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Landscape Art
by Janet Tarjan Erl Landscape art has been the one genre I have done the longest. I started painting them when I was twelve years old. I remember my early landscapes were painted from pictures in instructional art books and pictures from magazines. I later progressed to painting on location. Over the years I did a lot of plein air (on location ) paintings. My biggest body of plein air work was done during the eighties, just before I got interested in painting wildlife. In fact, my plein air work is what inspired me to do wildlife art because I saw so much of them while I did my paintings that I started to incorporate them as I saw them – usually from afar. Before long I began to photograph wildlife, and with good photos at hand, I started painting them as subjects unto themselves, especially during winter months when it was too uncomfortable to paint on location. My wildlife art became very popular, and soon it was the dominant genre I painted. Though I’ve done a lot of animal art, the landscape is where I found my most joy. I often created animal art that had a landscape element to it, and sometimes I created landscapes with distant wildlife in them called ‘wildlife landscapes’. Either way, it was important for me to incorporate landscapes whether they were the focal point or the backdrop of a painting. Though I spent many years painting animals, I seem to have come full circle and find I’m now painting mostly landscapes or wildlife landscapes. I’m also painting on location again, and I love it. It’s so inspiring to watch the land change slowly as the sun arcs across the sky and to watch the wildlife carry on with their daily lives.
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49 Palms Oasis	American River Study	Autumn Meadow	Beaver Latticework	Distant Storm Approaches	Duncan Creek.
Edge of the City	Farmyard Reflections	Flooded Grasslandls	When the Geese Come Home	Golden Fields of Shasta Valley	Greenhorn Homestead
View from Greenhorn Ridge	Groose Falls	Harriman Mountain Reflections - Study	Hidden Valley	Honkers at Greenhorn	Lake Siskiyou
Last Rays of Sunset	Loaves of Hay	Lower Klamath Lake	Mist Covered Mountains	Muskrat Island	Old Homestead
ShastaRiver Oxbow	Palisade Creek	Mist Covered Mountains	River Canopy	Rivers Grace	Rooted Like a Tree or Free
Royal Gorge	Shasta O	Mt Shasta Shasta River	Winter Slence - Mt. Shasta	Shasta River Study	Shadows on the Hills
Shorebird Procession	Solitary Egret	Split Rock North	Summer Pastures	Sutter Buttes Snow Geese	Summer Storm
Sunny Rugged Desert	Tranquil Summer	Washed by the Sea	West Shasta View	Yellowstone North	Yreka Creek Valley
Mt. McLaughlin Reflections	Four Mile Lake Study	Holcomb Barn Study	Rocky Point Lakeside	Aspen Valley	China Cove
Wizard Island Study	Pt. Lobos Cliffs	Putnam's Point	Mt. Thielson	Kimball State Park	Shasta River Autumn
Rosy Shasta Sunset	Shasta River Winter	Bandon Beach Monoliths	Bandon Beach Rocky Outposts	Bandon Beach Shorebirds	Death Valley Wash
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