Catherine McCargar

French Laundry Irises, Original Painting

2023

Artist Comments
"This painting is a closer-up version of an earlier work called French Laundry," shares artist Catherine McCargar. She uses the same technique of priming the watercolor paper with a layer of gesso as the first painting. The process gives more fluidity to the paint, enabling her to execute wet-on-wet and to move it around as she sees fit. Catherine achieves a truly impressionistic painting with contrasting soft and hard edges that keep the viewer engaged.

About the Artist
Impressionist Catherine McCargar expresses her deep admiration of nature through landscape paintings of Northern California. While she is well-versed in a range of media, her preferred medium for painting is watercolor. The fluidity of the paint allows her to capture the muted undertones and the fleeting light found in the natural world. While the backgrounds of her paintings are impressionistic, the foregrounds of her paintings are often highly detailed, showcasing her technical mastery over her medium.

Words that describe this painting: architecture, California, floral, greenery, country, impressionism, architecture, house, home, tree, watercolor, paper, window, architecture, impressionism, watercolor painting, green

French Laundry Irises
Catherine McCargar
Watercolor painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2023
16 in. h x 12 in. w
0 lbs. 2 oz.