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- there is quite a lot for your enjoyment!

"A Gentle Midday" Accepted into Master Circle Exhibit

"A GENTLE MIDDAY" has been accepted in the 4th IAPS Master Circle Exhibition in Albuquerque in June. 6x12" - sometimes good things come in small packages! Thank you so much IAPS Jurors Gwenneth Barth White, Debora Stewart, and Margaret Evans. I'm very excited to have work hanging in the Master Circle Exhibition this year!  

"Midnight Magic" Had a Good Year

"Midnight Magic", one of my favorite pastel paintings of 2016, found a new home with a local collector. "Midnight Magic" had a good year, receiving the BOLD BRUSH FAV 15% in FEB.; winning 2nd place in the Signature Division in the PSWC Online Member's Exhibit; was included in an article in the PSA Pastelagram Summer Edition by Duane Wakeham; and received the 'Show Submit' Award at the PSA Enduring Brilliance Exhibit in NYC in September; and as Gail Sibley reminded me, it was featured in her "How to Pastel" December Dynamite Pastels article! http://www.howtopastel.com/2016/01/decembers-dynamite-pastels/ . I'm sorry to see it go, but I know where it now lives! Thank you W.F.!

"A Moment in Rhyme"

"A Moment in Rhyme" 9x12 pastel on UART - SOLD
This is a wonderful color piece that will bring interest to any room - home or office.
I love black-capped Chickadees - one of my gramma Charlotte's
favorite little birds - and they are plentiful around our place
here in Central Washington!

"Dusk on High Tide"

"Dusk on High Tide" ... made a few changes .. I like it now... 8x10 oil on revived panel... Thanks much T.F. of Wenatchee ...  SOLD

Jen Evenhus Interview with UArt Pastel Papers

Hey friends... check out my interview with UArt!

UART has a chat with master pastelist Jen Evenhus.
http://uartpastelpaper.com/interviews/1010-interview-with-jen-evenhus/  
Jen is a nationally recognized, contemporary artist. She has exhibited work in New York City at the National Arts Club; Denver, Colorado at Carol Siple Gallery; Sacramento and Redding, California; New Orleans at the World Trade Center; Coos Bay and Bend, Oregon and Seattle, Issaquah, Everett, and Anacortes, Washington to name a few. 
 

CAVE CREEK HIDEAWAY - DEMO

CAVE CREEK HIDEAWAY demo (9x12" on UArt) - if you haven't watched my demo yet, join me for a good lesson in changing a painting up when at first you thought it was done, but immediately realize it is "too much - too busy"! You will see the value of scrubbing it back and repainting! So if it's evening for you, get a glass of wine, if it's morning a cup of coffee or tea with a biscuit will hold you over the 38 minutes of the video. DEMO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw5YNw-QXAk Then after you watch it, if you are inspired to learn more, sign up for one of my 2017 workshops found on my website www.jenevenhus.com .
Thanks for watching!!

"Upon a Clearing"

"Upon a Clearing"   8x10  Oil on Revived Panel
Simplify simplify! Palette knife is sooo challenging... you have to think
with every stroke, especially working wet in wet  

....CHANGED background tree shapes... pushed them back, and pulled paint off so they feel lighter...  These are great studies in composition - how to change the landscape to get a good composition, color studies - working with small adjustments of color, taking things out, changing their size - and then to do it all using a palette knife - something I haven't done much of but have seen some artist's work that I love that use a palette knife... so I'm giving it a try - this would be a piece of cake in pastel - but then how do you learn if you do the same thing over and over!

"A Twinge of Dismay"

"A Twinge of Dismay" 9x12 pastel...  SOLD

"Curiously, Hope"

REWORKED... "Curiously, Hope" ....closer to my vision
8x10 oil on revived panel. 

"A Subtle Stillness"

"A Subtle Stillness"  5x7  oil on panel    $200  SOLD

This is the hill behind our home - endless clouds dance overhead - a Fall scene with the hillside dry from an endless summer. I love the color of sagebrush - not green, not blue . . . but sage . . . you can see the sage color in the "revived panel" underpainting - from an old sanded down oil painting on the lower right . . . the hill and upper left is mostly underpainting, showing a ghost image from the old image. Add this one to your collection - it will look fabulous in a plein air floating frame - jen@evenhusfineart.com 

"Dangerous Footing"

"Dangerous Footing"  6x6   oil on panel     $200

I've loved rock formations all my life - I think because they have fabulous design elements.
My mom also loved rock walls and cliffs - we often took trips over to Ellensburg so we could stop along the way and shoot pictures of the basalt cliffs along the freeway . . . an endless reference for abstract paintings . . . I also look for designs in the hills and mountains I hike.

"Dangerous Footing" comes from one such time - last Fall, I was hiking up Icicle River trail - reveling in the exorbitant oranges and reds of the foliage, and the last remnants of the green along the trail. This bit of rock was close to the river and slick from the spray . . . I always look for good compositions that the rocks and plants offer - this was painted over a 'revived panel' - an old oil painting that I sanded off with a rough sandpaper, leaving a ghost image that you can see in several places ... click on the image and enlarge to see the details ... painted exclusively with palette knife, I love the mark-making that happens when you push paint around with a knife!

Add "Dangerous Footing" to your collection - jen@evenhusfineart.com

"Things to Come"

"Things to Come"  6x6" oil on panel   $200   SOLD

I have a rose bush. (that just reminded me of the narration for the movie 'Out of Africa' - one of my all-time favorites!) Actually a couple rose bushes that produce the most beautiful and sometimes, in the Fall, the most strange looking roses. After the first frost, they turn more pink, and have dark pink/magenta spots but part of the rose is yellow! But I love them - I think because they are not "perfect."  My mantra is "The Beauty of Imperfection"TM and I use that in all my Workshop titles.

These roses have a spunky personality - they can be meek, they can be arrogant, they are at once old fashioned and contemporary. "Things to Come" signifies the new bud unfurling while the blossom on the right fades ...  add "Things to Come" to your collection  jen@evenhusfineart.com

"Prelude to a Storm"

"Prelude to a Storm" 11x14" on panel   $450
Last Fall we joined friends for a trip to the Oregon Coast, so was able to get a lot of photo and sketching reference for my  Tidepool series . . . Here we are looking down over a cliff onto the rocks below the resort where we stayed. I made several changes to the shape of the outcropping and added rocks to the right hand side to balance ... then I wanted to lighten the top and as I layed in a neutral color with the palette knife, it turned into a giant wave! So much fun to just see what happens! Add this to your collection by emailing me at jen@evenhusfineart.com.

"Veils Over Low Tide"

"Veils Over Low Tide"  8x8" oil on panel.
Working on my Tidepool series here ... The colors here are neutral but powerful and the movement of the crashing waves makes for a dynamic painting. This was painted entirely with a palette knife. If you click on the image and enlarge it, look at all the wonderful little accidents that happen when you pull a paint-loaded palette knife across another layer of paint, especially in the upper water area. You just cannot get that effect with a paint brush! This one will stay in my collection for a while.

"What Lies Beneath"

"What Lies Beneath" 8x8" oil on panel - painted with a rag!
I've been doing a few more oils this winter, playing with alternative tools - this one was done with paper towels - and I used a rubber tool with "teeth" to add some random marks/lines. Totally fun to see what kind of effects I can use without using a paint brush. This is part of my Tidepool series...
Available at $250 - contact jen@evenhusfineart.com to claim.

"Unexpected Shelter"

"Unexpected Shelter" is a study in shapes and texture of the sagebrush 

poking through the snow that covers the hillside behind our home.

I used a lot of different colors for the snow - if you compare the white

surrounding this image to the snow, you can see that it isn't just white - it is violet,
blue, gray and magenta! "Unexpected Shelter" is 5x7" done with a palette knife on a
previously painted panel that I sanded off using very rough sandpaper -
it lends a fabulous underpainting texture/color!

See the underpainting and color of snow in the 2 detail photos below. 

"Unexpected Shelter" is available at $200.

Email jen@evenhusfineart.com and I will email you an invoice.

"Overnight Visitor"

"Overnight Visitor" 8x10 ...palette knife on revived panel ... this is the view right outside my studio - you can see the far mountains and some of the orchard behind the grasses.... this surface is an old oil painting that I sanded off, leaving a ghost image - the yellow sky here is totally from the old image - and you can see the texture and colors from the old painting on the left and lower left along with other areas, like the foreground snow if you look closely you can see it peeking through...  I've enlarged a couple areas for you to look at - below: the top one shows some of the underlying texture and how I used the palette knife and punched in some grasses with the palette knife, and the bottom detail shows a lot of the old painting texture and color underneath! "Overnight Visitor" is available at $300 - just contact me and I will email you an invoice.  (c)Jen Evenhus