Oak Park Trail

Oil on board
12x12"
 Cheers all.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-stitt/oak-park-trail/687900

Santa Barbara Steps

Oil on board.
8x12"
Sold https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-stitt/santa-barbara-steps/655025
Cheers~

Autumn Daze

So far around here it feels like we went straight from autumn to spring, almost summer. 

I'd like a bit of "snap" in the air for a while.

Did I mention I loooove framing?

Cheers.

Karen

Oil on canvas

12x9"

Framed: total 15x18" 

Available

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Thaw

Hi and Hello
Hope the terrible colds and flu going around haven't affected you all.
Be well.

Karen

Thaw. Oil on canvas. 8x8" Available

Snow Day

Wishing everyone a Happy (and Safe) New Year.
Oil on board
16x10"
Sold

Cheers all.
Karen

Another RR track

Here's an update of how it looks framed. (I've found I LOVE framing!!)

Oil on canvas, landscape, 12x16"

Available

NFS

Chatsworth train tracks

Been a while, hasn't it?

Oil on canvas board
16x20"
And I FINALLY got around to making a website. Yeh!
https://www.karensstitt.com/

Island Palm

Oil on canvas
10x8"
landscape

I love warm weather.
Been very busy. Will post more soon. Smiley face.

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Gull Lake in June

Oil on panel, 8x10", landscape, Sierra Mountains, June Lake, Gull Lake, Mammoth Mountains, summer in the Sierras
Available

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Fall at the Ranch

8x10"
Oil on canvas


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Eat

Sometime ago, we went up to the Sierra mountains, which we do frequently. You grow to know the sites along the route and one of these was the battered Eat sign in the "town" of Pearsonville (believe me, it is not a town. More of a place for tumbleweeds to grow, rather than people)  On the way home, my husband decided to stop to take a photo of the Eat sign, sure that someone was going to take it someday. He was right. It is gone. There was nothing in its place for a while and then a new Eat sign was put up that is sadly lacking in the battered charm of the original. So I painted a portrait of the dilapidated old sign as I last saw it and remembered it. Farewell Eat sign. I hope someone is happily fed while gazing at your rusted words of encouragement.

Oil on canvas, 48x24", landscape. For sale (20% of the sale will be donated to lsscommunitycare.org)

My Hills

Hello,
Painted our hills here. Everything is so, so, so dry and dusty already.
Cheers all.
15x13", landscape, oil on canvas available

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Pepperdine Skyline

My husband took a lovely photo on his cell phone while waiting for the stop light in Malibu near Pepperdine. I enjoyed painting this. Oil on Canvas, 20x13", landscape, available

On a sad note, my 94 year "sound of mind and body" old mother in law passed away. It was all so sudden and tough. She served overseas from the States in WWII as an RN. I love this picture of her. It's my favorite. Hard to imagine she's gone. She was such a fixture in my life.

Love the people who love you. It's easy to be mad at someone you know will forgive you. 

God's peace.

Karen

Camera Truck

Well, I have to say it is quite a pat on the back when someone you love tells you he wants you to do a painting for him. My husband asked me to paint this and wanted it large enough to hang over our mantle. LARGE. Intimidating. I took a deep gulp and said yes and we went out to buy a big (40x30") canvas.

 

Work in progress: under painting with just thin burnt sienna, final layers in only burnt umber, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, the smallest amount of Venetian red and titanium white, all in all about 6 weeks to paint. The burnt umber and ultramarine blue make a nice dark.

We took it to a framer my husband knows well and she did a fab job framing it and touting my work to some of her clients and so who knows, ya know? For now I'm pleased with how it looks on the wall and with a nice confidence booster that I'm growing as an artist.

Happy Thanksgiving to us in the U.S. and happy fall day to those who are not.

I'm grateful for family, friends, home and hearth, and the ability and time to paint.

Cheers all. 

God's peace.

Karen

40x30" landscape, Oil on canvas, NFS

  

Up for luck

Hi and Hello,
Interesting things afoot around here.  I've got my fingers crossed "for luck."
Hope all is well in your world.
Happy Autumn!
Karen

Oil on canvas paint board, 8x10, landscape  I've tinkered with it a bit.

If not for you my sky would fall

I really enjoyed painting this, but I was torn between posting it or tweaking it a tad more. There is just something about seeing it in different light, on the computer, etc, etc. I decided it was better to move on.

Hope your world is bright.
Cheers,
Karen

Oil on paint board, 8x10", landscape, nfs

My Neighbors Mailbox

Busy busy busy
I pass by a neighbor's mailbox that at certain times of the year is nearly overwhelmed by the bougainvillea bush. A bougainvillea has super sharp thorns so I kinda wince just looking at it while admiring it at the same time.
Oil on Fredrix Paint Board (LUV those things!)  8x10" Landscape

I just recently finished reading Rod Stewart's autobiography. Wow. Just as I was wrapping that up, I watched the "rockumentary" about the Eagles. It's called "The History of the Eagles" and after watching that and reading Rod Stewart talk about his life I felt like I'd been whisked back in time to the 70's and 80's, trashing hotel rooms, dating super models and starlets, and experiencing a lot of drugs and alcohol while wearing a lot of leather with fringes and other ridiculous finery. Or... not wearing so much.

Cheers all! God's peaceful easy feeling.
Karen

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-stitt/my-neighbors-mailbox/233583

All Things Must Pass

Been listening to George Harrison quite a bit lately and it seems a fitting title for this.
16x20" Oil on canvas, available for sale

Cheers and God's peace,
Karen

Y B Blu

I never had one of these but I did have a Karmann Ghia. A convertible. I loved it, little rackety thing. After a big rain, when I hit the breaks it would do a slow "slosh, slosh, slosh" back and forth. A woman in a big truck came a little too fast around a corner and climbed right up over the back of it and crushed it all to pieces. I do mean pieces. It had been held together with bondo and duct tape. Sure was a fun little car.

Oil on canvas, 8x10", cityscape, landscape, nocturne, night, Volkswagen
Available
Cheers all, God's peace
Karen

Field Trip

How does it get to be January 10th so fast!!
So about, what?, three years ago or so my husband and I went to Nevada's Valley of Fire. So beautiful! So hot. Wow. But really cool.
So anywhoo, here is Robby the Robot on a field trip.

Cheers all.
Karen

Oil on panel, 8 x 10", landscape
Available