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Original Oil Paintings of Underwater Marine Life from Northern California Dive Sites  Click on any picture to ZOOM
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Ling Cod in the Kelp 36"Wide x 60"High original oil painting available
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California Kelp 36"Wide x 60"High original oil painting available
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Kelp in Monterey Bay 30"Wide x 30"High original oil painting available
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Kelp Forest in Monterey Bay 36"H x 18"W original oil painting available
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Sea Surge in the Kelp Forest 48"Wide x 24"High original oil painting available prints available | |
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What's a giclee print? Click here for more information.
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Giant Purple Sea Star 24"Wide x 24"High original oil painting available prints available |
Spider Crab in Monterey Bay 24"Wide x 22"High original oil painting available
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Harbor Seal in Monterey Bay Kelp 28"Wide x 32"High original oil painting available Featured on the January, 2006 cover of California Diving News Click here for more info.
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Rainbow Starfish in Monterey Bay 20"Wide x 20"High original oil painting available prints available Featured on the December, 2002 cover of California Diving News Click here for more info.
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Looking Up at the Boat 48"Wide x 36"High oil painting on linen covered birch panel original oil painting available
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Harbor Seal in Undersea Rocks 24"Wide x 22"High original oil painting available
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Portrait of a Harbor Seal 24"Wide x 24"High original oil painting available
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Charlie's Zodiac on Carmel Bay 55"Wide x 25"High tryptych on three canvases original oil painting available prints available
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Rock Crab and Strawberry Anemones 18"Wide x 24"High original oil painting available |
Spider Crab in Monterey Bay 24"Wide x 22"High original oil painting available
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Green Anemones in the Rocks of Monterey Bay 49"Wide x 21"High tryptych on three canvases original oil painting available
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Hydrocoral in Monterey Bay 16"Wide x 16"High original oil painting available prints available
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HydroCoral - Cold Water Coral 18"Wide x 18"High original oil painting available
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Cabezon in the Kelp Holdfasts 32"Wide x 28"High original oil painting available
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Ling Cod in Dark Mode 28"Wide x 22"High original oil painting available Jury selected as promotional artwork piece for 2003 Bodega Bay Fisherman's Festival
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Red Anemone in Monterey Bay 20" x 20" original oil painting available
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Masking Crab in Deeper Water 20" x 20" original oil painting available
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Starfish Stampede 60"Wide x 36"High original oil painting available
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Blue Rockfish in Monterey Bay 40"Wide x 30"High original oil painting available prints available
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Encounter with a Humpback Whale Mother and Calf From a trip to the Silver Banks (between Dominican Republic and Turks & Caicos Islands) 28"Wide x 22"High original oil painting available prints available
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Shark's Dinner? From a trip to Papua New Guinea near New Britain Island 40"Wide x 30"High original oil painting available prints available
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With this body of marine life oil paintings, all created since 2001, I am endeavoring to recreate the images, colors, and shadows of the undersea world as I've seen it. However, these paintings are not "copies" of my undersea images. I adjust the lighting angles to counteract the effect of strobe lighting, or I remove the artificial light completely and give the painting an underwater feel where shadows are barely evident and contrast is low. Settings are based on reality, I won't create a school of "pretty fish" in a species that never schools. I won't mix marine life into a setting that wouldn't occur. In my painting technique, I don't strive for picture-perfect realism, in fact, many of the paintings work well as abstracts too. The silver thread is that these paintings are meant to resonate with scuba divers and marine biologists. Many paintings are planned for this Northern California series, and with each dive I go on, I have more subjects I wish to paint! Copyright © 2002-2009 by Donna S. Schaffer
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