“Neighbor’s Trees III”
5 in x 7 in, oil on wood
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For some reason my neighbor’s trees look really loose and wild to me. I really like these pine trees, they turn really orange in the afternoon light, and there are so many branches reaching up, up, up.
“Three Trees”
8 in x 6 in, oil on wood
Jessie Rasche
This one’s not quite done yet. This is a portrait of the pine trees across the street. I’ll be doing more of these tree portraits, to get a better grasp of how to paint them. This is the top of a neighbor’s house and three trees behind the roof peaks.
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“Orcas Island VI”
6 in x 8 in, oil on wood
Jessie Rasche
I started this one en plein air, on a really windy day, and finished it indoors. I was sitting on a rocky beach on the roots of a big bleached tree which was protecting me from the wind. In the painting is a beach house, and a couple trees and a picket fence. I wanted to capture the wind-blown feeling of those trees, and the lovely effect of the sunlight on the house.
“Orcas Island I”
6 in x 8 in, oil on wood
Jessie Rasche
We stayed in a bungalow (Buckhorn Farm Bungalow) last week on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands. It was really beautiful and relaxing, and I got in a couple of plein air paintings. This is a shed on the farm we stayed at with huge evergreen trees behind it and a fence to the left that surrounded a garden.
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These are my neighbor’s trees. I started this a long time ago and then let it sit in an almost-done state for months. When I was getting ready for my show I had an aha moment, and knew how to finish it.
I’m really happy with the loose quality, the colors, and these are my best sky-holes so far.
Plumbs, 6×12″, oil on raw wood. The colors in the photo aren’t quite right; the plumb color is actually quite nice.
Umbrella, 6×6″, oil on wood.
I’m starting to enjoy painting pine trees. Here is another pine tree painting.
Hi everyone, I’m back and have several paintings in works. I’m working on some larger paintings for an upcoming show (more about that when it gets closer). These three are all 12×12, oil on deep-stretched canvas.
I’ve done a few small paintings that gave me great ideas but aren’t nice enough that I’d like to post them. Here’s one that I’m happier with:
Fiends
Oil on board, 6×6.
Silver chimney peak. I’m enjoying the light blue skies this week. Oil on canvas panel (canvas on Gaterboard), 6x6in.
This is an old, plain little bird house hanging in our back yard. I really like looking at this bird house – it always makes me smile, and I’ve been wanting to paint it for a while. Approx 6×8″, oil paint on board. (I’m using nice oak plywood, primered on one side – should I be calling this “board” or “wood” or something else?)
Today I spent a couple hours painting a field of yellow irises en plein air. Oil on canvas board, 12×16.
My painting arrived today and it is even better than I had hoped for! I love the way you mounted it in an offset shadow box frame~~ It sets off the painting perfectly!!
Thank you for packaging it so carefully as well. I want everyone to know that when you buy a painting from Jessie, you get the royal treatment!
Thank you again, I am so in love with your work.
Her style is representational and impressionistic and her subjects range from landscapes to figurative to still-life. She likes to illustrate an image or emotion with patterns and gestures, many brush strokes that add up to a finished piece. When you step close to one of her paintings, you can see deliberate strokes of color, and when you step back, the colors blend and become whole, encompassing a viewer with a moment of beauty.
