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. 



This display of finished work does include three pieces by her daughter Emily in the lower right. 

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.

Amy uses a fairly limited palette based on skin tones to mix her colors. 




For this project, portraits of people she met in Kenya, she uses reference photos. 



























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