Thursday, February 9, 2012

Some of the critters I painted on the Randall Children's Hospital Healing Tree Panels....

Check out the recent feature on Oregon Live.







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A few watercolors I have hanging around....

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark
Wildflower Farm


Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark
Pool House


Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark
Santa Monica Patio




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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

TiE incubation space lounge....

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Open Eye Art was asked to transform a simple office space into an inspiring lounge  for the TiE Westside Incubator space at Sunset Center in Hillsboro Oregon.
Here are some of the pictures from the space.  The most creative aspect of the whole project was what we were able to do in very little time with a very slim budget!  What Open Eye Art and
Melvin Mark Companies accomplished in the space was a sheer miracle!
Melvin Mark Companies did an incredible job pulling together a beautiful project that is affordable, well managed and perfect for the innovative high tech community of Hillsboro.

I can't wait to hear about the amazing high tech innovations and businesses that will be formed in this incubator.  There are a lot of brilliant infant companies blossoming in this amazing space.

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The creative wall has lots of art supplies to help the innovators illustrate their ideas!

Designed and hand painted by openeyeart.2011
Engineers love their white boards.  They wanted a big one for this incubator lounge so Open Eye designed our "Cartoon thought bubble board " to add a little fun to something  that is normally so mundane. 

Original acrylic by Jennifer Winship Mark
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Because the budget was so small I had to hand paint the art myself.
This is my idea of an entrepreneur in the TiE Incubator Space ( quite handsome, don't you think?) 

Original acrylic by Jennifer Winship Mark
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Here is another original I painted on a dictionary page.


All the many artists that added their touch....

 
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Bouncing through Life Panels
(partner in Open Eye Art, Juliet Moran working away)


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The amazing Legacy Employees
drawing their unique images.


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Legacy employee adding his "fish ball"



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Me working away in our cold studio space.
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Collaborative art I created with the Legacy Hospital employees last month....


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Healing Trees
This is a detail from a series of birch panels that are
painted in acrylic depicting a clump of aspen trees. First we painted the trees then brought them into Legacy and performed our Open Eye Art Transition workshop . Legacy employees, staff and doctors learned about using words as art. Each tree scar became a canvas and place for each person to pay tribute to someone special or just give some valuable healing and life advice. It was a very touching and moving workshop.Legacy now has a series of 6 large panels (4' x 6') that can be hung vertically.  They are not only beautiful but grand and full of inspiration.


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Bouncing Through Life
This is one panel from a series of birch panels that are painted with acrylic and a special water soluble crayon. Each employee was able to add their own unique ball. The amazing thing about this series of panels is their sheer size. Each of the 6 panels is 4' x 8'
Most likely this artwork will be hung sideways going down a long corridor. Can you imaging 48' of bouncing balls? Talk about "fun energy"!


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Kevin Norwood, Emily Sasser, Cathy Christensen, Edna Kimmons

Butterfly and Bug Silhouettes
This is one of 15 canvases painted by the Legacy employees, staff and doctors . Each canvas was created by a team of 4 individuals. Open Eye Art later took these back to the studio and painted the black silhouette around each colorful image. All of these were painted silently with beautiful music and a sense of adventure.
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Monday, August 1, 2011

Oregon Watercolor Society Submission.....


Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark
I am such a procrastinator!  I had until 8pm tonight to get this 
watercolor completed for the WSO show coming up in Sunriver Oregon this October.
I finished the piece at 7:50- photographed it and entered it by 8:04.
It will be interesting to see what happens......
This is a portrait of my daughter, Laura.  A couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of picking lavender out in Yamhill , Oregon during the Lavender Festival.  It was breathtakingly beautiful farm land.
I combined a photo taken of Laura looking into the sun while standing overlooking the Arno River in Florence  a couple of years ago. 
Keep watching because I am working on some new landscapes currently.
I will post as soon as I have something!




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Big Eyed girls.....

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark
I am a big admirer of Sas Christian's large oil paintings.
Here are a few I experimented with using watercolors.

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

Oil Pastel and graphite on wood

by Jennifer Winship Mark


Oil Pastel and graphite on wood

by Jennifer Winship Mark
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