Sara Qualey Paintings

Last summer we had a great crop of beets in our garden. They made an irresistible subject for painting. The grays of the newspaper set off t...

Every year our local art gallery, Art Beat of Hayward, organizes an exhibit celebrating a color. This year's color was lime green. Every...

I've always been interested in using patterned fabric in my still life arrangements. It's a challenge to combine and paint two-dim...

Last June my friend Judy and I enrolled in a 2-day plein-air painting workshop at the Peninsula School of Art in Door County, Wisconsin. Our...

During the past year I've experimented with acrylic gouache. It's a water-based opaque paint that dries to a matte finish. Unlike tr...

I continue to focus on composition in my paintings. That is the basic structure of the painting. When the composition is strong it attracts...

I'm happy to announce "Colors of Summer",  an exhibit of my paintings at Firefly in Cable, WI.   Summer is here and I'm...

In October I attended a workshop designed to help representational painters think and work more abstractly. Our instructor was the painter M...

After 10 successful years, the Blue Moon Artists have decided to discontinue the Blue Moon Art Tour. It has been a wonderful experience to w...