The Roadside Artist

Not to be confused with “haystack-kiwanda” the emphasis here is actually on the rock an only the rock. The colors are highly expressionistic, but the rock is fairly accurately rendered I think.

Kiwanda’s Haystack Rock #2
acrylic on canvas board
12″ x 16″

I love the colors of this painting. It’s funny, I heard later the collector who currently owns it (or did as of a few years ago) wasn’t terribly happy with it! Well, there’s no accounting for taste. I wish I had it back, actually.

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It’s real yet unreal all at once. An experiment in oil pastels, the scene is reality but the colors are an expression of the nature of the experience…

Dream Kiwanda
Oil Pastels on Paper
11″ x 15″

People debate the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Expressionism often tends more toward the abstract, while still representing its subject, but the real test of expressionism is how representation is mutated to bring out a mood or feeling. You can see that clearly here.

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The second largest monolith in the world, some say, and it is so near my home …

Kiwanda Clouds
Watercolor
11″ x 15″
(2000)

It’s plain and simple, yet it evokes the turmoil of the seas and changing weather that is the North Pacific.

There are two “Haystack Rock”s in Oregon. The famous one is in Cannon Beach, Oregon … but it is about 1/3 the size of the Haystack Rock at Pacific City. Of course, the one in Cannon Beach is on the beach - the one at Pacific City/Cape Kiwanda is well out to sea, thus most visitors don’t realize just how massive it is.

For me, this is home…

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