Walchart Studio: October 2012

Monday, October 29, 2012

Graphite Drawing: Guitar Girl

"Guitar Girl", Graphite Drawing

Artist: Walt Wirfs

Size 11" by 14"

Finished 2009

Framed to a larger size

Children's series #3

Commission

Private Collection

Quilt: Folk Art Crazy

Crazy Quilt

Artist: Unknown

Date Made: about 1967

Size: Full or Double Bed

Purchased by Char Wirfs at a 2009 estate sale in Eastern Oregon

Silk fabrics hand stitched and embellished with embroidery threads.

Displayed at Powder River Threadworks Studio and Gallery at Baker City, Oregon

and Short Term Gallery.

Now in a Private Collection

A block from Folk Art Crazy Quilt

Close up of block center of Folk Art Crazy Quilt. Char Wirfs mended a tiny tear in one of the solid red triangle pieces.

Quilting in America was almost a lost art in the 1960's, before a healthy revival started up in the 1970's. A few quilts exist from those times and are often free-form, colorful, and scrappy.

Quilt: Lone Star

Lone Star Quilt

Artist: Unknown

Hand pieced and hand quilted

Made about 1900-1925

Size: Full size or double bed.

Purchased on line 2001

Char Wirfs Collection

I don't support letting your puppies on your quilts, but mine just won't stay off them, especially when taking photographs.

Lone Star Quilt

Colored Pencil Drawing: Surfer Girl

Surfer Girl: Colored Pencil Drawing

Artist: Walt Wirfs

Finished: Oct. 2012

Size: 10" by 13"; Matted & Framed to 18" by 23"

Part of a series of surfer-related drawings started by the artist during the summer of 2012.

Currently on display at The Corner, Pacific City, Oregon.

Oil Painting: Haystack Rock

Haystack Rock: Oil Painting

Artist: Walt Wirfs

Size: framed, 20" by 16"

Finished: Aug. 2011

From sunset photograph by Char Wirfs taken on a walk along the beach at Pacific City, Oregon in Jan. 2011. Haystack Rock is one of the many large, natural-rock monoliths along the Pacific Coast. These huge rocks provide refuge to many bird and sea-life species and are protected areas. In the 19th century and early 20th century boat loads of tourists would visit the rock shooting as many creatures as they could.

Displayed at Stimulus Cafe Gallery, Pacific City, Oregon,

and Ryan Gallery, Lincoln City, Oregon.
Currently on display at artist's studio.

Here is an up-close view of one of these monster rocks. Notice the evidence of a healthy bird population thickly layered and dripping off of this bird sanctuary located at Cape Mears near Tillamook,, Oregon. Photographed by Char Wirfs, Sept. 2012.

Three Arch Rocks at Oceanside, Oregon. Char Wirfs took this picture Sept. 2012. There is a fishing boat passing on the right.

Goose Girl: Oil Painting

Artist: Walt Wirfs

Finished: 2010

Size: 16" by 20"-- framed to 22" by 26"

From a photograph taken by Marge Matlock, Alaska, 1996. Her granddaughter decided to walk out into a gaggle of wild geese along a stream.

Commission.

Private Collection

Quilt: Caged Star

Size: Photographed on a queen-sized bed, longer lenth indicated it was made for a pillow tuck.

Hand pieced and hand quilted by an unknown quilter

Date Made: about 1925-1940

From quilt collection of Char Wirfs

Purchased 2012 at Palmer-Wirfs Antique and Collectibles Show, Portland, Oregon. The dealer had purchased it three months earlier from an estate sale in Joseph, Oregon

Recently displayed at Short Term Gallery, Baker City, Oregon, Summer 2012, and at Aurora Colony Quilt Show, Aurora, Oregon. Oct. 2012

Ballard Fisherman: Graphite Drawing

Artist: Walt Wirfs

Finished: 2001

Size: 8" by 10"

From a photograph taken by the artist on a visit to Ballard in Seattle, WA. While walking in the down town area he came across this man sitting on a blue and red mail box, smoking his pipe. He also painted this same photograph in oils.

Recently displayed at Powder River Threadworks Studio and Gallery and also the Short Term Gallery