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Painting / Watercolor

PCC art galleries

  • A painting of a 4 year-old girl in profile view.
  • A water media image composed of abstracted orgainc forms.
  • A watercolor and gouache painting of a partial portrait and multiple salmon swimming upwards in a curving motion.
  • An aerial view of a white bathtub with red Japanese maple leaves floating in the water.
  • French fries and chopsticks with a toothpick used to dip the fry in ketchup.
  • Painting is of a non binary individual using their computer screen as a mirror. They have long black hair and are wearing a red beret and a multicolored (red, green, yellow) sweater. In their hand is the phone they used to take a photo of themself in the reflection of the computer screen. Their eyes are not on their face, but one is subtly positioned on the lens of the phone camera. The photo includes the screen and part of the keyboard of their computer.
  • There is a lovely set of sun flowers displaying vibrant colors, sitting on a small drawer.
  • This image is of a small dog, and a distant background. Having the dog take most of the canvas space, declares he is in charge of the house.
  • Tree in foreground with golden landscape in background and river.
  • A self-portrait painted in watercolor.
  • An ink and watercolor dual portrait of two women leaning into one another while their eyes are closed, in a moment just before they kiss. One woman is painted in vibrant red, and is tilted up towards a woman who is painted in light blue.
  • A ink and watercolor painting of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Northern Flicker Woodpecker, Great Blue Heron, Northern Shoveler Duck, Osprey, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Stellar's Jay, Red-winged Blackbird, and a House Finch against a gray background.
  • Painting of a hummingbird with the word "trochilidae" written below.
  • A watercolor painting with blocks of purple starting with light values that transition to a dark purple, and lastly orange, the blocks of color are mountains, representing what you would see if looking from a high vantage point from a distance, the sky is stormy and the storm cuts off at the horizon barely touching the tops of the mountains. The water has run down the paper a bit causing slight gradation.
  • Watercolor portrait of a baby with a blank background.
  • A painting in black in white of a warrior woman in heavy armor, holding a lance, standing on a hill with a ocean and mountain behind her.
  • A painting of a young man walking down train tracks holding a skateboard.
  • Hands and a red bass guitar. The musician is wearing a blue hockey jersey.
  • Painting of two women talking, one with her back to the viewers. Painted in a flat style with few details.
  • Vivid and luminescent paint application depicting an asian woman, wearing a fur coat and bright shirt, looking off camera.
  • A dark mixed media painting of a bottle of Dawn dish soap in an apocalyptic landscape.
  • Painting of four women wearing leis. Left to right, Pro Surfers-- Keala Kennelly, Moana Wong Jones, Bethany Hamilton (lost her L arm to a shark attack in 2003), and Bianca Valenti.
  • Impasto style painting, created with intentional jaggedness, and rhythm.
  • Sun rays and blue swirls on a black background.
  • A painting of a winding road leading to the sun.
  • A watercolor painting of a bird's-eye view of a young man laying on his side clutching his stomach on a dirty green tennis court.
  • A watercolor painting of seven eyes of different colors shapes, skin tones and colors.
  • Painting of a campfire.
  • Painting of a woman with yellow hair and head down on her arms.
  • Painting of a couple wearing face masks in a garden.
  • This is a watercolor image of some succulents, a cactus, and a small house figure in a windowsill, dramatically backlit by the incoming daylight.
  • An oil painting using mostly blues and greens, of a mountain landscape and a blue sky. In the foreground there are lots of trees.
  • A still life oil painting of a potted vine plant, two crystal prisms, tubes of paint, and painting tools sitting on a table.
  • An acrylic painting, mostly comprised of darker blues, of a snowy evening drive through a wooded, winding road with cars in the background.
  • Waves in rectangular concentric patterns and a hand in the middle.
  • Painting of a landscape dotted with pencils and erasers.
  • Up close view of a bee who is pollinating purple flowers. There is grass beneath and blue sky behind it.
  • Black, white, and red image is of 2 individuals in a shop, one is reading and the other is onlooking.
  • A painting of the backside of a dark figure in the foreground looking out a bright kitchen window in the background. The light is coming through the translucent curtains around the window. There is a kitchen sink filled with dishes. The dishes and counter reflect the bright natural light. The shadows are pure black while the light is shades of white, gray, and yellow.
  • A painting of the profile of two dogs. A small darkly colored Boston Terrier looks toward the viewer in the foreground while a large Yellow Labrador Retriever in the background widely smiles off to the right. They are closely laying alongside each other on a soft dog bed. The painting is a variety of bright colors. The small Boston Terrier ISpainted with shades of cold blue, black, and dark purple. The big Yellow Labrador is painted with warm yellow, light blues, and warm purples.
  • The painting shows a warm forest scene on a summer's day. There is a dirt path that starts in the foreground and swerves right before disappearing off to the left in the background. There is a shabby wire fence that follows the dirt path. There are a few dark figures of tall sparse trees in the foreground, and many of the same trees in the background. From the top right, sunlight cascades through the trees in the foreground which create beautiful long shadows in the bottom left foreground.
  • A portrait of the late 1940's Jazz singer Nat King Cole.
  • A collage with a cat in the center.
  • An acrylic painting with a black checker board pattern, with pastel pink, pastel purple and pastel blue. Over laying the background there are a few clouds and the bottom part features a highway narrowing to the horizon line. The main subject in the middle of the paining is a deer head mounted on a plaque with green monstera leaves growing where antlers should be.
  • A 3 panel drawing made with chalk pastels. The first panel focuses on the eyes, the same as the face of the child sitting up in the middle panel, and the last panel has the eyes blocked out, on a close up of the face of the child in the middle panel. The middle panel shows a child sitting with hands coming from out of the frame one holding a belt, and pointing threatening the child, the next set is holding open a bible, and the last hand is holding a makeup brush to the face of the child. Each panel has varying levels of paint splattered across them to mess up the images.
  • There’s a close up of a red chair near a table in a green room. There is a piece of paper and there are drawings in pink marker on the page. The drawings start to come off the page and spread over the left side of the piece. There are child-like drawings of a lady bug, a name, a tree, a few flowers, clouds, and a snail.
  • Mixed black and white painting of an Italian mastiff.
  • Ink wash and collage, layers of figures and text, related to HR55, The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Bill.
  • A yellow and gray portrait of a woman recovering from cancer.
  • Watercolor painting of a vase of branches in front of a tapa cloth wall hanging.
  • Brightly colored painting of Sesame Street after a riot, and it has upset the characters.
  • A painting of a close-up view of a drain and the pipe.
  • A painting in two stages with different color pallets, of the Bridge of Tiberius in Italy.
  • A painting in watercolor of a small boy looking at us while holding a bubble containing a goldfish to his chest.
  • A painting in watercolor with ink of a couple linked by symbolic images facing the viewer.
  • A watercolor showing the back of a person in a vivid red hoodie with a hand rejecting interaction with the viewer.
  • A color painting of a young woman in a frontal pose.
  • A painting of a skeleton leaning back with a lit cigarette in its mouth.
  • Blue skies, swiped with white whips of clouds, over a grassy park dotted with trees.
  • A silver lamp post lines the left side of the painting, with the road stretching forward, towards a distant mountain range.
  • A painting with the mother color as blue. There are three figures in ski gear with first one taking the selfie and other two standing behind. A mountain, trees, and the ski lift is in the background. There is snow everywhere.
  • A painting with the left figure standing listening to the sitting figure playing a tune on a guitar. The left has blue tones and the right side has orange tones.
  • A painting of four people posing in a hallway.
  • A blonde woman in a red shirt looks out from the canvas. On her head and shoulders are three chickadees.
  • A simple cactus in a terracotta pot is resting on a blue table with a gray background.
  • A snowy mountain-side is bathed in orange light. On the right side of the painting a giant moon rises over the mountain.
  • A watercolor landscape of trees on a sunny day.
  • Four paintings of the same landscape on four consecutive days.
  • A painting of a creek running through some bushes with houses in the background.
  • A black and red portrait of Dracula, on a horizontal stretched canvas, the background being pure black, he is slightly off center to the left, and red light lays across only the middle of his face, being the brightest red, and the rest being darker reds and black.
  • A landscape with a hills and a house in the foreground, and in the background an ocean and sky colored with vibrant blues and oranges.
  • A doorway with multiple figures.
  • A angelic non binary deity emerging in a rainbow fire of spring flowers surrounded by creatures.
  • A goddess walks through a stardust field of cosmic eggs surrounded by dancers of all kinds.
  • Colorful weathered hydrant against grungy concrete background.
  • A painting of a wood cutting board that is covered with pomegranate slices, skins, seeds, and a knife in the bottom right corner.
  • A painting of a woman's very messy room: the ground is littered with trash, bottles, and kitchen wear; the woman lays on her bed in the upper left corner looking at the viewer with a tired expression.
  • A green apple sitting alone on a red surface in front of its shadow.
  • An oval plate with blue flowers holding two halves of toasted bread and a small white bowl of red-orange tomato soup, with the silver handle of a spoon sticking out of it.
  • This collage shows a man in dark clothes kissing a woman in a white dress.
  • A young man holds and kisses a young woman in downtown Portland at night.
  • A woman and a dog are seen from the back, looking out a sliding glass door to an outside deck.
  • There is a view across the street of a corner and a bit of a crosswalk with the sidewalk hidden by a thick mass of blue iris and yellow-orange poppies; above them the plum trees have already dropped their blossoms and have green-bronze leaves moving in the breeze.
  • A portrait of butterfly with wings lined in black colored purple, turquoise, red, yellow, cream and orange over a background of poppy stems and blooms with a black outline of trees against a bright blue sky in the distance.
  • Mid-morning sunlight is striking the front of a blue glass vase with bunch of orange-pink carnations on a stainless steel counter set in front of a window with an indigo frame.
  • A dark figure in a dark room is looking out a window at a landscape in dim light.
  • In a room, a group of people are standing and talking to each other.
  • A man is sitting at a dining room table at night while across from him, a woman slices gimbap.
  • A vertical water color painting of poppies, lavenders, and tulips.
  • A still life acrylic painting with a dark teal background representing drapery. Central to the image is an altar with a bright yellow candle on the left with carved flowers, in the center is a string of pearls plant whose tendrils lay over the entirety of the alter. In front of the plant is a small pink prism stone. To the right of the plant is a number 6 domino piece. The bottom of the altar features an antique silver cigarette case, to the left of the cigarette case is citrine stone.
  • A colorful drawing depicting a rocky landscape, a cactus and a field of flowers. The figure of a woman is in the center. There is a yellow globe over her head featuring three stick figures. White veins descend from the globe down her body.
  • Colorful drawing featuring six fish.
  • A blue fish with a green background covered with clusters of mushrooms.
  • An oil painting of a still life featuring three objects, an animal bone, a cauldron, and a glass bottle containing herbs atop a table with a purple background.
  • An oil painting of a city scape at night through the perspective of a window. I experimented with more abstract shapes and colors with accentuated brush strokes, creating a sense of dreaminess as if someone who had just woken up and hadn't yet wiped the sleep from their eyes peering through their window.
  • An oil painting portrait with bright yellow lighting illuminating a young women tied in a decorative and mildly constricting shibari chest harness, she looks away from the viewer her tied chest prominently facing the onlooker.
  • Portrait of woman with embellishments and yellow background.
  • Still life of blocks and boxes with additional shapes and motion strokes.
  • Portrait of a man with a mustache in front of a colorful pattern.
  • Two hummingbirds flying in front of a cluster of pink flowers.
  • A colorful painting of flowers.
  • Black and white painting of Josephine Baker smiling wearing white fur and a beaded dress, seen only by its strap. She has a 20s style finger wave with a single curl in the center of her forehead. Her eyes are dark with coal makeup and her lips are very dark as well in a theatrical style makeup for stage.
  • A black and white cow laying sideways facing a tree in a pasture.
  • A top-down view of an imaginary field of flowers showing a yellow jacket, box beetle, and ladybug.The flowers in orange, red, yellow, and gold are on a green background.
  • Painting of a man in the traditional Mexican Charro attire, with shadows cast across his upper body and face.
  • Painting of an older Mexican man wearing a denim fleeced jacket with a white tejana looking down at the road as we walks. He has deep wrinkles on his face and pursed lips.
  • Painting in black and white, depicting of a little girl wearing a traditional Mexican embroidered dress with a candle in front of her.
  • A black, white, and yellow painting of a silhouette figure seated in a dining room holding a vinyl record in the air.
  • A painting of a blue vase filled with sunflowers against a field of sunflowers and a brilliant blue sky.
  • A watercolor painting of a crane standing in water with a blue sky above.
  • A painting in vibrant shades of magenta and green of a bored-looking person facing forward
  • A painting of five people gathered on and around a couch, in varying shades of cool neutrals.
  • A painted collage of the sun setting, made up of many little vibrant strips of multicolored paper.
  • A painting image of a pink ice cream cone in a black garbage can that is melting, with a cherry resting beside a melting puddle of ice cream.
  • A painting of a woman waering a black hat, gently placing her hand on her cheek.
  • A painting displaying a large gray Tiger Oscar fish with a glowing amber body, bubbles scattered on and around the fish, with a bed of gravel inches below the fish.
  • A painting of a bouquet of flowers with a mint blue stained vase on top a rounded wood table with a light blue wall behind it.
  • A painting of the milky way with primary purple colors above a river that reflects the stars and Milky Way above. In front of the Milky Way is the silhouette of tress and hills.
  • A painting or an armless, legless female statue, obscured by shadows.
  • A painting of Selena Quintiallia using acrylic paint, pens, and a Sharpie with a rose backdrop.
  • A painting of a peaceful and hopeful woman with vivid blue blue hair and white sparkles coming out of it against a blue mist backdrop.
  • A bunch of abstracted red flowers on a abstract background of blues and greens.
  • Painting of night sky with green tree in the foreground.
  • There’s a hole with blue pain around it to describe a hole in my heart (blue) for cold heart. I applied words that were alive in my soul to the canvas to express my pain.
  • A multicolor painting of charcoal, a pair of scissors, fruit, and a metal clip on a purple and tan background.
  • A watercolor portrait of Lady Liberty voting by mail.
  • A gouache painting about a girl escaping as the world crumbles around her.
  • An ink and watercolor work depicting a faceless and heartless person as they are strangled by a dark shadow.
  • A painting of brown-and-yellow bananas on a pale brown wooden surface, three stood up in a bunch on the left, one on its side in the lower center, and one on the right that has been halfway peeled and cut into slices.
  • A painting with a stylized yellow figure in the center of spherical colors, mostly red, radiating outward.
  • Watercolor of Joshua tree landscape at twilight and a highway going off into the distance with the overlay of the Integratrons ceiling as you would witness it laying down for a sound bath.
  • A still life painting of a light tan high heel, gold tie, wine bottle, and ring box with ring sitting on table covered by a light blue cloth.
  • An oil painting of a boy holding up a towel for a girl as she exits the ocean with wet clothes.
  • A mounting hill in Greece with a chapel at the top.
  • A mixed medium painting and collage of an explorer and a pilot with travel gear and books with a blood-red background.
  • A still-life oil painting of a vase of flowers in pinks, greens, and blues, with a purple background, based on a painting by Cezanne.
  • Painting of striped vessel with red apple and cat tchotchke.