Valerie Orlemann - Gallery 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kaiparowits Shade (Study)

 

oil on canvas panel

6x8”

 

$225

 

 

 

Straight Cliffs (from Rabbit Road)

 

Oil on canvas panel

12x9

 

sold

 

 

 

Slickrock Wash

 

oil on canvas panel

8x6”

 

sold

 

 

 

Red Bluff (and the 50-mile)

 

oil on canvas panel

6x8”

 

$225

 

 

 

Black Spruce Canyon (Bryce)

 

oil on canvas panel

9x12”

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Rabbit Brush Thicket

 

oil on canvas panel

6x8”

 

sold

 

 

 

River Bench

 

oil on canvas panel

9x12”

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Canyon Predawn

 

oil on masonite panel

6x8”

 

$225

 

 

 

 

 

Rattlesnake Knob.

 

oil on canvas panel

8x10”

 

$250

 

 

 

Down Hole-in-the-Rock Rd.

 

oil on canvas panel

6x8”

 

sold

 

 

 

 

 

Alvey Wash Autumn

 

oil on canvas panel

8x10”

 

sold

 

 

Escalante Rim

 

oil on canvas panel

9x12”

 

sold

 

 

 

 

 

Cottonwood

(Hole-in-the-Rock Rd.)

 

oil on canvas panel

8x10”

 

sold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pioneer Ghost

 

oil on canvas panel

9x12”

 

sold

 

 

 

 

South on Center

(Escalante, UT)

 

oil on canvas panel

8x10”

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Sphinx (in Devil’s Garden)

 

oil on canvas panel

6x8”

 

sold

 

 

 

Catching the Light

 

oil on canvas

16x12

$450

 

 

 

South Wall

(of the Escalante River Canyon)

 

Oil on canvas

16x20

 

sold

 

 

2008 Plein Air Award Winner

 

 

South Wall (Study)

 

oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Big Blocks

(On Smokey Mountain Road)

 

Oil on masonite panel

16x20

 

$700

 

 

 

 

 

Big Blocks (study)

 

Oil on canvas panel

9x12

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Early Mist

(on the Main Salmon River)

 

Oil on masonite panel

20x16

 

$450

 

 

 

Under Steamboat Rock

(on the Green River)

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

sold

 

Slickrock

(near Phipps Wash)

 

oil on masonite panel
14x11

 

sold

 

 

Blue Line

(Kaiparowits on a winter afternoon)

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Red Breaks

 

Oil on canvas

18x24

 

sold

 

 

 

Art Residency

 

I was invited to Mesa Verde National Park to be their “Artist in Residence” for the first two weeks of May.  They allowed me to explore 800-year-old cliff dwellings on Wetherill Mesa on my own, and to enter Cliff Palace after hours in order to paint without the distraction of hourly tours.  As Artist in Residence, I lived on Chapin Mesa in a historic Hogan made of native stone and whole tree trunks.  During my two weeks at Mesa Verde I produced a number of studies.  One of these will become a full-sized painting, which I will donate to Mesa Verde National Park to be part of their collection.  

 

 

 

 

 

Sleeping Ute

(from Chapin Mesa)

 

Oil on masonite panel

25x24

 

sold

 

View from Wetherill Mesa

 

Oil on canvas panel

6x12

 

sold

 

 

 

Cliff Palace from the Rim

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

sold

 

 

 

Entering Long House

 

Oil on masonite panel

14x11

 

sold

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spruce Tree House Interior

 

Oil on masonite panel

14x11

 

sold

 

 

 

Long House Interior

 

Oil on masonite panel

14x11

 

sold

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cliff Palace at Sunset

 

Oil on masonite panel

14x11

 

sold

 

 

 

Rim View of Spruce Tree House

 

Oil on masonite panel

14x11

 

sold

 

 

 

Escalante Plein Air (Painter’s Holiday)

 

After I hung the show at the Wine Store in April, I realized that I have plenty of large paintings for my 2008 exhibits.  That left me free to go out and practice plein air (outdoor) painting in and around Escalante.  Here are some of the results.  The studies are mostly 11x14 because I had a windfall of masonite panels to use. 

 

Edge of the Desert

(my back gate)

 

Oil on masonite panel

14x11

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Just Outside of Town

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

sold

 

 

Escalante Barn

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

$275

 

 

 

 

 

Kaiparowits Cliffs

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

sold

 

 

Escalante House II

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Escalante House I

 

Oil on masonite panel

11x14

 

$295

 

 

 

Pet Hollow

 

Oil on canvas panel

12x9

 

sold

 

 

Partly Cloudy

 

Oil on canvas

16x12

 

$350

 

Circle Cliffs (study)

 

Oil on canvas panel

6x12

 

sold

 

 

 

Evening Pennant

 

Oil on canvas

16x20

 

sold

 

 

 

 

 

Mesa (South Caineville Mesa)

 

Oil on canvas

24x30

 

sold

 

 

 

Red Morning at Rattlesnake Knob

 

Oil on canvas

12x16

 

sold

 

Sooner Rocks

 

Oil on canvas

12x16

 

sold

 

 

Cottonwoods
(on the Green River)

 

 

Oil on canvas panel

6x12

 

$60

 

Slow Wave
(Cedar Wash Arch III)

 

 

Oil on canvas

22 x 28

 

sold

 

 

 

 

Mesa

(study)

 

Oil on canvas panel

9x12

 

sold

 

 

Sandstone Fin

(study)

 

Oil on canvas panel

12x9

 

sold

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snow and Shadows - Kolob Canyon

 

Oil on canvas

18x24

 

sold

 

 

Kolob Canyons Road

 

 

Oil on canvas

30x24

 

$1100