Landscape Paintings
Most of my landscapes have been painted in the open air. In fact, my holiday tradition for the longest time was to go out painting--to the mountains, to the water...I never knew until I was there.
Christmas day was my favorite, then Thanksgiving. Few other people shared this tradition, so traffic was always 'like the good old days,' and once the right place was found, I could generally paint undisturbed. The biggest challenge, of course, was finding someplace open for breakfast.
I've always painted from an intentionally simple palette. Sometimes nothing more than red, blue, yellow, black and white. I also paint with brushes whose touch I love--whose bristles are long enough to dance on the canvas, and whose width would generally be considered too large for the canvas size and subject matter. Large enough to keep me focused on what really matters.
Viewing my own landscape paintings is like reading a diary. Each one is a page to be read over and over again.
--Don Haggerty
Christmas Hillside
Oil on canvas
8" x 12"
I painted this little piece from the trunk of my car. The Skagit River was to my back, and I remember counting eleven eagles soaring above the ridge as I painted. I know, hard to believe. A lovely Christmas gift, indeed.
Oil on canvas
8" x 12"
I painted this little piece from the trunk of my car. The Skagit River was to my back, and I remember counting eleven eagles soaring above the ridge as I painted. I know, hard to believe. A lovely Christmas gift, indeed.
Two Brush Strokes
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
This one was painted from the front seat of my car.
It was a cold day.
It's the trees and shrubs that gave the painting its title, having been laid down in two strokes--one quick sweep across the canvas to the right for the trees, and for the shrubs in the foreground, a second dancinging-and-skipping stroke to the left.
Then a few more dabs, and that was it.
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
This one was painted from the front seat of my car.
It was a cold day.
It's the trees and shrubs that gave the painting its title, having been laid down in two strokes--one quick sweep across the canvas to the right for the trees, and for the shrubs in the foreground, a second dancinging-and-skipping stroke to the left.
Then a few more dabs, and that was it.
Fireweed
Oil on canvas
8" x 12"
Oil on canvas
8" x 12"
Alder Lake in Summer
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
Alder Lake in Winter
Oil on canvas
8" x 20"
Oil on canvas
8" x 20"
Forest Without Its Glasses
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"
Ashford Winter
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
Thanksgiving Day--2008
Oil on canvas
16" x 10"
Oil on canvas
16" x 10"
Thanksgiving Day--2009 I
Oil bar on hardboard
8" x 10"
Oil bar on hardboard
8" x 10"
Thanksgiving Day--2009 II
Oil bar on hardboard
10" x 8"
Oil bar on hardboard
10" x 8"
Thanksgiving Grove
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
Northstar
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
Sky, Oh Sky
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"
Carnation Valley in Winter I
Oil on canvas
4" x 8"
Oil on canvas
4" x 8"
Carnation Valley in Winter II
Oil on canvas
4" x 8"
Oil on canvas
4" x 8"
From Memory
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"
Oil on canvas
20" x 16"
North Cascades
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
Ebey Prairie
Oil on canvas
8" x 20"
Oil on canvas
8" x 20"
Third Burrows
Oil on canvas
36" x 24"
Oil on canvas
36" x 24"
Blue Sky
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
Oil on canvas
12" x 16"
South of the Keystone Ferry
Oil on canvas
8" x 20"
Oil on canvas
8" x 20"
White Horse Pond
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
Witness the many tiny white dots.
Raindrops couldn't help but
add their fingers to the painting.
Oil and water refuse to mix.
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
Witness the many tiny white dots.
Raindrops couldn't help but
add their fingers to the painting.
Oil and water refuse to mix.
Christmas Celebration
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
The "medium" for this one should actually read,
"Oil, raindrops, random bugs on canvas."
Look closely, you'll see them all.
Such are the joys of painting outdoors.
Oil on canvas
16" x 20"
The "medium" for this one should actually read,
"Oil, raindrops, random bugs on canvas."
Look closely, you'll see them all.
Such are the joys of painting outdoors.
BACK TO TOP
