Watercolor Painting - A Great Method To Express Yourself
A Bridgewater resident from route 1 has placed the wonders of Shenandoah Valley more than once on canvas. Having been painting for 36 years of her life, capturing landscape beauty isn't the only reason why she carries around easel and oils to mountains and cornfields. More than that, she uses pictures clipped from daily newspapers to paint her masterpieces.
This artist explains that being able to use black and white, as depicted in the clippings she collected, allows her to paint in an old fashioned way. She tells us more about her hobby of cutting out pictures of animals and objects, which then lets her arrange a more impressive scenic painting. She holds up a used newspaper clipping of two millstones and implies that she used it to paint the huge mural on her family room. The grey mill wheels blended into the rustic scene of a millhouse on a riverbank.
She emphasizes that the large wall mural visualizes the parts of her masterpieces, such as how she uses photographs to add detail to her wood land animal paintings, weatherboard buildings, and so on. She says she just puts the water in there. Because it goes fast, it's not hard to paint using water.
Soon, she will begin painting again with a snow scene from another cut out, which she displayed. The snow painting will be quick and easy. The only paintings in her home are the mural, and two other smaller scenes. But she said that she has already painted a lot of painting and sold them or given them away.
Her items are usually sold through a Hagerstown furniture dealer in Maryland. And she never turns down a request from neighbors and friends. The artist receives so many orders that she feels like she's buried underneath them. Because her paintings are really good to wrap in ribbons and give away as gifts, she gets more orders during Christmas.
She was only thirteen years old when first got into painting, thanks to a nice old lady in her neighborhood in Rockingham County. An afternoon lesson with the lady, back then, only cost her 25 cents. Using a drill and a paring knife, her mother made her a small pallet from a lightweight board. It was her first and she displayed it. To tell how it was made, a note was decoupage on the old pallet, even if it was smeared with paint all over.
Some six years ago, their church was brought down, but she was able to keep some of the keepsakes on the family room of their house. The glass wall that covers one face of the room completely lets you see the river near their house as the sunshine filters through it. She said they decided on the glass wall to bring the natural outdoors indoors.
When she was painting the large mural, her mind was telling her something was missing. Because the children didn't like the way the tithe painting shows fall's bright foliage in reds, gold and rusts, she had to redo the painting three quarters through completion. Since other paintings and the sunny den would most likely not get noticed, and that the attention of people will just go the mural, she decided that she would keep her house as it is.
This artist explains that being able to use black and white, as depicted in the clippings she collected, allows her to paint in an old fashioned way. She tells us more about her hobby of cutting out pictures of animals and objects, which then lets her arrange a more impressive scenic painting. She holds up a used newspaper clipping of two millstones and implies that she used it to paint the huge mural on her family room. The grey mill wheels blended into the rustic scene of a millhouse on a riverbank.
She emphasizes that the large wall mural visualizes the parts of her masterpieces, such as how she uses photographs to add detail to her wood land animal paintings, weatherboard buildings, and so on. She says she just puts the water in there. Because it goes fast, it's not hard to paint using water.
Soon, she will begin painting again with a snow scene from another cut out, which she displayed. The snow painting will be quick and easy. The only paintings in her home are the mural, and two other smaller scenes. But she said that she has already painted a lot of painting and sold them or given them away.
Her items are usually sold through a Hagerstown furniture dealer in Maryland. And she never turns down a request from neighbors and friends. The artist receives so many orders that she feels like she's buried underneath them. Because her paintings are really good to wrap in ribbons and give away as gifts, she gets more orders during Christmas.
She was only thirteen years old when first got into painting, thanks to a nice old lady in her neighborhood in Rockingham County. An afternoon lesson with the lady, back then, only cost her 25 cents. Using a drill and a paring knife, her mother made her a small pallet from a lightweight board. It was her first and she displayed it. To tell how it was made, a note was decoupage on the old pallet, even if it was smeared with paint all over.
Some six years ago, their church was brought down, but she was able to keep some of the keepsakes on the family room of their house. The glass wall that covers one face of the room completely lets you see the river near their house as the sunshine filters through it. She said they decided on the glass wall to bring the natural outdoors indoors.
When she was painting the large mural, her mind was telling her something was missing. Because the children didn't like the way the tithe painting shows fall's bright foliage in reds, gold and rusts, she had to redo the painting three quarters through completion. Since other paintings and the sunny den would most likely not get noticed, and that the attention of people will just go the mural, she decided that she would keep her house as it is.
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