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Quiet Exit, 2010. oil on panel 13 x 15 sold

I am very happy to announce that my web site has been completely updated and redesigned. A big thank you goes out to Paul Anderson, my web site dude, who worked very hard to get everything done.

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www.johnkarlclaes.com

Sienna Sunset, 2010. oil on panel. 7 x 8 sold

This is a small picture from earlier this year.

I started painting in earnest about two weeks ago after weeks of prepping canvases. The paint is being flung, and it is already interesting how this work is feeling different. It started with a series of small sketches based on a drive down I-5 this past spring, and I'm twelve paintings in.

I am starting to see the framework for this body of work and I'm struggling with how to put this new body of work into words. It seems like linear thoughts are elusive. The ideas I have of my work are visual which I can not describe it verbally or in written form before I actually do the get them on canvas.

So, stay tuned for more. The show has begun.

Fresh

Redset, 2010. oil on paper 19 x 26. sold

Brand new work.

Prep Time

Last Moments, 2010. 6 x 9. oil on panel

This is a little painting that I finished recently. I'm in the midst prepping around forty panels and canvases...So paintings are coming along slowly. New paintings will be coming soon. I have tons of work to get going on...I'm very excited!

The Bank Job, part IV... the process

Big Red, 2010. oil on canvas. 40 x 60. sold

This is the last painting for the bank. I took a whole series of pictures while I was working on this painting and I thought that everybody would enjoy seeing the process of how the painting took shape.

drawing the composition

laying in the first layer of color

putting in a little red...

refining and adding to the sky

working on the fields

further refining of sky and fields

done.

The Bank Job, part III

Warm Twilight, 2009. oil on panel 24 x 24. sold

Here is the third painting for Yosemite Farm Credit.

enjoy.

Patience...

Big Turns, 2010. oil on canvas 44 x 54 sold

Sometimes they work out better the second time around....you gotta have patience.