tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43742569073965065962024-02-18T19:07:36.288-08:00Sketchbook PlayFaye Castle's Sketches and Recent Oil PaintingsFaye Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857138587249951092noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374256907396506596.post-82105650451235491922015-03-25T09:53:00.008-07:002022-10-21T14:31:33.384-07:00 Oil Paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Foggy Pond at Greenbank Farm 18'x18"</div>
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Life is good, I am painting, sketching and traveling! The issue is, some things like my blog, can be neglected. It is spring on Whidbey Island and the plum trees on the way into Langley have been in full bloom! This view welcomed me every day last week on my way to Studio 106!</div>
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Just yesterday it was fall and this is how the Olympic Mountains looked over Mutiny Bay.<br />
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The Whidbey Island Sketchers are often invited into amazing Island homes,thanks to our intrepid scheduler Sue! Lovey Couture Design is one of them. Beautiful dresses are created in Brenda's home studio, of course filled with color like this wall of thread spools.</div>
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What a satisfying place to be on a gray day!</div>
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"Chorus Line" Pastelon paper 7 x 17 From my archives.</div>
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A 24" x 24" sits on my easel right now, an enlargement from a 4" x 6" plein air landscape from last summer.<br />
I have been a longtime figure and still life painter working in pastels, with occasional plain air landscapes. A door has opened and I have walked through into almost exclusively landscape for a number of reasons. I love the feel of oil paint in my brushes, (bigger brushes) and the marks they make on canvas or paper, as well as the freedom in just exploring space, value and color! I've been privileged to join a group of beach painters along with a dynamic teacher for a week each of the last 2 years, attempting to paint what is essential in a constantly changing light, magical light. It is a challenging transition from my deeply ingrained habits , vastly exciting!<br />
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As my blog title indicates, I have for years been a dedicated pen and watercolor sketcher, and now have a group of wonderful like minded friends who meet every week and sketch life on Whidbey Island.<br />
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We love to draw, we enjoy each others company indoors or out, its a treasure in my life. <br />
My husband and I just returned from 26 days exploring and sketching in Italy. I know as I look at these pages in years to come I will be taken right back into those delightful days! I teach sketch classes and am an advocate for anyone with the slightest interest to find a personal way to add this to life.<br />
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"Last Sun" Oil on canvas 6 x 8<br />
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Returning from the beach with a vanload of wet paintings!<br />
Oil on sized 140 lb watercolor paper<br />
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<b>2. How does my work differ from others in its genre?</b><br />
Visual artists share a common language and we each find our own way with it. Where I find my strongest emotional involvement is in color and color relationships. Presently I am working very hard to find what is the necessary concept in each painting, and let go of what is not necessary. This will joyfully take up the rest of my life.<br />
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"Veiled Afternoon"Oil on canvas 12 x 12<br />
From a Storm Watch visit to the Washington coast <br />
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<b>3. Why do I create what I do?</b><br />
Painting brings more satisfaction than most anything else I do.<br />
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<b>4. How does my creating process work?</b><br />
I love to start paintings! Its all about possibility as I work to get the canvas covered with the best<br />
decisions possible. Then I get more constrained, what needs correcting? How much correcting? How will that affect everything else? How much can I let the script change in reacting to what I see?<br />
I do spend time in pre planning. I look for not only color but value and shape. My i pad has become a reference when we can't be outside. I can tweak and play with shapes from the photos and compare options as well as work with fleeting light tho it is never the same.<br />
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Tagged names on their way!Faye Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857138587249951092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374256907396506596.post-72099192099437514732014-11-09T20:56:00.002-08:002014-11-10T14:30:50.428-08:00Italy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My husband an I just returned from nearly a month of exploring and sketching in Italy. It was a magical time, each day filled with discoveries as we wandered the beautiful countryside and hilltop towns. We both sketch, and it became like a treasure hunt as we collected images and memories in our sketchbooks.<br />
Also...food and wine.<br />
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Our first week was in the home of friends in southern Tuscany with this view from the terrace, looking out over rolling hills and vineyards all the way to the Mediterranean! Memorable sunsets as we sipped local wine. <br />
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Colorful windows and doorways, potted plants and charming little gardens everywhere.<br />
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180 degrees of Mediterranean blue from the rooftop of the Hotel Regina.</div>
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Mt Vesuvius with a cloud hat in the center.</div>
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The colosseum in Rome.</div>
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<br />Faye Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857138587249951092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374256907396506596.post-48246956608688586122014-03-24T11:18:00.000-07:002014-11-10T14:22:07.564-08:00Sketching in Mexico!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two weeks of playing, sketching and swimming, near Manzanillo, Mexico. Of course, some eating<br />
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I often woke up early to see the sun explode over the mountains and Santiago Bay.<br />
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Surrounded by water and ever changing light. Never the same twice!<br />
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Just above us, the pool and palapa of Casa Maya<br />
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Early morning, Second Beach on the Washington coast.<br />
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From our tent at Lyons Ferry in the Palouse<br />
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It is cold outside, but warm and full of people to sketch inside. Coffeeshops are always inviting. It's a good time to play with new materials and surfaces. I recently got a Schminke 1/2 pan watercolor set, and tried it out on a new Crescent all media book. Its a good surface for ink! Sketches on the right were with my Lamy pen and a waterbrush in a small pocket sketchbook. <br />
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<br />Faye Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857138587249951092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374256907396506596.post-44579663646905095332013-10-03T11:10:00.002-07:002014-03-01T14:07:37.568-08:00 Plein Air Oil SketchesThese are some of the 50 little color studies painted with Simon Kogan on Long Beach Peninsula the first week of September. Powerful teacher, gracious hostess, inspiring comaraderie. Value and Temperature, trying to paint what we were seeing as it constantly changed.. What is necessary, what is not? This is the heart of my biggest challenge as a painter.<br />
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I love sketching the late summer reds and golds of the Greenbank Farm hills.<br />
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One rescued llama resident acts as a watchdog and protector.<br />
She reminded me of a dignified Daumier caricature!<br />
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Beautiful afternoon near Coupeville Ferry with my<br />
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From a June trip with friends to Glacier Park. Painted Tepee Mountain.</div>
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sheep passing behind us.Faye Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857138587249951092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374256907396506596.post-46806799496503418352013-07-21T14:07:00.002-07:002013-08-16T10:05:06.267-07:00July<br />
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This last week the Whidbey Island Sketchers were invited to visit another of Whidbey's amazing surprises, an exotic bird aviary. Color spots in motion with tons of personality! Trying to sketch these moving brilliant birds as they checked us out..was challenging ..... and enteraining!<br />
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The Hyacinth Macaw is the largest of all parrots, and for real, ultramarine blue and violet! </div>
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These two were the most curious. The Blue Throat Macaw went to toes and shoes and looked over shoulders. The brilliant little sun conures, probably the most playful, climbed all over us. Their voices were not so delicate, but what incredible color, especially when in the sun! Appropriate name.</div>
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Thank you to the Cole Gallery in Edmonds for filling another workshop yesterday with a great group of people for "Sketching Anywhere" watercolor and ink journaling. Edmonds in bloom was at its best. Also,what a great farmer's market! http://coleartstudio.com/workshops-artclasses/</div>
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A friend's garden near where we live. I was using my new Kuretake sable brush pen with the usual Lamy. Much experimenting ahead with this new tool!</div>
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All on their own....sharing my sketchbox. I will restock the ultamarine blue. Excitement and freedom of color! I like theirs best!</div>
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San Juan summer hayfield.</div>
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Then....the sun came out on this trio of trees.</div>
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The wisteria was in soft cool light.<br />
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<br />Faye Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857138587249951092noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374256907396506596.post-79818522783621449952013-04-27T09:14:00.001-07:002013-04-27T09:19:37.828-07:00More Spring on Whidbey and Coming Events!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been out and about with my sketchbook this week, yesterday at a friend's house in Central Whidbey. I couldn't get past this great old rocker on the front porch, framed by the rhododendrons.<br />
One of the best things about our spring!<br />
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A Matter of Taste opening this coming Saturday at the Brackenwood Gallery in Langley.</div>
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On June 8, I will be teaching a one day "Sketching Everywhere" workshop at the Cole Gallery<br />
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http://coleartstudio.com/sketching-anywhere-watercolor-journaling-w-faye-castle<br />
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Getting back into pastels was fun and satisfying after being away form them for a couple of years.<br />
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These new pieces will be in the Brackenwood Gallery's May show, "A Matter of Taste"<br />
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Thank you Phyllis, Bill and Susie for sharing your amazing Casa, and Kate for your friendship!</div>
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The wall in the front opens completely, and this is the view from the living room sofa! <br />
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Sweet mini bananas and papaya for breakfast, outside of course.</div>
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Music for the Eyes, an oasis of color and warmth in winter Langley. A favorite place</div>
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These musicians just happened to be at the Useless Bay Wine Bar at the same time, and started playing together. Lucky us to be there too, with sketchbooks!</div>
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Our family gathered for Christmas in Houston, Texas. This little sketch is from Galveston Bay State Park, a long, spacious stretch of beach. It was overcast here too, but warm. Different colors!</div>
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A Fredericksburg side street. I packed just a small landscape sketchbook and found I enjoyed the long format.<br />
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Round Red Things! It must be winter. Plums, persimmon and pomegranates.</div>
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This summer has been busy, a little crazy, the fun of family and friends to visit and </div>
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the most beautiful places on Whidbey Island, How great is that?</div>
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This is the Smith Garden near Lagoon Point. September layers of color!</div>
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Green rolling hills and trails at Greenbank Farm</div>
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and from Bush Point at sunset.</div>
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Our Sketching Whidbey workshop is filling up. We will have our own little bus to<br />
explore some of Whidbey's remarkable places and sketch. What a great weekend<br />
get away, check it out! www.whidbeyislandfas.com<br />
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And in our backyard, the apple tree is in<br />
full glorious bloom!Faye Castlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857138587249951092noreply@blogger.com0