New! Native Plant and Bird Art for Sale in a Tour New Fundraiser
Talented artist Karen Kramer* has offered to provide 30% of each sale of her beautiful artwork to help support the Tour.
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*Great name, but no relation to Tour Coordinator Kathy Kramer
Wilson’s Warbler
9.5″ x 6.5″
Native Garden of Delights
30″ x 23″
Anna’s Hummingbird #2
9.5″ x 6.5″
Allen’s Hummingbird
9.5″ x 6.5″
Monarch on Milkweed
9″ x 12″
Anna’s Hummingbird #1
10″ x 6.5″
Townsend’s Warbler
7.5″ x 7″
Three print options: paper, wood, and canvas
In addition to the original paintings, each painting is available as a Giclee print on paper, wood, or canvas.
1. Giclee prints on paper are archival quality prints on 100% cotton rag, acid free, conservation water color paper utilizing museum quality inks treated to resist fading and discoloration in excess of 75 years and manually adjusted to exactly match the original colors.
2. Prints on wood use the same process but are printed directly on birch frames, typically 3/4 inch deep, and are ready to hang with a single nail. They are finished with a protective coating that is splash resistant.
3. Prints on canvas use the same process but are printed on acid free canvas and stretched on solid hardware stretcher bars, either 3/4 or 1.5 inch thick. The painting image is extended along the edges. They are ready to hang with a single nail.
Prices
Originals (professionally framed)
Birds and monarch butterfly $675 ($747.56 with sales tax)
Native Garden of Delights $1,950 ($2,159.62 with sales tax)
Prints
A. Paper prints
9 x 12 $40 ($44.30 with sales tax)
Available in larger sizes, so long as they are proportionate to the original dimensions. Ask Karen Kramer for pricing.
B. Wood prints
5 x 7 $45 ($49.83 with sales tax)
8 x 10 $75 ($83.06 with sales tax)
16 x 20 $250 ($276.87)
C. Canvas prints
Available in any size proportionate to the original dimensions. Ask Karen for pricing.
Payment
You can:
- Scan the QR code
2) Credit card payment can be made over the phone; you can reach Karen at (510) 421-0100.
Pick up
Artwork can be picked up in Oakland, either at Karen’s studio in Jack London Square (easy, free parking, and accessible), or in Rockridge, from Karen’s home (there is easy parking).
Email Karen at Info@KarenKramerArt.com to set up a meeting time and place.
About the Artist
Karen Kramer grew up in Berkeley and loved nature and art from a young age. She was always drawing and her mother took her hiking and camping. Being an artist was highly impractical, though, so she spent a career as a public interest lawyer and raised a family. Fast forward 30+ years and Karen renewed her training and interest in art, focusing on watercolor media. She employs an unusual approach to watercolors that involves initially pouring paint on the paper—which imbues her work with an element of spontaneity and wildness. She strives to maintain this feeling of movement, so elemental to nature, as she develops the painting. This approach also allows Karen to create beautiful transparent effects only achievable with watercolor.
Karen currently works out of her studios in Studios 11 in Jack London Square in Oakland. Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows locally and nationally, and she has been awarded two public art commissions by the Alameda County Art Commission. Her work is in the permanent collection of Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto and the Stanford Medicine/Sutter Health Cancer Collaborative in Oakland, and it is also shown at the Valley Art Gallery in Walnut Creek. Karen is a workshop instructor at the Richmond Art Center. More details are on her website: www.karenkramerart.com
Karen works primarily from her own photographs and creates her own compositions. In the case of birds shown here, however, she has relied on the photographs of friends. For this series on native birds, butterflies, and plants, she has graciously been given permission to use photographs by talented photographer Susan Teefey and Kathy Kramer. The paintings of plants were inspired by Kathy Kramer’s garden in San Pablo and Stefanie Pruegel’s garden in San Leandro.
Contact Karen Kramer
Info@KarenKramerArt.com
(510) 421-0100 (cell)