Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Karen (Kara) Lemens

 

Karen (Kara) Lemens

O-048 Strawberries-and-Cream by Kara Lemens-$550-oil 9x12

Kara paints life and light in a realistically impressionistic style in oils. She enjoys capturing a variety of subjects—whatever the light makes beautiful or interesting. She tries to convey the impression the subject made on her, using the language of oil paint. She finds that painting from life and all prima (while the paint is wet) best enables her to express that impression.

O-049 Spring-Blush-by Kara-Lemens-$500-oil 8x10

Kara loves painting on location (en plein air) with her border collie, Frisco. She paints primarily in the Texas Hill Country and the mountains of Colorado, but is always up for a plein air adventure wherever life takes her! She also enjoys creating still lifes in her studio, combining the natural beauties of flowers and fruits with objects of timeless beauty, such as family antiques. She wants to capture the conversation between the objects and her feeling of connection to them.

O-050 Carnation-Complements-by Kara Lemens-$475-oil 8x8.

Kara has been juried into many shows in Texas, Colorado, and California. She also has studied with numerous prominent artists and is especially fortunate to have been mentored by Kathleen Dunphy since 2018.

O-051 Beauty-and-the-Brass-by Kara Lemens-$700-oil 12x16

Kara is grateful that her art enables her to share beauty and her experience of the world with others!

T-010 Spring Cheer by Kara Lemens oil 14x11 $675

T-011 A Golden Trio by Kara Lemens oil 12x9 $550

You can find Kara’s art at karenlemensfineart.com and follow her outdoor and indoor art adventures on Instagram @karalemensfineart.

Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Linda Lawrence

 Linda Lawrence

O-063 -Mosquito Lake-by Linda Lawrence 12-x 16-  Oil $375

Always artistic by nature, Linda was constantly drawing as a child, and enjoyed art classes throughout her school years in Soquel and Fresno, California. As an adult, her love of design was explored and expressed through photography, homemade cards, sketches and interior decorating.

O-064 Boards Crossing- by Linda Lawrence 16-x 12-  Oil $375

Linda and her husband, Ron moved to Murphys in 1992, for its inherent natural beauty and small-town lifestyle. As her children grew more independent, Linda was thrilled to begin taking classes through Columbia Junior College around 2000, and first studied with Hermione Rios.

O-065 Wailea Shore-by Linda Lawrence 12-x 9- Oil $275

Linda paints primarily in water-based oils, which she finds to be user-friendly and a bit healthier overall. Through the years, she has developed a playful, colorful style, and had enjoyed and appreciated the influence of instructors Diana Boyd, Susie Hoffman, Sunny Sorenson, Eva Walker, and Judy Cain through Town Hall Arts in Copperopolis. She has also taken workshops from Murphys renowned plein air artist Kathleen Dunphy, and Colley Whisson of Australia at Coastal Maine Art Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

O-066 Icelandic Popptes-by Linda Lawrence 10-x 8- Oil $225

Linda often shows her work at the Calaveras County Arts Council and was accepted to present a painting in their 2017 show, AnimalScapes. She was also invited to show at the Studio 11 Gallery in Oakland, California in 2018, and had her first show at Hovey Winery in early 2020.

Linda is thoroughly enjoying the evolving process of becoming an artist, and the self-expression, freedom, and mindfulness it provides. She considers her fellow artists soulmates and true inspirational treasures. 

Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Tabitha Kremesec

 

T-001 Lovely visions by Tabitha Kremesec 18x24 oil $465

Tabitha Kremesec's preferred mediums are both oils and watercolors. Tabitha loves to create a variety of art such as animals, landscapes and portraits. Animals, landscapes and portraits are her passion.

T-002 Reflections of yesterday by Tabitha Kremesec 18x24 oil $465

Painting is therapeutic in dealing with several disabilities and encouraging that she can overcome limitations. 

O-003 Golden Fields by Tabitha Kremesec 30x40 oil $1840

Tabitha has a unique perspective and loves to focus on capturing the realism of a scene and she loves to paint impressionism art as well. She is very creative and experimental with both mediums together. 

O-004 Up the lazy river by Tabitha Kremesec 40x30 oil $1840

Meet 2023 Spring Obsession Artist Lucinda Johnson

 

Lucinda Johnson                        https://lucindajohnson.com

Lucinda is an award-winning, California-native artist (born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area). Art has always been at the center of Lucinda’s life. “As a child I enjoyed drawing from nature to become familiar with graceful lines, form and space. I am also very conscious of composition, shapes, lighting, and values from my photography education” she says. Through self-taught studies and workshops with professional artists in a wide array of mediums, art has always been a way for me to share California’s unique personality and vistas. Lucinda began experimenting with oils in 2020 and shared “I approach an oil painting with a similar thought process to painting with soft pastels.” When painting a landscape on canvas she first primes the canvas with warm undertones. Additional layers are next added dark-to-light. Using a palette knife she first mixes the correct values on the palette, and then proceeds to paint/blend colors on the canvas (wet-on-wet) or layer/glaze with brushes.

O-076 Mendocino Mist-by Lucinda Johnson oil 4x8 $175

O-077 Autumn Brillance--by Lucinda Johnson oil 4x8 $175

O-078 High-Sierras-Autumn-Glow by Lucinda Johnson pastel 12x16 $1200