Color | Patricia Savage

• Splash

  Pastel, Panel, 16 x 20. Several years ago my husband and I visited the Big Island of Hawai'i with his NCSU Scholars Program. I went for the private trail ride with horses, scenery, chocolate and vanilla! The Hawai'i Tro…

• Icy Shards of Clouds

  Glass, Panel, 18 x 24

• In the Gathering Light

  Oil, Panel, 16 x 20

• Sunset Over the Marsh

  Oil, Panel, 16 x 20

• Little House with a View

  Oil, Panel, 18 x 24

• Shimmer

  Pastel, Panel, 18 x 24

• Peaceful Glade

  Pastel, Paper, 15.25 x 19.25. The landscaping at Kew Gardens (England) are beautifully and artfully landscaped. Trees and bushes are placed in such a way to give a wonderful feeling of tranquility. My favorite tree is a…

• Day's End

  Watercolor, Paper, 13.5 x 21. Back when the trees in my backyard were young, I had enough sun to fill my garden with flowers for the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. I loved the Mexican sunflower because when the sun…

• The Grasshoppers Sing Loud at Mid-day

  Oil, Linen, 14 x 9.25. In Arizona my friend Linda and I found this lovely little spot while hiking in Arizona. There was a small adobe house up the pathway to our left. Along that pathway, bright yellow coreopsis flower…

• Heaven and Earth

  Watercolor, Paper, 21.75 x 29. I have always enjoyed watching clouds float by both in the sky and reflected in water. At first glance, I hope that you think that the sky is behind the leaves. And that the leaves off of…

• Yellow Aspen Glow

  Pastel, Panel, 14 x 20

• Blue and Purple Shed

  Oil, Linen, 20 x 16. In March of 2021, I headed out to Beaufort, NC to stay at a friends house located up the small river between Beaufort and Morehead City. My friend Anita Elder, who owns The Art Loft in Dalonega, GA,…

• Rocks as Fish

  Oil, Linen, 12 x 9. Hiking on a trail that led to the sea in Maine, I found this little pond. The white granite just glared against the trees and other darker rocks.

• High Tide Pile Up

  Pastel, Panel, 16 x 20. While visiting a friend on Deer Island, Maine, long walks along the beach displayed small, medium, and fairly good sized rocks littering the shoreline in a haphazard display of the raw strength o…

• Storm Over Emerald Isle

  Pastel, Panel, 21.5 x 16.75. My friend's house looks out over Harlowe Creek which empties into the Atlantic directly to the south of us. From her house we can see Morehead City and a bit of Atlantic Beach peaking throug…

• Moonrise at Sunset

  Pastel, Panel, 14 x 19.75. Driving back from Santa Fe to my mother-in-law's house in Albuquerque, we came home via the road behind the Sandia Crest. Being born and bred in the east, it took awhile for me to get used to…

• Shadow Patterns

  Pastel, Panel, 9.5 x 11.5. McNairs Stables, located in Wake Co. NC, has many large fields full of horses and open land for people who want to trail ride. While walking on one of the trails, I fell in love with the shape…

• Bermuda Splash

  Oil, 12 x 9. In Bermuda, what I think is lava, provides a striking contrast between the black rock and vivid blue-greens of the ocean.

• Above the Swirling

  Pastel, Paper, 22 x 30. While serving as the naturalist artist during the Harriman Expedition Retraced, https://www.pbs.org/harriman/, I gazed down a crumbling cliff face on St. Paul Island, located in the Pribolofs of…

• Lonely Trees

  Oil, 12 x 9. In 2001 Smith College called to invite me to be their naturalist artist for the 2001 Harriman Expedition Retraced. It was filmed by Florentine Films for PBS. Our journey led us through the Inside pPassage,…

• Between the Shadows

  Pastel, Panel, 13.5 x 18.75. Hiking in the Rocky Mountains in May, I was totally amazing at the amount and depth of snow in late May. Blue morning skies progressed to partly cloudy with short lived snow showers (another…

• Snow This Way Comes

  Pastel, Panel, 18.25 x 24. A late May snow shower in the Rocky Mountain National Park quite startled me. Never before had I dressed in my winter gear to go outside that late in the year. The entire scene just felt so fo…

• Where Elk Roam

  Pastel, Panel, 20 x 16. In the summer of 2019, Will and I traveled to Rocky Mountain National Park. I had never been there before. Fortunately, we had taken our winter clothes! It was bloody cold in late May. In one dep…

• Murie's Cabin in Denali

  Oil, Linen, 8 x 12. In 2014, I was accepted into the Artist-in-Residence program in Denali. I spent 10 glorious days staying in the Murie Cabin deep within the park. I always felt like a very small being in a very large…

• Caroline's View

  Oil, 9 x 12. My friend Caroline owns a cottage in Beaufort, NC. During one vacation with her, a very large storm came roaring through. Working from her deck, I worked hard to try capture the wind blowing through the liv…

• A Streak of Light

  Pastel, Panel. Somewhere in New Mexico, somewhere between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, we began passing undulating hillsides just beginning to be kindled by the setting sun into that glorious evening light. I took many, ma…

• A Bit of Gold

  Pastel, 10 x 12. While visiting my mother-in-law in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Will and I try to hike along the Sandia Crest whenever possible. This particular afternoon the sky was that deep, deep blue you can see there…

• Pecan Grove

  Pastel, Panel, 8.5 x 11.5. Pecan tree groves can be found throughout NC. This particular grove I found on North Carolina State University property off of Method Road. A couple of friends and I painted this grove on from…

• The Old Barn

  Pastel, Panel, 6.75" x 11.5"

• One Towering Storm, One Forming

  Pastel, Panel, 24 x 18. While visiting an artist friend in southern Arizona we traveled around to sketch and paint in various locations close to her home. The monsoon season was in full bloom. In the afternoons large st…

• Building Castles in the Air

  Pastel, Panel, 30 x 20. Many years ago, the city Open Space Division of Albuquerque, New Mexico allocated fields within the city as spaces for the 18,000 Sandhill cranes that overwinter there. The city set aside and man…

• Rainy Day

  Pastel, Conservation Matboard, 8.5 x 13.5. I was invited to give a workshop at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Indiana a number of years ago. We were able to paint outside all morning but in the afternoon - it poured! Ou…

• My Field in the Sun

  Pastel, Panel, 8.25 x 9.75. While driving in Maine, I passed a field just covered in backlit Queen Anne's Lace. They dazzled my eyes, so I turned around and took some photographs knowing at some point they were going to…

• Shadow of a Palm

  Pastel, Panel, 23 x 32. On a trip to Bermuda with my husband, we found this tree with brilliantly white bark nestled in a large bed of naturtiums. The nearby palm's leaves shadow draping across the trunk created a lovel…

• Blue Sky, Blue Bird

  Pastel, Panel, 10 x 8

• Falling Water

  Pastel, 20 x 16. I fell in love with the softness of the understory plants at the top of the falls and they different green hues of the trees in the foreground. The deep sound and the hiss of this narrow tall waterfall…

• Sky Glow

  Pastel, Panel, 12.25" x 10.25". This pond, painted plein air, is located at Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. The blue sky had some small cumulous clouds and quite a few silvery, flat clouds that added interesting color to t…

• Shadow of a Rose

  Oil, Linen, 9" x 9". When I got married, my Mom gave me a shoot from her rosebush, that had come from her Mom's house that sat across from the Potomac River where Mom grew up. This old-fashioned climbing rose now occupi…

• Blue Lily

  Pastel, Conservation Matboard, 13.5 x 14.5

• White Gentian

  Oil, Linen, 12 x 9. Only small tundra plants can survive the harsh wind and snow on St. Michaels Island, Alaska. In a vast and stark rolling landscape, each tiny plant is a world of its own — rich greens, the glow of th…

• Prickly Snow Cushions

  Pastel, Panel, 23 x 32

• Sunny Faces

  Pastel, Clayboard, 15.5 x 19.25

• Pink

  Pastel, Paper, 6.75 x 8

• Kaffir Lily

  Pastel, 18 x 24

• Shadows Playing

  Pastel, Panel, 16 x 20

• Afternoon Spread

  Pastel, Panel, 15.25 x 11.25. In 2004 I was selected to be Artist-in-Residence in Denali National Park. We stayed in the Murie cabin which is just off the main road with a grand view of the Polychrome mountains. We had…

• Warm and Fuzzy

  Watercolor, Paper, 22 x 17. In 1991 I was commissioned by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora to produce six paintings for a coffee table book they were producing to ra…

• The Curio

  Pastel, 17.50 x 23.25

• The Odd Couple # 1

  Pastel, Clayboard, 16 x 20

• The Odd Couple # 3

  Pastel, Clayboard, 16 x 20

• The Odd Couple # 2

  Pastel, Panel, 16 x 20

• The Odd Couple # 4

  Pastel, Panel, 16 x 20

• Skipper on Rex

  Watercolor, Paper, 18 x 11.75

• Birds of a Feather

  Pastel, Paper, 16 x 22. We built a pond specifically with the hope of attracting wildlife into our suburban yard. Early one spring a flock of cedar waxwings descended on our pond in mass. There were birds flying in all…