HOW SOME MEMBER

ARTISTS 

DISPLAY THEIR WORK,

IN THEIR OWN HOMES

ANN S. LYNCH

 

ANN

SAUNDERSON 

JANICE WITTMER

DUSTAN KNIGHT

KATHY TANGNEY

 MARY RUEDIG

CLAUDETTE  GAMMON

MARILYN EIMON

WHEN IS A PAINTING FINISHED?

By JANICE WITTMER

Sometimes we artists become so involved with the subject that inspires us. We have difficulty deciding when it is complete.

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We also enjoy experimenting with different techniques and mediums that express the subject in a more interesting way. 

Watercolor and Gouache

I am exploring a few approaches that simplify and abstract the subject allowing the viewer to be more involved in interpreting the work.

Acrylic

I may still have a few more versions to try.











Using torn pieces of old or unsuccessful watercolor paintings, (yes that does happen!) I collaged or glued them onto a rigid board.

Then I added more Acrylic paint to develop more variation in color and value.
More color and glue.

Then more texture was added to the waterfall with an acrylic modeling medium.

Finished!

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MARCH MUSING

By Terry Heinzmann

It's March and those of us in New England are getting pretty tired of winter and it's cold temperatures. Not to mention snow and ice.

We start thinking about spring and the hot summer months to come. I thought I'd post a painting of watermelon, a real summer treat and one that just about everyone loves to eat.

I love this painting for its simplicity and vibrant colors.

Our neighbors have the most beautiful garden every year. They grow everything - flowers, vegetables, fruit as well as lovely perennials. 

I couldn't resist painting some of their blueberries a few years ago. 

BY MARY RUEDIG

SITTING IN A WINTER STUDIO 

"Bountiful Bouquet"

"Anniversary Bouquet"

DREAMING 

                    OF SPRING,

"Flower Snippets"

FLOWERS 

"Catching Spring"

AND SUNSHINE!

"Dreaming of Color"

THIS IS 

WHAT HAPPENS. 

Happy New Year Artists

2019 will be a great year

By DUSTAN KNIGHT

I won’t have time to paint today….I am going out of town and I will not be able to do any art…

You want me to do what -for how long?’   I haven’t been able to get to the studio in weeks!

My studio is a wreck- all the pipes burst and the mice ate my brushes.

We have all been there BUT that doesn’t have to halt our artistic flow.

I was thinking this morning, as I look ahead into the New Year, that I have a visual list of about ten new painting series just waiting to be explored.

Sometimes as I fall asleep or just as I wake up I get these ideas and I try to take a few minutes to focus on them and verbalize them - internally- .

(Some folks sketch them out on a pad of paper besides their bed).

I think this part of being an artist is important.

The time outside the studio thinking about ‘making’ and ‘seeing’ insures my time in front of my easel is much more productive.

I edit my ideas - revisiting them during a quiet moment of the busy day - while driving somewhere or waiting for something - I think about what the series is trying to get at. I imagine it with a different range of colors, or discard it as weak or put the idea into the ‘list for later’

When I get into the studio and put the most exciting ideas onto a canvas, the paintings flow, since I have already really started them weeks earlier my decision making is more confident.

Sometimes it’s so easy I realize that the best part of the creative process was the time I worked on the idea outside the studio.

Wishing my favorite artists a great 2019. Let’s make fabulous ART!

Disasters and Catastrophes

By Ann Saunderson

"Ice Melt"

I’ve been working on this series of paintings for the last year.

Initially I didn’t know it was about disaster. I was six months into it when one day I noticed that these paintings, whatever the medium, were indeed about manmade and natural disasters.

"Catastrophe"

During this time, my husband was running for state representative in our small town and so the news became central to our lives, well his life but…

"Firestorm"

I really struggle with Donald Trump. I try to understand, to make some sense out of what i going on in our country and the world with him in the White House.

"Damage Done"

 How did we find ourselves ‘here’, on what felt to me like the brink of, dare I say, disaster!

 

I remain very wary.

"Outbreak"

Forest fires.

"Urban Disaster"

Shootings.

"Aleppo"

Anti Semitism.

Racism.

Cyber wars.

Etc., Etc.

"Under Pressure"

I DO have a sense of humor.

MY life is good.

My biggest concern is what lies ahead for my three lovely little granddaughters.

REFLECTIONS

By Susan Levenson

After my retirement from three art related careers, I began painting in watercolors, something I had never done before.

I think the choice occurred because I love the freshness one derives from the transparencies that form where the paper does the work and the paint flows into one another.

Now that autumn has arrived, I watch the leaves turn and float into the air like the world is ever changing. This is part of life today and I feel that I am expressing its possibilities in my painting.

I love to paint. It allows me to lose myself into consciousness for long stretches of time, which seem no more than a few moments.

Painting allows a sense of accomplishment, where one paints for the love of it, not for selling or competition, but only for something that one owns into one’s self.

While on location in New Castle, NH, I saw three youngsters fishing in a small inlet.

I painted this busy scene in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. I loved the arrangement of pilings, the fishing architecture and the boat.

 The gardens of the Hamilton Estate in Berwick Maine, along the river.