Maine Landscape Paintings: Treasuring Lessons from Hiroshige

Maine Landscape Paintings: Treasuring Lessons from Hiroshige

Hiroshige teaches me about Maine Landscape Paintings. As I work on a new gold leaf screen, I become inspired by the swirls in the gold and the texture in the substructure. The piece is of the outbound road from Schoodic. For 7 short miles we preserve beauty even if it...

Recreating a Scene-Pastel

Recreating a scene seen on the fly… I am trying to recreate something I saw last fall when I could not stop to sketch or even take color notes. Day 2 is spent building layers of depth in the sky, choosing specific colors to help leaves pop, testing colors for...