehouses near it, which you can see in my blog post, The Sketchbook Project - I, are slated for demolition, likely to be replaced by a luxury hotel. They are treasured parts of a part of Calistoga's history, and I'm very glad they will at least live on in these sketches, long after the wonderful old, funky buildings themselves are gone.
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Miniatures at the Museum

4/29/2012

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Vineyard Palm • © 2012 Karen Lynn Ingalls
Vineyard Palm, a 5" x 7" acrylic painting on panel, is my contribution to the Napa Valley Museum's Take a Chance on Miniatures show, opening May 4th, 2012.

I loved working out the aesthetic complexities of this piece (yes, believe it or not, a small size doesn't mean it's necessarily less complicated), which took me the better part of several days. I love its color – and, of course, its subject matter, a vineyard south of Calistoga.
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The opening reception (free for members, $5 for guests) will be Friday, May 4th, 2012, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Vineyard Palm is one of eighty pieces juried into the exhibition – which is also a fundraiser for the museum. Luck and a $5 raffle ticket could get you this painting!
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Sketchbook Project Update - I

4/28/2012

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View of Mt. St. Helena, from the Yellow Rose, in Calistoga • © 2012 Karen Lynn Ingalls
Are you anywhere near Brooklyn, New York? If you are, you have one more day to see my little sketchbook, Travel with Me to the Napa Valley, before it leaves for Chicago.
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My sketchbook is a part of The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour, which opened on April 14th, at the Brooklyn Art Library. Sunday, April 29th, is the last day of the show! You can find the Brooklyn Art Library at 103A N. 3rd St. in Brooklyn, New York, and you can see the show from 12 - 8 pm.
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My painting featured...

4/7/2012

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I'm honored to have my painting, Field Station Road, featured on the promotional material for the current Yountville Community Center Gallery show. You can see one of my newest paintings there until May 14th (I'll post a photo of it soon - it's one of my new dusk paintings). I'm pleased to have it there with the work of over thirty of my Napa Valley Open Studios colleagues.
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Simple Pleasures - My Summer Show

5/29/2011

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Thursday, June 2 - during Calistoga's First Thursday Artwalk - from 5 to 7 - is the opening for my summer show, at All Seasons Bistro in Calistoga, California, at the corner of Lincoln and Washington Streets.

Unlike most of my shows, Simple Pleasures is a show of drawings and drawings with acrylic wash (acrylics used in a watercolor manner) - and the drawings are all of still lifes - simple compositions, humble subjects. I seem to be in drawing mode lately - a lovely place to be in. My brushes and wild color are calling to me, but the drawing cells in my body (surely I must have lots of them) are very, very happy. You can see some of the little drawings at my Line, Color, Paint, Joy blog at: http://karenlynningalls.blogspot.com/2011/05/simple-pleasures-show-at-all-seasons.html
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A wonderful time at Taste of Yountville

3/21/2011

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This weekend at Taste of Yountville was a wonderful time for Napa Valley Open Studios artists. It was something of a mini–Open Studios, all under one roof. Even better, the artists were able to visit with each other, and see what each of us was working on, which we aren't able to do during Open Studios.

Meeting and working with the wonderful people from the Yountville Arts Committee was a special treat for all of us. They have been working very hard to bring art into the Yountville community with a sculpture walk and this event (and who knows what else in the future?). What a pleasure it was to meet them!

Throughout the three days, we met both local people and people from around the country. I talked with people visiting from Boston, Nahant (near Boston), Brooklyn, and Ohio, as well as a lot of folks from the Bay Area and Napa Valley. Many of them were new to our Open Studios and to our artwork, which made it especially good for us.

Then, to top it off, I sold two paintings (two of my favorites), as well as a number of the small matted reproductions I print on my photo printer. And the clouds actually parted, giving us pretty decent weather Friday night and most of Sunday, in spite of predictions of torrential downpours. All in all, it was a very good time!
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Napa Valley Open Studios artists in Yountville

3/15/2011

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This weekend, Yountville Arts presents Napa Valley Open Studios artists at a Taste of Yountville – the premier foodie event in the Napa Valley, and certainly one of the top foodie events in the country. Yountville is a very small town with more many-starred restaurants per capita than any place in the world. They take their food SERIOUSLY. Hmmm… and here I am, bringing landscape painting!

I'm looking forward to this. For me, it's also an opportunity to see many of my Open Studio colleagues, whose company I very much enjoy. My space will be facing the patio, right next to Nick Cann, one of my favorite people (and a wonderful artist – and a style leader. You can ask him about that!).

I'll be bringing some of my golden paintings, and some spring paintings. I'll also be bringing some new, small paintings that I am currently working on. I see, too, that my painting, Knights Valley Autumn, currently in my show at the Westin in Napa, was chosen for our brochure – I'm honored!
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Westin Verasa Napa - the show is up!

3/9/2011

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Yesterday, I hung my show at the Westin Verasa Napa (what a beautiful hotel!). I lined the paintings up, three still in bubble wrap, and three of us were contemplating the best way to work the hanging system, when a fellow with a familiar face walked past us – and, as he walked past, took a second look back at the paintings. It was interior designer Vern Yip, whose designs I enjoyed watching Trading Spaces some years back. He has his own show now, Deserving Design, and is a judge for HGTV Design Star. An auspicious beginning for the show? You never know who passes through Napa....
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    Karen Lynn Ingalls

    I am an artist in Napa and Sonoma Counties, in California. I paint colorist landscapes of rural California, teach art classes and lessons, and live in Calistoga, California. I also teach private, group, and corporate art workshops in Napa Valley, Sonoma County, and other parts of Northern California.

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