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Birgitta Kappe Plein Air Oil Paintings The Bell Tower of San Juan Capistrano Oil on canvas, 20 x 16”, framed, $1400. |
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© Birgitta Kappe Plein
Air Oil Paintings, 2010 |
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Art & Sculpture
Consulting Birgitta Kappe Plein Air Oil Paintings |
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© Art & Sculpture
Consulting, Palm Desert 2010 |
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Birgitta Kappe Birgitta Kappe was born
in Sweden in 1947 and immigrated to the United States when she was 18. It wasn’t until her two children were grown
that she began taking classes at Coastline Community College to fulfill her artistic
passion. Soon she became hooked on
oils—liking the richness of the paint and its opaque and shiny quality. Over the years, Kappe
studied the techniques of such American masters as Windslow Homer, Milford
Zornes, Robert E. Woods and Russian Armenian artist Ovanes Berberian. Today her paintings are bold with color. She has put the unique quality of oils to
good use. She is a self-described
colorist, preferring bright and forthright to muted tonal variations. An enthusiastic “Plein Air” artist,
Birgitta prefers to work directly from nature. Her trained eye and skilled touch with a
paintbrush have enabled her to reach into a landscape and find just the right
nuance of light and shadow, then capture that enlightened moment on canvas. |