Category: Paintings

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LaQuats, Innocent!, oil & mixed media, 10.5×16.5

Original Painting by Christine White Art, Paint Harmonic, titled, "LaQuats, Innocent!", oil on paperboard, photography & acrylic, 10.5x16.5 inches

This and its corresponding piece “LaQuats, Pure” are the first of a series where I use repurposed paperboard as a base and creative conversation. In this case, the base is a LaCroix sparkling water box, adhered to a canvas that has my original photography of our loquat tree. On the cardboard part, a separate part of the same tree is painted in oil.

An interesting thing about the original LaCroix box is how many times the word “innocent!” appears (with the exclamation). It makes me smile, because I truly wonder how many people feel not-innocent when drinking bubbly water?

This piece has finished, gallery wrapped sides and thus is ready to hang without a frame.

Price: $300

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Vanishing Tracks, handmade paper mache mask

Vanishing Tracks, Handmade Paper Mache Mask, Christine White

Snow leopards have been my favorite animal since I was nine years old. The book “Vanishing Tracks” by Darla Hillard had just come out then. I was captivated by the story, the beauty of these cats, and what Darla conveyed about their elusive lives.

Years later I got to meet snow leopards in real life at a big cat conservation facility. A dream come true. They were just as majestic as I had imagined.

This mask is about a love for cats, big and small, and a respect for wild animals whose world we touch through sprawl, industrialization, and environment decisions. Not getting preachy here – its just a paper mache mask – but I do feel a sobering, solemn spirit when I wear this one.

The mask is handcrafted from scratch, using paper mache, upcycled cardboard, plastic, and guitar strings for the whiskers. It is painted first with acrylic and then with oil paint. You can see through the eyes (the holes are in the pupils), and breathe through the leopard’s nostrils.

All solemnity aside, I love making masks and want to make custom ones for people. Is there an animal that has been meaningful to you? Let’s dream up a gorgeous mask that embodies their spirit.

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Goblin, handmade paper mache mask

Goblin, Handmade Paper Mache Mask, Christine White

I really want to make masks for music videos or masquerade parties. Creating an original design that is absolutely transformed by the person wearing the art is mutually rewarding! The mask gives permission to take on a new persona; the wearer brings their own personality and energy to the costume. Every combination of mask and wearer is unique, and its a joy to see the masks come alive.

This is one of my favorite masks. Although it looks a little scary, every time it is worn the person is transformed and has a unique look. It blows my mind; its the same mask, but worlds different from person to person.

Inspired by watching Jim Henson’s “The Labyrinth” at least 300 times growing up, this mask invokes a curious, good-natured rabble-rousing spirit. It is 100% hand crafted with paper mache, upcycled wire, upcycled plastic, and painted with acrylic and oil paint.

If you’d like to commission a custom mask for any occasion, contact me and let’s dream up an amazing one!

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Felix, handmade paper mache mask

Felix, Handmade Paper Mache Mask, Christine White

My grandmother had a siamese cat named Felix. He was with her for 18 years, and part of every visit we made to her home. Masks are a way to become someone else – another creature in this case, catlike, mysterious, and playful. The mask is 100% handmade by me, built from layers of paper mache, finished with oil paint and then varnished. It has a tie ribbon and is ready to be worn, or displayed as a sculpture in its own right.

Pricing Information: $90 USD

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Sea Nettle, Gas & Metal, 27×12, oil on paperboard

Sea Nettle, Gas & Metal, 27x12, oil on upcycled paperboard, Christine White

Painting on unconventional surfaces has always been interesting to me, and upcycling is important to my life philosophy and artistic practice. This lively, lush painting of sea nettle jellyfish is presented on a box that once housed a metal gas can. The composition featuring the two jellyfish leverages image components and catchphrases printed on the original box. The bottom and top edges of the box are left raw, exposing the corrugated cardboard.

Miniature /

Estuary – Morro Bay, 8×8, oil on panel

Estuary - Morro Bay, 8x8, oil on panel, Christine White

A gorgeous sunny afternoon with clouds dancing overhead, painting from the marshy shore in Morro Bay. Watching the ducks and egrets alight and take off was as much a joy as painting this scene.

Pricing Information: $175

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SOLD – Promise, 14×18, oil

Christine White, Paint Harmonic - "Promise", 14x18, oil on panel

It is 6 AM and the air is cool and fresh. As the sun begins to bring a warm tinge to the blue night sky, everything is quiet save for the bees and occasional hummingbird visiting this tree.

This piece was started from a live painting session with my favorite fruit tree, a glorious grapefruit that yields delicious pink fruit in January. By April, its already blossoming and preparing for the next round.

Featuring delicate blossoms and layers of backlit and skylit leaves, this piece is painted on a wood panel with a 1-inch finished wooden edge. Thus, you can choose to hang it with or without a frame.

Pricing Information: $800 USD

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Desert Birds, 18×14, oil

Christine White, Paint Harmonic - "Desert Birds", 18x14, oil on panel

The glowing dawn over distant hills chases the remaining stars, and reveals a mature Bird of Paradise plant on the edge of a mysterious pond. The pond reflects not the blooms and leaves of the plant, but instead wind mills. Growing from the plain like giant metallic flowers, they are mesmerizing in the morning light.

The Bird of Paradise was painted from life, and the wind mills are inspired by the wind farms along I-10 on the way out to Palm Springs. Smooth layers in the water contrast with expressive and careful brushwork in the plant. This piece has a sense of peace, despite the slightly surreal visual puzzle it presents.

Pricing Information: $700 USD

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Fire Mountain, 42×36, reverse paint on glass

Christine White - Paint Harmonic, Fire Mountain, 36x31, reverse paint on glass

This piece alludes to the cycles, mystery, and destruction of fire. To see our mountains on fire in this region is unfortunately not a rare occurrence.

Even though the topic can be somber, I truly love this piece. I love its colors and patterns. This piece has a lot of who I am in it – cycles and mystery too.

It is also one of few reverse paintings on glass that use a unique, painstaking multistage acrylic process to create its texture. This piece should be displayed with light shining on it, not through it, even though it is painted on a repurposed window. The light will then catch the textures in the acrylic layers, and they will shimmer.

Pricing Information: $3450

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Inland Empire Light, 36×36, oil

Christine White - Paint Harmonic, IE Light, 36x36, acrylic and oil

This piece and its sister painting (“Inland Empire Night”) have lively movement in the background, and catch a general spirit of movement as they were begun in live music settings. Finishing work in my studio took care to not lose the initial energy of painting around music and sound.

Pricing Information: $1750

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Inland Empire Night, 36×36, oil

Christine White - Paint Harmonic, IE Night, 36x36, acrylic and oil

This piece was has lively movement in the background, and catches a general spirit of movement as it was begun in a live music setting. Finishing work in my studio took care to not lose the initial energy of painting around music and sound.

Pricing Information: $1750

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I-10 East, 25×35, reverse paint on glass

Christine White - Paint Harmonic, I-10 East, 21x31, reverse paint on glass

This could be any number of freeways heading East in the morning, when the sun is breaking over the mountains and silhouetting the trees. The morning light catches on hills and curves in the land, and slightly lights the freeway and early travelers.

This piece is a unique reverse painting on glass, in that the technique used to create the rich texture in the nearby hills is a painstaking multistage acrylic process. This piece should be displayed with light shining on it, not through it, even though it is painted on a repurposed window. The light will then catch the textures in the acrylic layers, and they will shimmer.

Pricing Information: $1900 USD

Medium Scale /

Reptile Green: Forest, 10×8, reverse paint on glass

Christine White - Paint Harmonic, Skin: Forest, 10x8, reverse paint on glass

The green tones in this skin recall a snake, a dragon or even an alligator. This piece is a reverse painting, first created with a skin texture and then more layers painted over it from the back side of the glass.

Due to the fragile nature of painting on glass, this piece – like all of my glass pieces – comes framed.

Pricing Information: $230 USD

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Reptile Red: Fire, 10×8, reverse paint on glass

Christine White - Paint Harmonic, Skin: Fire, 10x8, reverse paint on glass

Perhaps it is a dragon whose beautiful red skin glows so warm. This piece is a reverse painting, first created with a skin texture and then more layers painted over it from the back side of the glass.

Due to the fragile nature of painting on glass, this piece – like all of my glass pieces – comes framed.

Pricing Information: $230 USD

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Circles of Sound & Light, 12 inches, oil

Christine White, Paint Harmonic - Circles of Sound & Light, 12 inch round, oil

Original oil paintings, these pieces combine a musician’s tool with a painter’s tool: the circle of fifths and a color wheel. They are truly functional art pieces, useful as a tool for composing whether you are a musician, a painter, or both. The markers in the photo are there to show the size of the pieces.

The twelve tones in diatonic music theory and the twelve colors in a color wheel are portrayed together with other visual elements that make each piece unique. One piece features phases of the moon. Another features thickly painted golden textures. All four pieces have a twelve-point star hand-sewn with thread in the middle. The star’s edges point to different combinations for planning a color scheme: triads and tetrahedrons.

Each piece is painted on a 12-inch diameter archival canvas that has a sloped, rounded edge. They are ready to hang with no need for a frame.

Pricing Information: $225 USD, each

Some close-ups of the hand-sewn stars and paint texture:

Christine White, Paint Harmonic - Close Up, Circle of Sound & Light
Christine White, Paint Harmonic - Close Up, Circle of Sound & Light
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Scales & Sound, 27×23 inches, reverse paint on glass

Christine White Art, Paint Harmonic Scales & Sound, 27x23 inches, reverse paint on glass

This piece and its sister piece “Dissonance, Resonance” are a mixture of many things that I love: music themes, the harmony of movement and color, shiny iridescent paints, and painting on glass.

This piece explores the rhythm repetition and variation of shapes – the relationship between the three fish, the water bubbles, and then the more organic shapes in the iridescent paint that surrounds them. There is a five-cord braid made of painted guitar strings suspended behind the painting – this creates the bass clef of the musical staff. Painted wooden beads and brass bells represent musical notes but also the sound of water and even the silence of bubbles floating in it.

Pricing Information: $1800 USD

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Dissonance, Resonance – 27×23 inches, reverse paint on glass

Christine White Art, Paint Harmonic Dissonance, Resonance, 27x23 inches, reverse paint on glass

This piece and its sister piece “Scales & Sound” are a mixture of many things that I love: music themes, the harmony of movement and color, shiny iridescent paints, and painting on glass.

It explores the rhythm of repetition and variation of shapes – the relationship between the three fish, the water bubbles, and then the more organic shapes in the iridescent paint that surrounds them. There is a five-cord braid made of painted guitar strings suspended behind the painting – this creates the treble clef of the musical staff. Painted wooden beads and brass bells represent musical notes but also the sound of water and even the silence of bubbles floating in it.

Pricing Information: $1800 USD

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Valley Velvet, 16×12, oil

Original oil painting by Christine White Art - Paint Harmonic, titled "Valley Velvet", 16x12 inches, oil painting on cradled wood panel

These irises were painted from life in my yard and then finished in studio. I paint flowers, landscapes and people from life every spring as a way to celebrate my birthday: new life all around, and a shiny new year for me. This piece is meant to evoke a sense of serenity, partnering a waking city and blooms anticipating the rising sun. The palette is purposefully limited to accentuate the deepness of the violet petals, the gold in the iris beards, and the twinkling lights in the background.

Pricing Information: $650 USD

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Jewel & Legend, Koi – 20×16, oil

Christine White, Art - All the Jewels, 20x16, oil

This piece brings together a painted-from-life set of yellow lilies and a scene I photographed from a local koi pond. The design of the piece is meant to invoke pattern, mystery, and balance.

It is oil on an archival wood panel with a 1″ cradle, ready to hang as-is or frame.

Pricing Information: $975 USD

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Rhythm Connection, 24×12, oil

Christine White, Art - Rhythm Connection, 24x12, oil

A year ago, I began learning to play the drums. It is a slow hobby for me – in that I don’t practice as much as I should if I wanted to actually play the drums.

That said, learning has given me even greater appreciation for the rhythm section in a live performance. I had originally created this painting to focus on just the lighting and the drum set. But the deep connection that music artists have with their instrument, bandmates, and audience required a more intimate imagery.

Paint is applied in varying depths in this piece: thin to convey light and atmosphere, and thick to lay down the colors of the heart.

Pricing Information: $975 USD