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An exhibit of inkings and Sharpied ditties celebrating
the misunderstood creatures at Cafe Racer on Thurs, March 7!
Karen Luke Fildes will be featuring original illustrations and native sketches used for the upcoming re-release of The Eat a Bug Cookbook by David George Gordon. Also included will be slimier works from The Secret World of Slugs and Snails along with other choice mini beasts in oil, Sharpie and glitter.
There will be mini beast games, prizes, an auction to help fund darling husband’s beastly medical antics, and there will be music and divine entertainment featuring Operadisiac at 8:30 and The Fabulous Party Boys (!!!!!!) will play at 10:00 pm.
Come join the Party on the first Thursday and bring your own mini beastie friend.
What: A Mini Beast Party
Where: Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA 5828 Roosevelt Way 206-523-JAVA
When: March 7, 6-11pm (or so)… the show will hang through sometime in April
Why: Because although they’re icky, they have a certain elegance that is somewhat uncelebrated.
…for info on the event or to purchase a mini beast, contact Karen at northwestcolor@gmailcom
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 Don's Dance 36 x 48 Nisqually Sky $1100 sold
 Cassia's Assurance, 24 x 30, $820 Sold
 Both Sides Now III 20 x 24 Oil on Canvas sold 
Meadowbrook Bouree 12 x 18 sold
You can use debit or credit through Paypal, just let me know which painting you are interested in. I add for shipping and the painting will come to you within a week.
Contact me at northwestcolor@gmail.com or call me at 206-595-2171.
 LA Arboretum 12 x 16, $420 painted in the spot where Tarzan was filmed frolicking with Jane  Open Sesame 12 x 16 Brilliantly Framed, a rainy day in the Nisqually. $560  Reckon With Honey II sold  Yonder Blues II There were healthy Chinook swimming upward on this day. sold  30 x 40 $800 Nisqually Wildlife Refuge sold  Soft Entrance 27 x 33 oil on Canvas, from the Nisqually Mudflats, one of the first of the Watershed Series Sold  Husg II, Oil 24 x 30, Pleine air in the rain, Nisqually Wildlife Refuge $710 Sold
 Dire's Release $220 From a Tale of Two Watersheds  Woman at the Well VII $125 10 x 10 sold  Barga For Love, Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 $500
 Deluxe Sold  Dogwood - $90 Sold
 Indian Paintbrush (framed) - $165 Sold
You can use debit or credit through Paypal, just let me know which painting you are interested in. I add for shipping and the painting will come to you within a week.
Contact me at northwestcolor@gmail.com or call me at 206-595-2171.
Would you like to schedule a Tailgate Party? Do it!
… it’s an art party in my trunk. If you haven’t had one, here’s how it works.
I come to your home, office or venue and show my newest paintings and prints. I bring a basket with baguette, cheese and a pear and something sparkly to drink. I’ll even bring Cheez Whiz or roasted crickets if that’s your thing. New paintings are now available to anyone at tailgate prices for a short while… If you reserve a get together soon or call to inquire about a painting during the sale, I will honor trunk prices. Older pieces are orphans from previous series along with hidden favorites stolen from the archives. Prints start at $22, oil paintings start at $100. I’m not sure what will be in my trunk when I come to you. I hope to sell everything this summer!
Call Karen at 206-595-2171
or email her at northwestcolor@gmail.com
The catch is:
You let me give my thirty-minute spiel on watershed awareness and I try to turn you on to loving northwest light and the benefits of noticing the changes of the day.
 Interplay I: Peak - $140 Sold
 Interplay III: Riparian - $140 Sold
Interplay IV:Estuary - $140 Sold
 Meadowbrook Bouree $520  Refuge XI Sold  Sea to Sky - $850 Sold  Sigh Sold  Soft Entrance - $800  Sound Passage - $375 Sold  The Way Sold  Thimbleberry - $90 Sold  Tigerlily (framed) - $165 Sold  Yonder Blues - $475
Karen Luke Fildes Celebrates Watersheds, Unveils New Paintings at the Lakewood Gallery at 9514-D Gravelly Lake Dr. SW, Lakewood, WA 98499 on Saturday, November 19, 2011
Landscape artist Karen Luke Fildes will present a collection of recent oil paintings in Walking on Water: a Tale of Two Watersheds, from noon to 8:00 p.m., November 19, at the Lakewood Gallery in Lakewood, Wash.
For the past three years, Fildes has focused on the magic of water, on land, in the sky and beneath the ground, while exploring the wild Nisqually River Watershed and the urban Thornton Creek Watershed in Seattle. “It has been a poetic journey filled with surprises of hope for our Northwest water resources and the plants animals and people they support,” she says.
During her Lakewood gallery opening, Fildes will share personal insights from this journey and explain how others can care for their local watersheds’ well-being. She will be joined by David George Gordon, author of Nisqually Watershed: Glacier to Delta, A River’s Legacy published by the Nisqually River Interpretive Center Foundation and Mountaineers Books. One of her watershed paintings will be offered in a silent auction on that day and the proceeds will benefit the Nisqually River Council.
“The contrast between urban and rural watersheds is impressive, but Fildes has found the most beautiful parts of both worlds,” says Gordon. “Whether portraying the tideflats at the relatively untrammeled Nisqually Reach or the man-made stormwater retention ponds of Thornton Creek, these paintings present the dynamics of our watersheds with clarity of vision and plenty of heart.”
The Lakewood Gallery is at 9514-D Gravelly Lake Dr. SW, Lakewood, WA 98499. For more information, contact the gallery at (253) 584-1774 and info@ lakewoodgallery.com.
Sat, Oct 8 at 6:00 p.m., “Walking on Water” House Concert!
Hosted by David and Kaitlyn Pew, this party will be off the hook!
My daughter, Marian Call, and I are having a tailgate show/concert based on the theme Walking on Water. She is Alaska’s singer songwriter, who delivers spicy folk funk. She’s celebrating the release of her third album,“Something Fierce”… and believe me, it is. It is honest and smart and yes I’m proud. Go to http://www.mariancall.com to see. She’ll sing at 8:00, I’ll show Watershed paintings and give a little talk from my Walking on Water journey, and we will have a funkadillyishous time. This is a Seattle house concert/show in a private venue, so there is limited space. Get your name on the list! It will be a blast. Contact me -mailto:northwestcolor@gmail.com or 206-595-2171 for details and the address.
September 2012 Tailgate Sale is a good one. I have countless authentic works in my trunk thanks to professionally framed illustrations from “The Secret World of Slugs and Snails”, sketches from my current project “The Eat a Bug Cookbook” and several orphan paintings from the “Tale of Two Watersheds” series. I’m an artist and I hope to connect with my audience to preach some wonders. The best time to buy art is now.
… I have an art party in my trunk…
and I want my treasures to come to you.
I come to your home, office or venue and show my newest paintings and prints. I bring a basket with baguette, cheese and a pear and something sparkly to drink.
New paintings are now available to anyone at tailgate prices through the end of September. Others are orphans from previous series along with hidden favorites stolen from the archives.Prints start at $22, oil paintings start at $100. Some of you have asked… some pieces fromPhoshilaron and the Watershed series will be in my trunk. Some of the pieces are featured on my “available paintings” page.
Call Karen at 206-595-2171
or email her at northwestcolor@gmail.com
The catch is:
You let me give my fifteen-minute spiel on watershed awareness and I try to turn you on to loving northwest light and the benefits of noticing the changes of the day.
If you do not live within driving distance, order a painting or commission a piece of your own.I accept paypal and payments. Tailgate season is when I strive to get all of my paintings into people’s hands.
I am waiting for the next series… the next thing to paint. In the mean time I just finished illustrating “The Secret World of Slugs and Snails” or “Life in the Very slow Lane” by my husband, David George Gordon. It can be pre-ordered at Barnes and Noble and it comes out in February.
I finished a series of 500 landscapes … Mostly Northwest landscapes captured in the interest of studying water and light. (Water in the sky, in sea, on mountain, in the dark places where riverbeds hide and up from the ground inside trees and other reaching things.) It was a monumental adventure which has not really been celebrated or revealed due to economic change and various other happenings. The economy was hard on me during these last couple of years… and paint (pure pigment) is now too expensive to purchase while the luxury of having my own work studio is out of the question. After several incidents of theft I was forced to move out of my studio. During this ridiculous eviction I tragically lost the computer holding documents proving my project’s completion. And yet, somehow I remain glad for each moment learned. I learned so much about one thing we all agree to respect, water. And water is about change… which is my story.
I have fallen in love with Sharpie… it is a good instrument for me. Most of my work lately has been done with a Sharpie. See my Sharpie page … maybe I’ll post pics.
I am interested in returning to my love for the portrait and will be accepting winter commissions. I hope to finish my series of fifty virgins in the next two years and consider my current charge as nanny a privilege. It is timely (I tremble at the honor) to be allowed to look inside the heart of a child who has lost a loved one. I hope I am growing in awareness toward a chance to complete my mission with the added integrity of experience. My goal is to help the four children I care for find art, music and awareness during a time of adjustment. I love my life and find the Sharpie a great companion. In the mean time, if you are interested in a commission or looking through my pile of paintings you can contact me at northwestcolor@gmail.com.
I’ve been in the studio laying out color sketches from this past week. I walked down in the Thornton Creek Watershed again yesterday, tracing through the wetlands behind the Meadowbrook Community Center. It was time to pounce since the change of light came this week… everything expands during the autumnal equinox. The moon, the yonder mountains and the color. There was another woman wandering back in the mulched wonderland and she was looking as bewildered as I was at the surprise of the secret park and its peculiar placement-behind the concrete community center. It is an addiction- to find beauty in peculiar places. My son, with all of his quirks, continues to fascinate and even dazzle me and I thought about how good it feels to notice a flashing moment. I worked my way down from Meadowbrook through neighborhoods and into gulches until I found myself at Matthews Beach where the creek enters Lake Washington through a cement culvert. I through down a bunch of color sketches finding olive and gold as the surprise of the day. It smelled like mulch and the blue heron greeted me as usual. There were people around… the kind who know to take time to notice the day.
I love those people who find their passion nurturing a Watershed. It’s a new thing for me… getting down in a creek, with black rubber boots, just to look at the expressions and contour of water flow. It’s something we all agree on; that water is a good thing. For the rest of this month I am immersing myself in water with a celebration on the 30th. I think it’s like a baptism of sorts to paint water and the light that touches it. Right here in North Seattle starting under the Northgate parking lot is a treasure called the Thornton Creek Watershed. And the people who fight and care to honor the water are heroes to me.
I want to honor them by noticing the urban watershed. There are reasons to know where your local water flows, and to take time to watch it and interpret it. It is our life force. Without it we are just shriveled up dead moldy pruny skeletons. So now, I grab a glass of good Seattle tap water and I paint.
These are oil sketches on canvas from my week… they will be completed within the week and will be available over the weekend. I will be showing several new works on October 30th in Walking on Water Gallery. If you cannot attend the celebration, call me to arrange a private showing at 253-677-1621.
If you are interested in a painting, please email me at northwestcolor@gmail.com.
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