Philosophy And Modern Art Painting

A local resident from Route 1, Bridgewater has put the beauty of the Shenandoah Valley scenery on canvas time after time. Apparently, this artist doesn't just carry around oils and pastels to mountains and cornfields to capture nature's beauty. She has collected cut out photographs from daily newspapers over the years and uses them to paint. To read other paintings articles make sure to visit photograph to oil painting.

According to this artist, the clippings let her put back white or black, and other old colors to her painting exactly the way she wants to. She further says that by clipping the pictures of animals and objects she could later use them to complete a bigger scenic picture. While telling that the huge mural stretching 15 by 4 ft on her family room is a product of this hobby of hers, she holds up the worn out newspaper with two millstones in it. The grey in the mill wheels blend perfectly together with the rustic millhouse and riverbank.

She also pictures parts of her masterpieces and gestures the large wall mural, even though she uses photos for detail in wood land animals, weatherboard building, and farm crops or equipment. Water is her only tool for this. But water is easy to paint with, because it dries out fast.

She displayed another newspaper photograph of a snow scene and said she plans to begin a painting from it very soon. Snow is quite fast to do and easy to paint. The only paintings in her home are the mural, and two other smaller scenes. She said that a large majority of her paintings have either been given away or sold. Obtain further advice on oil painting house portrait and the subject of paintings.

In Hagerstown, Maryland, there is a furniture store that helps her sell her stuff. Her friends and neighbors usually ask her to paint, and she never turns them down. So many orders come her way; she usually doesn't have time to paint them all. People like to wrap her paintings and send them out as Christmas presents so she gets more orders during this season.

The artist, who is a native of the Green mount section of Rockingham County, began painting when she was 13, when an old lady in the neighborhood gave her a few lessons. Every afternoon she paid 25 cents to the old lady for a lesson. Her mother made a small lightweight pallet using a drill and paring knife a long time ago, and she showed it. Although the old pallet was smeared with paint everywhere, a note was decoupage on it telling how it was made.

They also made a family room and decorated it with materials from their church that was torn down long ago. A wall in one face of the room is made entirely of glass, and as the sun light filters through, they could see the river by their house. She said that it was done to bring in the woods and the nature indoors.

While painting the mural, she was thinking of something that would fit the room perfectly. Right about the time she was three quarters to finishing the murals, the children pointed out her mistake with the too bright foliage and the reds, rusts and gold and the rustic family room. In order to direct the attention of her guest to the large mural on the family room, which encompasses all her love for painting, she decided not to add anymore pictures in her home.