Monday, August 1, 2016

   Why DO I Paint?
By Betsy Janeway
 What a good question! I paint partly because I'm a record-keeper, a journal writer. A journal with sketches is livelier than one without.
 I paint only with watercolor just because it's risky: I can't predict how it will turn out; watercolor has a mind of its own, and is very backpackable.
 I paint to record a place or an event and I love to mix colors. I am happiest outdoors, I never paint in my studio.
 Having written a monthly nature column for decades, for my town paper, keeps me looking, studying, and recording local wildlife.
 Right now I'm studying the miniature world of mosses, through a magnifier. I think I'll never run out of topics!
Some of my paintings:
   
      Our swimming hole in the Blackwater River runs through my little town of Webster, NH, and is where I swim every day all summer, rain or shine. Today I saw a beaver and the brilliant cardinal flowers are in bloom on the river bank. 


      A Maine coast island is where I often paint: landing at the dock, here's our view.
 
    Our son is sailing to the mooring at the island, with the Camden Hills in the background. 



 

A study of blue jays out of the kitchen window in winter.

1 comment:

  1. oh isn't this just fabulous!! toodles Kathy

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