Art – Page 31 – Sequim Daily Photo

Another outdoor vision

Clement Kwan was the second plein air artist I met at the Dungeness Recreation Area on Tuesday, a participant in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s Paint the Peninsula competition. Clement received early art training in China and emigrated to Canada 35 years ago. He is a resident of Victoria, B.C. and shows his art there. Like all the artists I met, Clement was warm, friendly, and engaging.

Here’s is what Clement was working on when I met him. He had started, like the other painters I met, when the day was sunny. While other painters focused on the expansive landscape of the area, Clement found beauty in the branches of a nearby tree.

Here’s what my camera saw. I definitely prefer his version!

Painting the Peninsula

The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is hosting a “Paint the Peninsula” competition this week. Twenty six plein air artists (literally, “in the open air”) have come to town to paint and compete as they create artistic expressions of the great outdoors of the Olympic Peninsula. They came to the Dungeness Recreation Area yesterday and I visited with five of them as they worked. I’ll introduce you to the five I met, along with their work, in the coming days.

I met Jane Wallis, above, first. She has come to the competition from Poulsbo which is about an hour from Sequim. She works in oils, pastels, and watercolor.

Jane did a pen and ink sketch of her intended work before she pulled out the paint.

Here’s a closer look at her canvas. All the artists I met worked on a small scale. They bring paint and canvases for nearly a week’s work so size matters. The artists’ works are hung after they’re produced each day and are on sale at the Fine Arts Center.

Here is my camera’s perspective of Jane’s view. I arrived mid-afternoon and missed the sun all the artists enjoyed earlier in the day.

Blue time

This clock in Port Townsend is decidedly not your typical civic garden variety.

Theme Day: Curiosities

Today’s City Daily Photo Theme is “Curiosities.” I found this assemblage at Port Townsend Gallery. Regrettably, I failed to notice the title of this piece or artist’s name. For today’s purposes, “Curiosity” suits.

To see other interpretations of today’s theme, click here.

Curious but not a curiosity

Like other City Daily Photo bloggers, I’ve been on the lookout for something to post for our September theme: Curiosities. This sculpture in Port Townsend caught my eye on Friday. But I’ve decided it’s more art than curiosity.

I like that at its base it has the look of an alien being.

Rock art

In a friend’s garden.

Blyn again

Yesterday I showed you some of the Jamestown S’Klallam buildings on the north side of Highway 101. Here’s a building on the other side, the South Campus. Click here if you’re interested in learning more about the tribe. In addition to the Seven Cedars Casino nearby, they have a number of local businesses including a medical clinic (open to the general community), deli and gas station, and construction and excavating companies.

This totem pole is located near the Community Center. I didn’t see that there was an information plaque on it until I downloaded this photo so I can’t tell you anything about it.