The Columbia River Gorge – Casa Araceli Art Scene Kit

From misty waterfalls to quiet bridges, each scene invites you into the Columbia River Gorge—Mount Hood beyond the trees, Vista House above the river, and cliffs bathed in warm light. With every brushstroke, you transform detailed illustrations into artwork that feels uniquely yours.

What Is It?

The Columbia River Gorge is a creative painting experience featuring six original Columbia River Gorge illustrations for artists of all skill levels. The linework is already in place, so you can begin creating right away and focus on the most enjoyable parts: choosing colors, building texture, and adding your own painting style.

When complete, your artwork becomes a personal piece you’ll be proud to frame, display, or give as a thoughtful handmade gift.

What’s Included?

Each Casa Araceli Art Scene box includes everything you need to paint all six scenes:

• Six individual Columbia River Gorge illustrations
• A wooden palette filled with artist quality natural clay paint
• Sealer
• Paintbrushes

Why You’ll Love It

The kit is designed to be inspiring and easy to enjoy! Because the artwork is already composed, you can start immediately!

Each scene offers a fresh creative opportunity, from painting mossy cliffs and forested slopes to layering waterfalls, river mist, wildflowers, mountains, and bold skies.

Beloved Gorge landmarks, cascading water, evergreen forests, stone overlooks, and Pacific Northwest details make every scene a pleasure to explore.

Each design is printed on its own sheet of 200gsm archival watercolor paper, selected to provide a substantial, art-quality surface for painting, preserving, and display.

The paint is versatile! It’s a high quality, highly pigmented artist clay paint that can be thinned to a watercolor, left and used as is. mixed with an acrylic medium, or used drying artist oils!

With quality materials, beautiful presentation, and six complete projects in one box, The Columbia River Gorge makes a memorable gift for a budding artist, a seasoned painter, or anyone who loves the Columbia River Gorge, nature, creativity, and hands-on activities.

How to Use

Painted thin, it washes like watercolor. Painted thick, it builds texture like acrylic. Mixed with oils, it becomes an oil painting. Add an acrylic medium or seal it when you’re done!

The thick cotton watercolor paper is also well suited for markers and colored pencils, giving you even more ways to personalize each design and explore different creative techniques.

Caring for Your Finished Artwork

Once your artwork is completely dry, display it in a frame or add it to your art journal.

As with any original artwork, keep it dry and away from harsh elements. Dust the surface gently with a clean, soft, dry cloth.

About the Designs

Each art scene is exclusively drawn by ChicaTiza for Casa Araceli. This delightful collection includes:

Latourell Falls descending from tall basalt cliffs beside a winding forest path.

Multnomah Falls flowing through deep green forest behind its iconic arched footbridge.

The wooden footbridge at Oneonta Gorge crossing clear water between mossy rock walls and wildflowers.

A view of Mount Hood from Larch Mountain, framed by evergreens, distant ridges, and small meadow flowers.

Vista House standing above the Columbia River at Crown Point beneath a warm sky.

A sweeping Gorge view bringing together Mount Hood, waterfalls, forested cliffs, the river, and Vista House.

Weight & Dimensions

9 × 12 × 1 inches
Weight: 18oz