Black Bird at Beach
Walt Wirfs
Mixed Media
Currently Display at Art Presence Art Center
Main Gallery from Sept 16th to October 2nd, 2022
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Thursday, April 14, 2022
"Mushrooms"
acrylic
Walt Wirfs
23" by 20"
Currently on display at "Hocus Pocus". Galleria at Art Presence Art Center,
Jacksonville, OR
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Recently on display at Rogue Gallery & Art Center
Medford, Oregon--Jan 1, to April 29, 2022
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Photo by Char Wirfs taken at Cape Kiwanda Oregon State Park near Pacific City.
A water color from Charlotte's sketch book.
We had a lot of fun from these little tiny dark mushrooms that sprouted from the sand one very wet December morning. It is believed they came from spores deposited by logs that washed up along the beach and eventually rotted or were burned away.
Friday, April 8, 2022
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Bar View, Tillamook Bay
This is a Plein Air oil painting of the mouth of Tillamook Bay on Oregon's north coast. The wind was blowing off the ocean, right into my face. I was painting on a larger than normal panel, 12x16", so it made a great sail, blowing the easel over twice. I was also dealing with an outgoing tide, so the tide pool in the foreground was draining. The elements finally won the day, so I packed up and went home, returning the next day at high tide. As can be seen in the second photo, I pointed my jeep right into the wind and set the pachade box inside. I would stick my head out and take a view and pull back in out of the wind and paint.
Bar View, Tillamook Bay
12x6" oil on canvas hardboard panel Recently displayed at Ryan Gallery
Lincoln City, Oregon, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, Medford, OR, and Art Presence Art Center, Jacksonville, OR. Currently In Wirfs Studio Collection.
Monday, March 5, 2018
Trinidad
18 x 24" Oil Painting on Canvas Panel
Painting from a great weekend trip to Crescent City and Trinidad, California. This Picture was recently hanging at Ryans Art Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon.
Currently on Display at Art PresenceArt Gallery, October/November 2022 Main Gallery. Jacksonville, OR
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Dirty Shoes
11x14" Acrylic on stretched canvas
Painted for a charity art auction donation. We were all given the same canvases upon which we could paint anything we chose. They were hung to together and open to for bid silent auction. It was a lot of fun because the bidding was open for several days and we could follow the bidding on the internet.
Oceanside at Sunset
24x24 on Stretched Canvas
The last rays of sun on the little village of Oceanside, Oregon. This painting was shown at Ryan Art Gallery, Lincoln City, OR, Rogue Gallery Art Center, Medford, OR, and Art Presence Art Center in Jacksonville, OR.
It is currently in a private collection. SOLD
Sunday, March 4, 2018
Manzanita Beach
Manzanita Beach
Oregon Coast
Oil Painting of Neahkahnie Mountain from Manzanita Beach. 24x24 In on stretched canvas. Painting sold from Ryan Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon.
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Beach Squall
Beach Squall
Oil on Panel
16" x 20" unframed
This painting captures a winter squall coming onto the beach. All I could do was snap a few photos and run for cover. I would prefer to have had the time for a plein air painting, but often nature doesn't cooperate, so it was painted in the studio. I think I was able to capture the immediacy of the moments anyway.
The scene is of the beach near Bob Straub Wayside in Tillamook County, Oregon. The Painting has been on display at Ryan Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon. It is currently in the Wirfs Studio Collection.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Neon Night
Neon Night
Acrylic
Artist: Walt Wirfs
Acrylic
Size: 18" x 24"
Working with acrylics after years of working in oils was a challenge. My goal was to capture the neon glow of a sign at night and felt that I could only do it with the transparency of acrylic paint.
The sign is one of Jacksonville's icons, located on California Street in the center of town. The tavern is always open and always hopping. Jacksonville's historic committee bans the use of neon in the town but this sign was "grand-fathered" in. Originally Jacksonville was a gold town, and a hand-painted depiction of a prospector panning for gold along Daisy Creek was included in the sign.
SOLD
The painting is currently on display in a private collection.
Monday, February 8, 2016
Karnak Plaza, Graphite
"Karnak Plaza"
Graphite by Walt Wirfs
From a photo taken by the artist
after returning from a visit to Luxor Egypt with his son, Matt
Size: 11" by 14"
Has been displayed at Rogue Gallery and Art Center at Medford, OR and at Art Presence Gallery, Jacksonville, OR Currently it in the Wirfs Studio collection.
Finished 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Kiwanda Mist
Kiwanda Mist
Oil by Walt Wirfs
Size: 16" by 20"
Finished Fall 2015
This painting sold at Ryan Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon.
Chetco River Jetty, Oil
"Chetco River Jetty"
Oil by Walt Wirfs
Size: 9" by 12"
Finished Summer 2015
On display at Wirfs Studio, Jacksonville, OR
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