About
About
William E. Elston
William E. Elston is a Pacific Northwest artist best known for urban and rural landscape subjects. He has been exhibiting in the region for over 50 years. Mr. Elston has also been teaching painting and drawing in the Greater Seattle area for several decades. Currently he offers ongoing classes in painting en plein air, as well as occasional Zoom based critiques and presentations.
Recent Posts
The five most recent blog posts.
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Kingdome Sunset
Kingdome Sunset was painted in the early 1990s. The sunset/sky was painted en plein air from the roof of Sunny Arms Studios in Georgetown Seattle.
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Helipad - Lake Union - 1985
This chilly winter scene was painted from the knoll at Gasworks Park.
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Lake Union
My studio assistant and I were moving paintings into storage and we ran across this work that I'd forgotten about. It was painted on location when I was teaching plein air classes where Lake Union feeds into the ship canal, under the Aurora Bridge.
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Pergola: From Grand Central Arcade
This painting of the Pergola was the first of several depicting this popular architectural fixture in Pioneer Square, Seattle.
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Man With Cart
This painting was exhibited at Davidson Galleries in the early 1990s. It was done before the Pergola was destroyed by a truck in 2001. The current Pergola is a facsimile, rebuilt from scratch. I still have this work in my studio inventory. It is one of the few paintings left from this period.
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