{"id":1022,"date":"2022-02-21T23:43:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T07:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/?page_id=1022"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:26:34","slug":"portraits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisdreger.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was taught color by one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bay_Area_Figurative_Movement#:~:text=Among%20these%20First%20Generation%20Bay,Raimonds%20Staprans%2C%20and%20James%20Weeks.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original Bay Area Figurative Painters<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesweeks.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Weeks<\/a>, and painting the colors of Oregon and Washington in the great PNW is a great way to explore the area and the tradition of painting the West.&nbsp; Most of these paintings were painted on location (Plein Air) in one sitting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pacific Northwest &#8211; Oregon and Washington<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was taught color by one of the original Bay Area Figurative Painters, James Weeks, and painting the colors of Oregon and Washington in the great PNW is a great way to explore the area and the tradition of painting the West.&nbsp; Most of these paintings were painted on location (Plein Air) in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1022","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I was taught color by one of the original Bay Area Figurative Painters, James Weeks, and painting the colors of Oregon and Washington in the great PNW is a great way to explore the area and the tradition of painting the West. 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