“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.
“Coming Home 5″
12 in x 20 in, oil on wood
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This is a little piece of Eastern Washington, off I-90, in the dusk. You can see the sun shining through the tops of the trees, and the green and red colors of the shadowed field. Even though there isn’t much sky up there, this painting is about light in the sky.
I was jury-accepted into the Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour, which will be on September 25, 2010. It’s a talented group of artists; I’m excited that they accepted me. I’ll post more about that as it gets closer.
I started another larger (~12×20) painting of the farm fields in Eastern Washington yesterday, and am really happy with how it is turning out. I’m going for that feeling of dusk, with the red/green farm land, and purple mountains.
On a personal note, this has been a world-wind of a week. My son turned 3 on Saturday. Three! He’s growing so fast. It seems like he’s a completely different person from a year ago in certain ways, but still the same in the important ways – as sweet as can be, and gracious, and energetic. And then my husband had his birthday yesterday! Happy birthday!
“Home”
6 in x 8 in, oil on wood
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This is a beautiful little island in the middle of the river down the road. i love the colors and reflections.
“Coming Home 4″
12 in x 20 in, oil on wood
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This was kind of a sexy hillside with it’s dips and bumps and small patches of blue plants. And the clouds were amazing.
“Clouds Blowing By”
12 in x 18 in, oil on wood
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I’ve been working on this one for a few days, and boy oh boy did it use a lot of paint! there’s a little bit of impasto, but mostly I just tweaked the colors again and again, trying to get the feeling just right. This is a farm house and park a few miles from home that I just love and plan to paint a lot of. The roof of the farm house is metal, and very shiny in certain light, and the grass has really neat reds and greens… With this painting I really wanted to capture the excitement of the cloudy sky, but also the way the colors of the land and of the sky work together.
Hi all,
Ann has one an original painting! Thank you to all of you who entered the contest!
Best Wishes,
Jessie
“Sun Through Spring Trees”
6 in x 8 in, oil on wood
Jessie Rasche
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This is another painting of the same scene from yesterday. Yesterday I painted a bit of the river that was unobscured by the trees, and today I painted a bit that is obscured by trees. I find through the trees scenes difficult to paint, but I really enjoy them. I like this painting – the horizontal planes in the background and the vertical silhouette in the foreground, and that pallet. I am starting to really enjoy this extremely limited pallet.
“Sun On Spring Trees”
6 in x 8 in, oil on wood
Jessie Rasche
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I went for a walk with my son by this winding river, which was sometimes obscured by the trees and sometimes visible. It was beautiful with the spring colors.
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“Coming Home III”
12 in x 18 in, oil on wood
Jessie Rasche
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This painting is my attempt to capture the wild, dramatic clouds that were over Eastern Washington most of our drive home a couple weeks ago. It was really lovely and awe inspiring to see.
The last couple days have been really rough, painting wise. I spent 2 days before today working on this painting… yesterday I started sketching and sketching to get my values and shapes right, and got a sketch I really liked. So this afternoon followed my sketch very closely, and it came together nicely. I started by wiping off about 2/3 of the painting. I really like the nice glow that the gesso-ed wood gets when day-old paint is wiped off, so that was a good start. And while painting I mostly worked on keeping my values straight. I’m really happy with this one.
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.
I was born in 1971 in Bellingham, Washington, and grew up in the community of Pike Place Market artists in Seattle where my mom sold her artwork. I have been drawing for as long as I can remember, and painting for at least 20 years.
I live with my husband, son, and two cats in Eastern Washington, where I spend my days with my toddler and nap time painting.
I paint intimate paintings as a way of expressing appreciation of the world; to show how the light dances on flower petals or how a parent holds their child.
