Amy VanGaasbeck Fine Art Studio
Painter Amy
VanGaasbeck works with oils, and also does drawings with charcoal and in pen
and ink. She works in a bright sunlit shared studio space in Churchill School in Baker City. Amy is well known for her nostalgic still
life paintings of vintage items from earlier eras, and her paintings of classic
cars using close ups in an almost abstract way and featuring gleaming chrome
and shiny reflections. Her latest focus
is oil portraits of people she’s met on mission trips to Kenya. She is working on the portraits using
reference photographs, which requires special skill to capture the “aliveness”
of the subjects. She also has been
experimenting with taking old paintings or retro paintings and adding a pop
culture reference. Amy sells mostly
online at www.dancingelephantart.com She also shows at Crossroads-Carnegie Art
Center, White House Design, and occasionally at Copper Belt Wine Tasting in
Baker City.
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This display of finished work does include three pieces by her daughter Emily in the lower right.
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A work in progress. In doing portraits, Amy starts with the eyes and faces, and then works on the background top to bottom and left to right.
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Amy uses a fairly limited palette based on skin tones to mix her colors.
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For this project, portraits of people she met in Kenya, she uses reference photos.
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