Field Station Road • acrylics on full sheet watercolor paper • © 2009 Karen Lynn Ingalls
The Red Tree • acrylics on full sheet watercolor paper • © 2009 Karen Lynn Ingalls
| Announcing: The Patrons' CircleA note from Karen Lynn Ingalls:
A year and a half ago, I planned a series of large paintings, based on the photographs I've been taking in the area where I live, of landscapes of the Napa Valley and surrounding wine country – fields with trees and vineyards, fields without vineyards – rural northern California in all its beauty and glory. My focus got diverted to my teaching and workshops (which I love doing), and painting lots of smaller paintings using methods other than what I use for my landscape paintings. By the time a year had passed, I realized I had painted only small pieces, and still hadn't begun my big paintings. Big paintings take a lot of time, and a series of them takes a big commitment. Hmmmm. How could I enable myself to pull this off? Click here to find out what I decided to do.... |
Color, color, colorCalistoga colorist painter Karen Lynn Ingalls creates work with vibrantly charged color. Her landscape paintings of rural California often employ yellows and oranges, and warm blues and greens that glow with a warmth redolent of a kind of eternal summer, a kind of archetypal last, golden hour of the day.
Although her colors change depending on the seasons, the landscape, the time of day, and what interests her, she frequently 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.  Follow Karen on Facebook |  Sunset Meadow • © 2009 Karen Lynn Ingalls  Hillside Sunlight and Shadow • © 2010 Karen Lynn Ingalls |
