San Clemente Art Gallery Winter Judged Art Show, reception today

Come to the San Clemente Art Gallery reception today 3-5pm, or visit the Winter Judged Show art exhibition anytime between Nov. 6 2010 - January 6, 2011.

I will have two oil paintings in this show.  

"Limestone Canyon Oaks - Irvine Ranch Wilderness" above image and below image:

"Santa Margarita Lake in Summer".   

Limestone Canyon Oaks - Irvine Ranch Wilderness | Esther J. Williams - Blog

Because I have been so busy lately, I am linking my blog from my website to here, just click on the link below to go there. It is a nice long story with lots of pics!

Limestone Canyon Oaks - Irvine Ranch Wilderness | Esther J. Williams - Blog

Plein Air in Limestone Canyon

When the air is fresh and the sky is blue, the temperature is warm, there is nothing better to do than paint en plein air in the wilderness.  This location is in the Irvine Ranch Wilderness called Limestone Canyon and is accessible on Open Access Day.  The trails are wide enough for bikes, horses and hikers, even artists.  I showed up and two more artists did on this fine Sunday morning.  The fella you see painting is Anthony Salvo, he is a great artist, painted a beauty that day.  The other artist with me was Veronica Kortz, she is not in the images.  I shot video of her and will post it another time.  I am the smiling one, this was taken by a Irvine Ranch docent, Mike Boeck. 

It started out completely overcast, then cleared up at 11am, we painted until 2pm.  I showed my friends this meadow which is a good hike about half a mile up the trail.  There are some large oaks several hundered years old covering the trail at a bend, the Santa Ana mountains are in the distance.  Made a great composition with the trail going through the wild golden oats leading into the middle ground, then off into blue mountains.  It did get pretty warm later and we did sweat a lot hauling our supplies back, but capturing this scene was worth the effort.  I am presently refining my work sketch in the studio as I speak.   I am turing an otherwise rough looking piece into a more developed landscape.  The completed landscape will be posted later.   Back to painting in my studio now...

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2 Paintings Hung at San Clemente Art Gallery

Nestled Cottages, Crystal Cove and Fresh Cut Lemon is on exhibit at the San Clemente Art Gallery from Sept. 20 - Oct 28 for the Fall Judged Show.   The reception is this Saturday, Sept 25 from 3-5pm. 

To see more of a description of each painting go to my website at www.estherjwilliams.com  Thanks!

Update, Fresh Cut Lemon has won an honorable mention!

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Fabulous Crystal Cove Experience, New Plein Air Work

"North Shoreline - Crystal Cove"  14"W x 11"H, oil on Fredrix linen panel.  SOLD Just completed from the deck of a Crystal Cove cottage I stayed in for 5 days.  Funny thing is that an art customer of mine saw it in the making and wanted it before it was done.  I love it when things like that happen.  He wanted a painting that reminded him of the experience that Crystal Cove gives him.  Even though I knew it was taken, I still did my very best to create the greatest piece of art yet from my mind and art soul.  This painting depicts the abandoned, yet to be restored north shore cottages on a summer day in August.
I am painting a slightly longer angle of this scene in my studio from another workstudy, it will be placed in my Bower`s Museum art show on September 11-12 in Santa Ana, CA.  I will post an image of it here on the blog when complete.  I am doing a series of Crystal Cove paintings, any that are for sale will be placed on my estherjwilliams.com website.
If you would like to read more about the above painting and my process of painting it, go to my EstherJWilliams website blog and read the article, complete with several step by step images and a storyline.

Upcoming Art Show at Bowers Museum, September 11-12, 2010

I have been on summer vacation combined with a very hectic schedule lately.  I wanted to post two items of importance.  One is an article was written about me in my college alumni assoc quarterly newsletter, the TC3 Trio.  TC3 stands for Tompkins-Cortland Community College.  It is is Dryden, NY, near Ithaca.  I was featured for the Fall 2010 issue.  I am including the link to the PDF article.  You need Adobe Reader to open it.  Here is the link TC3 Alumni/Trio Fall  Go to page 3 and you will see my picture and an image of my San Clemente Pier painting.  It is a great article by a very creative editor at the college. 

Next, I am going to be in another juried art show.  This one is outdoors in the courtyard of the Bower`s Museum in Santa Ana, California.  The show is September 11-12, 2010, from 10am-4pm each day.  There is an artist reception at 11am on Saturday Sept 11.  Here is the link to that event, Bowers Museum Events  I will have approximately 18-21 works of my recent fabulous art on display racks for sale there.  They will be beautifully framed. 

Here is my latest portrait, I am extremely happy with this one.  It is called "Toni in Sidelight"  12x16, oil on Fredrix Linen Panel.    I am so happy to be an artist!